Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-17
BALLINGER CONCLUDES TO ABIDE
BY THE OPINION OF HIS
COLLEAGUES.
NOW EN- ROUTE TO CAPITAL
TO ATTEND MEETING
Reported That Secretary of Interior
Will Demand of President and His
Associates in Administration Coun-
ellis Either vindication or Conaem-
nation.
Whether
nation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. II. = Whether
Richard A. Ballingers resignation as
secretary OF the interior will follow
Immediately upon the meeting Oh 'lie
cabinet Sept. 20, to attend which ne Is
now EN- route from Seattle; or whether
he will retain his position indefinitely
at least until after the delivery 10
congress of the reports OF the commit
tee which Investigated his stewardship
of the public acknowledgements now up
on the attitude OF his cabinet aSSo-
ciates
MIR. Ballinger is coming TO Washing
ton his friends here insist. wholly uii-
conscious OF amy act on MS part AoI
which hes hould be condemned ai-u
mas determined to force MS chlel aiNo
his official colleagues to be, IN elect
his judges. If they concur III the we"
at present attributed TO Mr.. rant thd'
The accused secretary shall De su'
lained as AN innocent and prosecuted
man. he Will retain his posltlon' II lies
fail to back him up he Wall resign. iii"'
this is Mr. Ballingers position was
learned here yesterday upon aulhoii's
hardly to be questioned.
AT clle NTSl llStl!!iS VI 'i4N
after the summer recess Secretary OIL
war dickinson the democratic MEM
Der. will not have returned from
the Philippines, and Will there
fore be saved the einbarrass-
ment of participation in what
is regarded as largely problem OF re-
publican policy. The meeting Is eH-
pected 10 last three days. II VIII sur
prisce nobody here if the Balllnger case
occupies large part OF the time
Department. in Turmoil
Rumors have been constant and de-
cidedly definite here during the past
few days that Mr.. Ballinger reslgl!a-
ton would be one of the iirst develop
ments of the cabinet meeting; out ms
friends. including his associates in the
interior department, have refused 10
believe that he would retire under
fire" and have pointed TO his OK re-
peated declaration to the contrary, ana
10 the recent statement attributed 10
him, that he would resign only at the
specific request Of the president
Some of these however, yesterday
admitted themselves and the secretary
to be alive TO the fact that the turmoil
and uncertainty into which the pro-
tracted controversy has plunged the
this important branch of the public
service is to become hopelessly de-
moralized.
Nobody here doubts that majority
all but one of the republican mem
bers-of the investigating committee,
will sustain Secretary Ball!nger in their
report to congress. But Secretary Ball
llnger and his partisans here were
greatly disappointed that the absence
of Senators Root and Flint from the
Minneapolis meeting left the pro- Bal
linger portion Of the committee in the
minority and permitted the democrats
and the insurgent republican member
To put forth reports condemning hifn'
which for many weeks Will stand be-
fore the country as the only findings OF
the investigating committee; whereas
he had relied upon the majority for
yindicatiOu.