The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-03-25
THEY ARE |LLAT EASE
REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON
FEAR LOSS OF CONGRESS.
Will Hold a Conference; Believe That
Unless There Is Change in the
Situation the Republican Party
Will Go Down to Defeat in No
vember Elections; Pinch0t's Trip
to Europe to Meet Roosevelt.

Washington, March % The norten.
tOus political developments Of the past
few weeks and the general discomfort
with the federal administration tina.
appears to exist in many states will
form the subject of party conference
soon TO be held by the Republican
leaders in Washington. The leaders
generally are disturbed over the pres
ent chaotic condition of affairs. and
they make no cOncealment OF their be-
lief that unless there is change in
the situation the G.. o. F. will go down
to defeat i'm the November elections
Disquieting advices were received
from three different sources.
First-lt became known that Clifford
Pinchot, the depOsed forester. had
sailed for Europe Saturday to confer
with Theodore Roosevelt. The appoint,
ment was made as a result Of cable
gram received by Mr.. PinchOt imme.
diately upon the arrival of Colonel
Roosevelt in Khartum.
Second-Announcem was made
that James r. Garfield, who has been
mentioned as Republican candidate
for governor Of Ohio, will not seek the
honor. but will come out in a speech
within the next few days attacking the
Taft administration. and declaring
that he will not run or platform
which will embody The Taft princi-
pies instead of the Roosevelt policies"
'Third-Eugene N. Foss, a Demo-
crat, running for congress in the Four.
teenth Massachusetts district on a
platform that denounced the Aldrich,
Payne tariff law and Cannonism. de-
feated W. r. Buchanan, his Republic
an opponent, by substantial major
ity.
Pinchot Trip Significant.
A good deal of significance is at
tached to Mr.. PinchOt's trip to Eu
rope. 1t is recalled that some months
ago. when the back from Elba"
movement was suggested in the Mid
die West, proposal was made that
Mr. Pinchot should &c selected ae tho
emissary of those who desired that
Colonel Roosevelt should be informed
Immediately upon his return to civ
ilization that his successor had not
attempted to 'clnch" the policies in
augurated by the previous administra-
ton.
Just what developments, if any. will
follow the conference of Colonel
Roosevelt and Mr.. Pinchot at Naples
is matter of conjecture.
From Republican standpoint
things have been going from bad to
worse of late in Ohio, the presidents
home state. The announcement. there
fore, that Mr.. Garfield, secretary of
the interior in the Roosevelt admins
tration, purposes denouncing Presi-
dent Taft il public speech excited 4
good deal OF interest.
The result in the Fourteenth Mas
sachusetts district came as a shock to
the Republican leaders. .Massachu-
sets Republicans explained that Blu
chanan was defeated because he was
unpopular in the district and that
FOss' triumph should not be accepted
as ymptomatic of public sentiment in
the state en- the question of Cannon
ism.
1t is generally recognized, even by
friends of the speaker, that Cannon
ism, so called, is still an issue. preg
nant of danger. despite the fact that
the Cannon organization was humbled
in the house last week