The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-13
CANNON, ALDRICH AND
BALLINGER WILL RETIRE


tigating committee. The committee "a
70 meet early In September. they Will
bring In q verdict OF not guilty by q
vote OF 2 to 8. after which Secretary
baIiinger Will gracefully quilt.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock. loss
standing by several revelations at ts-
ballingsr-P hchot investigation. He
VIII probably be relegated exclusively
&c directing the Affairs OF the post.
ONCE department and Senator Crane
VIII hereafter be relied upon a. the
political arbiter Of the administration.
The president has permitted his adj
visers. chief Of whom IL Senator w.
Murray Crane. Of Massachusetts. to
have q free hand. Senator Crane has
already presented the matter to SEQ
rotary Ballinger and Senator Aldrich.
The Rhode Island statesman has al
ready consented to retire from the
senate. Secretary Balllnger has de-
Phied that he will retire. but II Is given
out on excellent authority that his po-
litical destruction. together with that
OF Speaker Cannon, has been decided
upon.
Mr.. Ballinger has lost practically
all his personal fortune In defending
himself from the attacks upon him. II
In said that one attorney fee alone In
the congressional investigation was
$4,000.
II 10 reported at Beverly that In
Mr. Ballinger, Speaker Cannon and
Senator Aldrich the insurgents have
more material for their battles with
the regulars than In anything the
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ed to do. II was said In some quar-.
tiers that the discouraging reports In
Kansas and Iowa are to be attributed
to the fact that the insurgents harped
much upon the connection between
the administration and these three
men. With their active participation
In public affairs at an end, the new
leaders say, the insurgents will have
not leg to stand upon. and the Dem
ocrats will lose ground Immediately.
Neither Secretary BallinSsr. Sena-
tor Aldrich nor Speaker Cannon found
his elimination agreeable Senator
Aldrich announced his retirement
months ago, but there was q feeling
that he might run again just the same
IL pressed to do So This is what the
west thought, according to informa-
ton that came to Beverly. And on
that fact the west pondered much, not
to the advantage of the Republican
party. Secretary Ballinger has al.
ways declared that he would not re-
tire. But both he and Senator Aid
rich were persuaded. so the story
goes. to sacrifice themselves for the
good Of the party
Speaker Cannon, by his speeches In
Kansas, some In touch with affairs
say, helped the insurgents gain a vic
tory. That fact perhaps was the last
straw that 'spurred those who are try
ing to rejuvenate the party to tell Mr..
Cannon that he must not run for
speaker again. II Ia said on behalf of
Uncle Joe that he has already told
close friends that he was not to be
considered In the contest for the
speakership II the next house goes
Republican.
II IL not admitted In Beverly that
Mr.. Cannon will even be a candidate
for the speakership. Rep. Mckinley,
Of Illinois, close friend of Mr.. Can
non, and chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign committee,
was asked here the other day II he
thought Mr.. Cannon could be elected
to the chair again.
81 have not heard that he will be a
candidate was the significant reply.