Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-07-19
TRYING TO PUT
BRAKES ON THE
P|NCHOT IDEA
Minnesota Republicans Are
Beginning to Fear the Effect
of Speeches at the COnyen-
ton in September,

Mr.. James r. Garfield and
others OF the Back From Elba CLUB,
who are forming a new party 70
1efeat the Taft administration. have
stored up a lot OF trouble for the
northwest which they are going to
snbottIe at the conservation congress
which meets in St Paul on Septem-
Der 6 TO 9.
Mr.. PinchOt's speech in ST. Paul
before the Roosevelt club is too re-
tent to be forgotten. In that speech |
ne denounced the republican party 4
rom President Taft down as utterly |
Unworthy the support of decent men.
Il also was announced at the meet |
ing that the event presaged the for
nation OF a new party opposed to the
republicans and democrats alike. the
leaders of which would be Messrs.
Theodore Roosevelt. Clifford Pinchot
and James r. Garfield. 1t is believed
that the meeting of the conservation
congress win launch the new party
and that opposition TO regular republi-
cans will be so strongly voiced as
10 make Minnesota doubtful this fall.
The Minnesota republican leaders
themselves are to blame. When they
came to Washington some months
ago to ask that the conservation con-
gress be held In St Paul Senator
Knut E. Nelson, who as chairman Of
the BallingerFfnchot investigation
committee, had a clear insight into
the lengths TO which Mr.. Pinchot and
Mr.. Garfield were willing to go to
discredit he Taft administration. eau
TONED the delegation.
He said that the leaders of the
movement would stop at nothing TO
ruin the republican party If they
could not run it; that they would
pack the program and bring on the
platform the only antf-administration
speakers, and that the effect was
bound to be bad unless some means
could be found 10 Offset the anti-re-
publican arguments.
Mr.. Nelson knew what he was talk
| ing about. as is shown by subsequent
developments, but the delegation
would not listen 10 him. AS a result
81. Paul got the caonservahonists,
aud now the republican leaders have
/ learned that Mr.. Pinchot has ar
ranged for a series OF speeches along
he line of his opposition to Presi-
dent Taft which will make the air Of
the Northwest fairly sizzle.
This fact has aroused Governor
iAdolph o. Eberhart. who is running
at the head of the republican state
ticket. He sees that such a program
as the hotheads of the Back From
Elba club" have prepared will have
bad effect on the party. especially
T. IS the meeting comes about the tim'
that nominations for congress ant
the legislature are in order. TIT
D governors alarm was expressed in
D news dispatch from St. Paul today
( IN which II was said that the COVER
a nor had asked for a conference wit
I Mr.. Pinchot and that Mr.. Pincho
c was going to meet the governor i
Chicago next week. but that he ha
e replied that the program could nc
be changed.
Colonel Roosevelt viii be one {
The speakers at ST. Paul. AS NJ
Pinchot and Mr.. Garfield both az
n deeply interested in the candidacy {
4 Senator LaFollette for reelection
e Wisconsin 1t is expected that Mr..
s T alette will be one Of the speal
is q Anyway, the program is 5
a strongly anti-republican that GovernC
y Eberhart will do everything in h
l. rover to make It more conserv
tive.
Meanwhile there is lively specul
N tion as to where the constant har
n mering at President Taft that NJ
Il Roosevelt has been encouraging fro
~ the insurgents will lead the priva
m citizen Of Oyster Bay. He is gettiI
er war on Mr.. Taft by promising
er speake for Senator Beveridge, and
81 he joins in making the st. Paul co
a' ventson an anu-administration demo
stration serious injury is likely
follow, and he will have to take Il
nj responsibility.
N Rooseveit's friends that when
re II was the understanding OF Colon
Iy. came back he would try to help al
OF rot to injure the republican part
Thus far he has done nothing 70 he
nd Il II Is believed here that nothi
oy that Mr.. Roosevelt can do can chan
70 The situation either in Wisconsin
Indiana. and the regulars say n
buth Senators La Folette and Bev
.ha Ilge will be defeated On the otl
ma hand. Senator Beveridge says that
the diana safely Is republican while s
'so- ator Ia Toilette n confident OF az
ous winning fse senatorial nominate
ank But beyond the strength OF Z
Ca candidate is the serious view
sen pressed here by the espousal Of
per cause of Messrs. Pinchot. CARR
5everidge and la Toilette only
a serve to drive him and the Taft
- ninistration widely apart His
Bda- cision to speak for Mr.. BeveridgC
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