Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
OPPOSED CHIEF
DECLARES FIGHT
IS ONLY BEGUN
Tremendous Ovation
Given Forester by
Federal Aids
NATION is AROUSED
Death Knell of Party Said
to Be Sounded-Lead-
erS Are Resentful
NATION is AROUSED
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VIZ AsHINGTON. d. c., Jan. g.
w President Tafrs dismissal OF
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot
was the all-absorbing topic in WASH
ington, today, and from remarks made
by the deposed forester during a tre-
mendous farewell ovation rendered to
him by the clerks and assistants OF
the forestry bureau it is quite clear
that Pinchot considers his fight with
the Taft Ballinger Cannon Aldrich
combine only just begun.
Thousands of kilograms poured in on
the deposed forester today, men high
in public and commercial life express
ing their confidence in his integrity
and hoping for his success in the great
political battle which is generally con-
sidered to mean the life or death of
Republicanism, and which already has
spelled the political ruin of President
Taft and presaged the reelection OF
Roosevelt or a Democrat, according to
the leading insurgents and their sym
pathizers.
Pinchot made it clear in his address
to the officers of the forest service and
the clerks of that bureau that his bat
tie with the secretary of the interior
and the administration was far from
ended.
Withholds Plans
Declining to express a personal opin-
ion about his removal from office, ne
also refused to discuss his plans Tor
the future.
Mr. Pinchot arrived at his office
early in order to arrange his affairs
and withdraw as quickly as possible.
A meeting of the officials who had
been under him had already been ar
ranged for 1915 o'clock, Iand three
quarters of an hour later the clerical
force of the forest service arrived in
his office to say good by.
IN addressing those with whom re
had been most intimately associated
Mr. Pinchot declared he wanted them
to remember first that they must never
forget that "the fight in which you are
engaged for the safe ana uecsne
handling of our timber lands Is m
finitely larger than any mans per-
sonal presence or personal future
Fight to Go On
Continuing, he said:
"This fight must go on, and you are
the men who must carry it on. stay
bv the work; hold fast to the stand-
ards we have set together; never ale
low yourselves to forget that you are
serving a much greater master than
the department of agriculture, or even
the administration"
In addressing the clerks Mr.. Pinchot
commended them to maintain the
service at the same standard and TO
press along the same lines, and never
To forget they ere the servants Oh
the people of the United States, re-
sponsible to them and to them alone
II don't want you to get the idea
and this is my personal end of it--that
because L am going out of the service
am in any way losing my interest III
it, or my touch with 1t, or with you
he said.
conservation is my life work. in the
government service or out of 1t. And
this Is the most important piece or
conservation work there is. Therefore,
propose to know about it, to follow
the work you are all doing, TO keep
NV interest in it, and so (. as that IS
in an way possible to keep in touch
with it and my knowledge of 1t.
Hidden Meaning
None of the officials would discuss
the real and hidden meaning of Mr..
Pinchot's declaration. His friends like
wis. refused to discuss his words, al
though it was generally conceded they
breathed defiance and were in the ma
ture of an announcement that the Tor
mer chief forester regarded himself as
guardian of what in the recent con-
troversy had been called the interests
Of the people,
Echoes of Pinchots dismissal were
heard among White House callers to-
day, and n number of those frankly
broa, he'd the subject. The president
was not averse to discussing the mat
ter along the same lines laid down ia
his letter to Mr.. Pinchot.
He is reported to have said with ern-
phasis that even If such situation
could be conceived as his action OF
Yesterday necessitating his departure
from the White House today he would
not have done otherwise.
Among the presidents callers We're
Senators Flint, Lodge, Bourne ana
nearly a score of representatives.
AS to the action of the house yester-
day in amending the Ballinger- Pinchot
inquiry resolution, Mr.. Taft expressed
no concern.
Wants to Know All
'I want the investigation to be full
and thorough he said to one of his
callers. land IL there is anything in all
this that do not know, l want 1t to
come out"
Among some of the congressional
visitors to the White House there was
an impression that Pinchot would play
an even more prominent part in the
congressional inquiry under present
circumstances than If he were still in
the government employ. 1t was re-
ported that he might appear practi-
calIy in the role of prosecutor
senator Bourne was one Of the few
callers at the White House who could
be quoted.
.'In poker terms" he said, sit looks
to me like case of bluff, call and
a rake down. There was nothing but
bluff all the time"
The regular Republican organization
of the house will not rest under the
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