Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-06
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ON BALL|NGER FOE
FOR j. S. SENATOR
Indorses Insurgent Congressman
P~Oindexter Against Senator
Piles, of Washington.

OYSTER BAY. July 6.-Theodore
Roosevelt has come out in favor OF
Miles Poindexter, the insurgent con
gresham from Seattle, who Is Secre-
tary Ballinger's most active enemy. He
made the announcement last night
that he will receive four more
insurgents tomorrow. He wishes no
mentor made in advance of the names
of his expected guests, but there is
every indication that he has in mind a
national political movement that will
create a great amount of discussion.
Aside from national politics, Roosevelt
is planning to keep a tight grip upon
the New York State situation. n dur
ing h afternoon he was in commune
cation with Governor Hughes over the
long-distance telephone.
In indorsing Poindexter for the Sell
ate. Colonel Roosevelt places himself
squarely in opposition to Richard A
Ballinger, secretary of the interior,
whom President Taft has so warmly
defended, and it is the only stand he
has taken bearing directly or indirectly
on the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy.
Mr.. Poindexter is opposed to Secre-
tary Ballinger from first to last, and
hopes to unseat Senator Piles, CT
Washington, who seeks another term
and has Secretary Ballinger's support,
The secretary and Mr.. Poindexter are
from the same Seattle district.
Leaving Oyster Bay after the con
ference, Mr.. P~oindexter said:
HE is the same old President. the
man I nave worked with and loved and
1 am still going to work with. He is
just the same as ever. He is a won
derful leader, and he is still the leader.
I am tremendously pleased with my
talk with him today. He must tell
the @tails, II he wishes, of our con-
veSs1tion: but he is still the great
&esident and great leader. Colonel
Roosevelt and l and my associates have
always worked together, and he as
sured me that we will continue to-
gether."
Colonel Roosevelt looked happy when
he received the interviewers a little
later. He was dressed In the crash
riding suit which he wears most of the
time while ne is at home. Seated in
his library, he spoke of his talk with
Mr.. Poindexter in a manner which
showed plainly the pleasure which the
meeting had given him. This Is what
he had to say:
Representative Poindexter and I
went over the political situation in the
Northwest. He assured me that he
was in hearty sympathy with my con-
servation policy. Mr.. Poindexter is u
candidate for the United States Senate
and is politically opposed to that wing
of the party headed by Mr.. Ballinger,
the secretary of the interior"
That was all the colonel wanted to
have pat in quotation marks. What
he said otherwise made 1t quite clear
that he had given assurance to Mr..
Poindexter that he would support him
in his attempt to unseat Senator Piles.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 6.-Secre-
tary Bailinger, interviewed while pass
ing through this city bound for Wash
ington last night, declared that he did
not believe that Theodore Roosevelt
would support Miles Poindexter for the
Senate. He said:
II don't care, anyway. for Tn not in
politics. I will tell you this, though:
] don't believe that the State of Wash
ington will ever send Miles Poindexter
to the United States Senate"
WASHINGTON, July 6.-"who gave
out that news: Poindexter? ?"
That is what Joseph G. Cannon,
speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, asked a newspaper interviewer
late last night upon his return to
Washington after a trip to a neighbour
ing seashore resort.
Informed that the intimation that
Representative Poindexter, of Wash
ington, would have the sympathy of
former President Roosevelt in his can
didacy for senator from that State a
come from both Mr.. Poindexter and
Colonel Roosevelt, Mr.. Cannon declined
to comment further upon the situation
unit he knew more about it."