The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-09
The Pinchot Matter Has Resulted in
Serious Complication in
the Republican Party
Ranks.
ROOSEVELT VS.. TAFT
Back From Elba Story is Recalled
From the Skeleton Shelf and
Painted Shadow
Appears.
rGate CITY Leased wire Service

IGate City Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Dismissed
from his office of chief forester by
President Taft, on the ground of in
subordination, Clifford Pinchot, origin
ator of the Roosevelt conservation pol
icy, and bosom friend of the ex-presi-
dent, today appealed his case to the
American people.
Administration leaders today decld-
ed to make another night for house
members Of Ballinger's investigation
committee by the speaker, instead OF
their election by the house itself. The
senate committee on public lands vot- I
ed today in favor of the original reso-
luton, which gives the speaker the
power Of selecting the house COM
mitteemen.
T These developments in the famous
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy are ad- |
mitted tonight to have created the
most serious political crisis since the
civil war
They have painted again across the
political sky the shadow of Theodore
Roosevelt as possible opponent of
/ the Taft administration and recalled
from the skeleton shelf ''the back
from Elba" sSory with new and omt-
nous variations.
While the chief figure in the con-
troversy would make no statement for
| publication today, Pinchot did give
4 out for publication a stenographic re-
+ port of two addresses he made to his
+ former associates on taking his official
/ leave of them, and in his remarks Is
written plainly a def" to the Taft
/ administration, an appeal to the peo-
pie to uphold him as the defender OF
the Roosevelt conservation policy and
i a pledge to carry his fight to the
country on this issue.
This some political observers think
is the first step in the formation OF
a new political party to advance "the
new patriotism of conservation and
equal opportunity of which Theodore
| Roosevelt will be the political sponsor
and Pinchot perhaps the presidential
/ candidate.
THE fight must go on" said Pinchot
to his former chiefs OF division, "and
you are the men who must carry 1t
on" and again, Il am going to stay
with this conservation development,
wherever I may be, want you to un-
derstand that my interest will not
fag.'
That the, political aspect of the sit
uation is far more important than any
i of the merits of the controversy itself
and that President Taft has been
placed in most embarrassing posi-
ton is the opinion of practically ever
one in Washington.
Had the episode been planned from
political viewpoint, it could scarcely
have been more cleyerly worked.
Some of Pinchot's friends are open
" declaring tonight that the former
forester outgeneraled the president
They say that Pinchot prepared the
Dolliver letter with a due appreciation
of its consequence and that he pur-
: posely laid his head ON the block. Al
though Pinchot was dismissed be,
cause re wrote the Dolliver letter, his
| friends point to the fact that the de
: nosed official stands therein as de-
: fender of athe property of the peo-
$ ple against the interests. His
: speeches to his former official associ
ates, today, in which he emphasized
Q this same position and ignored the
9 question of impropriety of sending the
T letter. give him this issue to stand
: on Pinchot is chairman of the join,
committee on conservation, which re
placed the old Roosevelt executive ma
9 tional conservation commission, put
n out of business by Representative
Tawney {Rep.. Mimi and he VIII
9 make the offices of this committee ir
Washington his headquarters for some
t, time The organization of the join,
r committee gives Pinchot at once {
5, nerfected machine with which to pu
g out his propaganda.
TGate CITY Leased Wire Service.1
e PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. S.-Thirty
e miles hack of White Salmon, Wash.
e in the mountains of Klickitat county
e Touis r. Claws. the deposed chief oi
t. the division of the general land office
Il was found tonight by correspondent
n of the United Press. CLAWS was 10
It Gated at Timber Valley, at the home
Il Of Rev selden Ewing, isolated from
c the world.
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