The San Francisco call., 1910-07-20

meeting and a conservation meeting
il was a republican meeting in name
and a pan-partisan meeting in fact
Men quite as well known for their ac-
tivities in the democratic party as
were other men known for their work
in the republican party applauded
Pinchot. his conservation policies, his
advocacy of Johnson's nomination, his
plea for the growth of insurgency and
his declaration that insurgency knew
- no party lines.
JEERS FOR BALLINGER
The big crowd was seriously enthu-
siastic and earnestly in accord with
the avowed policies and purposes Of
al the speakers. 1t jeered Pinchot's
one indirect reference to Secretary of
the Interior Ballinger and his reference
TO NJ II. de Young as enthusiastically
as il welcomed Pinchot and Johnson
and as 1t Endorsed Chairman c. II. Bent
ley's declaration that a good republican
must first be a good citizen and that
none other had right 10 use the name
republican, much less attempt to die
tate the policies of the republican
party. Not the least enthusiastic ap-
plause was that evoked by Daniel A.
Ryan, who spoke of Pinchot as the
friend OF san Francisco and an advo-
cate of San Francisco's fight for the
Hetch Hetchy water supply
PinchOt warmly advocated the NOM
ination and election of Johnson. He
said that he believed that the Lincoln
Roosevelt league candidate represented
the wave of insurgency sweeping over
the country and that the eyes Of the
insurgents Of the nation We're on Cali
fOrnia. Pinchot vigorously arraigned
the Southern Pacific company's politi-
cal bureau. whose interference, he said,
had promoted dishonesty in congress
and corruption in this city and had
hampered the graft prosecution.
Pinchot made but one reference to
Theodore Roosevelt If his audience
expected him to say that he had been
sent to California by Roosevelt it was
disappointed. He earnestly advocated
the nomination of Johnson, but. as was
10 have been expected, the burden of
his speech was conservation and a re-
cital of the fight made by the special
interests to despoil the people Of the
nations natural resources.
REFERS TO "RESIGNATIoN,
He declared that the first principle
Of conservation was development. He
took direct issue with the representa-
lives of the interests who contend that
conservation means the despoiling of
one locality for the benefit of another.
He evoked a laugh and jeers for Bal
inger by saying, Il know, and l know
because before what some gentlemen
are pleased euphemistically 10 call my
resignation. ] was chief of the forestry
service"
Hiram W. Johnson, Lincoln Roosevelt
league candidate for governor, was
given an enthusiastic reception. Like
Pinchot, he was cheered and cheered
gain. Johnson declined to make
more than a brief speech, which he de-
sCribed as a message from the state of
California. He said;s
4 am not going to talk to you. / am
just going. TO tell you that it is a bully
fight still. The fight is won. You have
heard a great patriot and great pa
triOtic address. May his words remain
with you in this and in future fights
We are going to win and we are going
TO kick out of this government William
J.. Herrin and the Southern Pacific
railroad"
ROWELL ALSO SPEAKS
Charles H Bentley presided Beside
Pinchot and Johnson the speakers were
Chester H Rowell of Fresno president
Of the Lincoln Roosevelt league, and
Daniel A. Ryan, member of the state
executive committee. The theater was
filled long before o'clock
The stage party consisted of 200 vice
presidents, including Congressman E. A
Hayes of San Jose. Before the speak
ers' party arrived the police had re-
fused admittance to several hundred
persons. The insistence Of those unable
10 get into the theater interrupted
Pinchot's speech and a band was hur-
ried into City Hall square to hold them
until Pinchot was enabled to speak to
them.
The speakers party. which apeared
on the stage shortly after o'clock
consisted of Clifford Pinchot, Daniel A.
Ryan, c. H. Bentley, Byron Mauzy,
Paul Bancroft. George Crothers, f. G.
Sanborn, G. II. Won der Mehden and
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