The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-30
P|KCH0T WANTS
TO Be GOVERNOR
Dismissed Chief Forester'a
|. Friends Think He Can
Wear Hughes Hat

NEW YOrK, July 3V.-GlnOr0 Kin.
chot, former chief forester under the
Theo. Roosevelt has been placed up
on the list Of possible candidates for
the Republican nomination for COVER
! nor Of New York, and Theo. Roosevelt
Yves asked to support his candidacy.
Although the ex-president is care
fully suppressing everything which
In any way resembles an outspoken
declaration in favor Of any candidate,
and although he has been issuing
statements to that effect Of late, he
showed great interest in this --latest
boom and 1t is believed that he does
not look unkindly upon 1t.
DR.. Samuel McCune Lindsay, form
er commissioners of education Of Por-
to Rico and now professor Of
Columbia university, is the man who
! launched the new boom. He had q
long and confidential talk today with
Col. Roosevelt and left with the air
of a man we'll pleased with the turn
, things had taken. His auditor list
ened with the greatest interest, but
explained that he could make no pub
lie comment.
DR.. Lindsay explained that, al
though Mr.. Pinchot has often been
absent from New York state in re-
cent years. he has always retained
his legal residence in this city, and
has regularly voted here. The fact
that he was talked of at one time as
a possible candidate for governor Of
Pennsylvania was based, said DR..
Lindsay, on the false idea that Mr..
Pinchot's legal residence was at Mil
ford, Pa, where he has q country
place. DR.. Lindsay is q close friend
Of both Col. Roosevelt and Mr.. Pin
chot. In common with other friends
he has been working quietly on the
Pinchot boom, for some time. and first
suggested to Mr.. Pinchot himself the
! possibility that he might run. No
definite answer. he said. was return
! ed.
Col. Roosevelt was told today that,
in the opiuion of Mr.. Pinchot's
I! friends, he could draw support from
(! the same sources which had given
power to Mr.. Hughes in past cam
paigns. Mr.. Pinchott is represented
as in sympathy with the general
trend of the Hughes, progressive poll
cy, and 1t is pointed out that since he
has an ample private fortune, he
would be 9ble to meet the expenses
which the Office entails. q considera-
ton said to be largely responsible for
the decision of William Loeb, Jr., COL
lector Of the port Of New. York, not to
become q candidate for. the nomina-
tion.
Mr.. Pinchot is now on his way east
from California, and on his return
will have another conference with his
former chief, Col. Roosevelt. DR..
Lindsay, will tell him then that as
governor Of this state, he could con-
tinue the work Of conservation with
which his name has become associat-
ed in national policies. It. will be
represented that there remains a
large field for work which the feder-
al government can not undertake,
but which the governor of New York.
as q member Of the house Of gover-
nors. could forward with command
ing presence.
Mr.. Lindsay defined Clifford Pinchot
as an insurgent with difference.
"Mr. Pinchot," he said, "is an insur-
gent so far ~ conservation goes, and
presumably his sympathies lie with
the insurgents on other questions;
but he cannot be classed as . full
fiedged insurgent He is q progress
sive. I,
'The personal relations 8 between
President Taft and Mr.. Pinchot have
Always been pleasant. and they were
not interrupted by their differences
over the conduct Of the interior de-
partment. We who favor his candi-
dacy do not consider that his nomina.
ton could be taken as an aftront 10 |
the national administration.