The San Francisco call., 1910-04-09

be entitled, as a reward for their
hafdsh1ps and sacrifice, to a certain
share of all minerals found in the
country-that is to say. one claim
each? Now suppose Robert j. COL
Iier. owner of this paper, should. on
4 pleasure trip to Alaska, accIdene
ally learn of a mountain of coal OF
he highest quality. He has tests
IF the coal made and finds that
Monte Cristo's mountain is a baga-
ellie compared to this?
He then goes back to New York and
secures the names of the employees
of his business establishment and the
names of his kinfolk by blood ana
by marriage to the fourth and fifth
remove He sends back to Alaska
one man with power OF ATTORNEY
and relatives, who, by the way,
never bulge from their homes. This
attorney in fact locates all the
claims on the mountain for the sole
beneht OF Mr. Collier. Would not
Mr. Ballinger. if he were an honest
government official, upon learning
of these facts. fight these claims,
and each of them, inch by inch?
And If he did not fight them, could
there be any other possible infer
ence than that as a public official
he was standing in with a private
snap among his Notwithstanding
in with the game of allowing one
man to steal the billions that be-
longed OF right to all the people,
while at the same time he doubled
and trebled the value of his prize
by cornering one of the prime ne
cessitfeS of the people"
That is Just what has gone on in
Alaska. The Cunningham group is
but part of the grab. Look at the
record and see.
After coupling Ballinger's name
with those of certain Oregon and
Washington politicians, the article
continues:
Los Angeles, the home of Harry
White and DIR. William A. Edwards.
is also the home of Senator Frank
P. Flint, member of the Ballinger-
Pinchot Investigating committee
Harry White, as well as other close
is prominent in what is known as
the dominant political machine
Senator Flint owes his election to
this influence and publicly acknowl-
edged it at the time. Pasadena,
suburb of Los Angeles, is the home
of Congressman James McLachlan.
another of the White group of
claimants. Governor Gillett of Cal
ifornia and his wife also own claims
in the White group. Governor Gill
lett appointed Harry White Califor-
MAS commissioner to the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition at Seattle.
White and Gillett are about to or
ganize another group of Alaska
California is another claimant in
the White group.
Oscar Lawler, also a resident OF
Los Angeles, and member of the
same political circle. is the law of
ficer of the interior department un-
der Ballinger. He it is who passes
legal opinion on all matters in con-
nection with the interior depart
ege OF Senator Frank P. Flint.
LAWYERS former law firm and Sena-
tor Flint's former law firm in Los
Angeles have recently consolidated.
and on the door of the Offices of
this new firm appear side by side
the names of Oscar Lawler and
Frank p. Flint. In Washington,
Lawler is credited with having been
responsible for many of the mis-
statements of fact contained in
President Taft's letter of Septem-
Der 13, 1909, embarrassing Ballin-
ger. At any rate this F'lintLawler-
claimant situation is pretty one
indeed.
general managers in the west of the
Taft campaign who reported in per
son to c. p. Taft as the campaign
progressed. He also collected a
Former Governor Miles c. Moore of
Washington, another of the Cum
ningham claimants, was prominent
in the organization of Taft clubs.
JOHL mays hammond was president
of the national league of republican
clubs. AS stated above, Harry White
organized the Taft clubs on the Pa
cific coast. Harry White Joined
the presidents train at Seat
tie on the presidents trip last sum-
mer and accompanied it to San
Francisco. When President Taft
was in Seattle he played golf with
C. J. Smith and II. G. Henry, two of
the. most prominent Cunningham
claimants, and Former Governor
McGraw was among his constant
companions"
The second article in the current
issue of Golfers regarding Balm
ger is In relation to his attempt to
reverse the Roosevelt conservation
policy as regards the Truckee- Car
son irrigation project, which con-
templates the irriga tion of arid
lands in Nevada from the waters of
Lake Tahoe. In regard to this it
says:
''The story means in brief. of
course. that Clifford Pinchot, Secre-
tary Wilson, William Kent Senator
Newlands and A. w. Maltby were
compelled to take active measures
TO prevent Ballinger from substi-
tuting for a Garfield contract a con-
tract Of his own, much more favor
able TO the power company and
much less favorable to the govern
ment- His contract proposed to sur
render perpetual rights to power
plants and transmission lines, with
out payment of any charge, over a
large and indefinite. tract of land in
the Tahoe national forest. and to
give power monopoly over this
area. This feature of the contract
is, of course. 1agrantly opposed to
the whole Roosevelt Pinchot- Car
field policy"