Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-12
ROOSEVELT WILL
STAND BY PINCHOT
Expected to Take Sides
With His Close Friend.

washington, D. c., April 11.-'aTheo-
dore Roosevelt will back up Clifford
Pinchot and the policies for which
Pinchot stands in natural conservation
and will do it to the limit, is the
statement made by a well-known Re-
publican member of Congress from
the West. He has seen a letter which
has been received in Washington by a
Congressional friend of Colonel Roose-
welt and says that no one reading this
letter would no longer entertain
doubt as to where the former Presi-
dent stands in the Pinchot-BalHnger
controversy.
The recipient of the letter does not
care to make the communication pub
lie now. The gentleman who gave the
information expresses the belief, how
ever, that when Mr.. Roosevelt lands
upon American soil, he will not in
dulge either in sweeping indorse-
ment or a general denunciation of his
successor in the Presidency. He be-
lieyes it is the purpose of Colonel
Roosevelt to pick out specific PROPOSE
tons for approval or criticism, and
that, through a series of utterances, he
will indicate the line of cleavage be-
tween himself and his successor in
such way that the country will be
able to learn in unmistakabIe terms of
their respective points of difference
Mr.. Roosevelt can do this without
placing himself in the attitude of MAX
ing general attack upon the Republic
can party. He believes Mr.. Roosevelt
will resist every attempt to draw di-
rect statements from him as to wheth-
er he indorses or opposes the present
Administration in it's entirety, and
that he has no idea of covering the
field in a general statement.
Heney Also to See Teddy.
Another highly interesting develop
ment of the political situation today is
the disclosure of the fact that Francis
/ Heney, who became famous as a
prosecutor of grafters in San Francis
CO, and has been for some time one of
the closest personal friends of Mr.
Roosevelt, will sail for Europe on
April IS. While the stated reason for
this journey is a long needed rest from
hard work, there are good reasons for
believing that Mr.. Heney will see Mr..
Roosevelt while in Europe, and if this
meeting takes place, it is pretty likely
to result in a discussion of Ballinger,
Pinchot and conservatism.
Mr. Heney arrived in Washington
Saturday and called at the White
House and upon Attorney-General
Wickersham He is in charge of the
land fraud cases in Oregon, and the
Attorney-General told him he would
continue to have free rein in the
handling of these matters. When the
resignation of Clifford Pinchot was
followed by the decision to have a
Congressional investigation of the
CLAWS charges, friends of the former
chief forester were anxious to have
Mr.. Heney come on to Washington as
chief counsel for Mr.. Pinchot. Tele-
grams were sent with this object in
sight. Mr.. Heney declined to give up
the prosecution of the Oregon land
frauds, and other lawyers were engag-
ed for Mr.. Pinchot But Mr.. Heney is
an enthusiastic admirer and partisan
of Mr. Pinchot's, and his known rela-
tons add to the zest with which his
proposed trip to Europe is being dis
cussed. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt
looks upon Attorney Heney as a "big
man" and considers him an ideal sort
of American. So that it is very inter-
esting to know that he is going to
Europe at this time when both the
former chief forester and the EXPIRES
ident are on the verge of meeting.