Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-08
WILSON WILL OUT.
70 FOLLOW P|y<,tO|
AGRICULTURAL e. >RTMENT
CERTAIN TO BE INVOLVED IN
FORESTRY ROW.
sEcRETARY's RESIGNATION
WILL FOLLOW FoREsTeR's
Senator DoIliver Expected to Be Chief
Defender of Roosevelt's Policies in the
Coming Conflict - Pinchot Writes
Iowa Friend That He is Confident of
Ultimate Vindication.
Special to Times-Republican.

special to Times Republican
Des Moines, Jan. S.-When Clifford
Pinchot sewers connection with the ad-
mlnistration look out for Secretary
Wilson's resignation.
The Iowa friends of Secretary Will
son understand this situation and will
not be surprised il the scramble at
Washington comes to head in such
way as to involve the agricultural de-
partment Wilson Is the last of the
roosevelt cabinet. 1t is an open secret
that his place was at one time offered
to another.
There is also great interest in the
attitude taken by Senator Dolliver,
long a close personal friend of Wilson
and the man on whom the Roosevelt
administration leaned in the matter of
effective rate legislation. He is un-
,doubtedly to be chief defender of the
Roosevelt policies in the coming great
conflict.
Pinchot is Confident.
Mr.. Pinchot wrote letter to his
friend and worker on the Roosevelt
county life commission, Mr.. Henry
Wallace, which the latter received yes
terday, in which he reiterated his con-
fidence in final victory in his position
and belief that in the end he will be
sustained in his work for the conserva-
ton of resources. He stated that 1t
was neither q personal nor party
matter with him, but one of principle,
and he was never more than now con-
vinced that his position and that of
the Roosevelt administration is right.
MIR. Wallace also received letter
from Horace Plunkett. dated Jan. 1. in
which the great student of farm life
and hopes that the work he has so we'll
begun will not be abandoned The
country life commission in fact grew
out of a suggestion by Horace
Plunkett.
Wallace Endorses Forester.
The work in which Mr.. Pinchot has
been engaged said Henry Wallace
els the result of patriotic devotion to
high purpose. He is we'll to- do, but
not so rich as 1t has been represented,
and he inherited from his father his
love of forestry. He believes that in
developing forestry and the conserva-
tion of natural resources there is a
field worthy of the best efforts of any
man. He has proceeded on the theory
that the rights of the people should be
protected, even to the extent of strain
ing the law in their direction. When
it was announced one day that after
some of the land had been restored to
the public domain that Secretary Car
field had withdrawn. | wrote to Pres
ident Taft congratulating him on the
fact. received letter from the
president saying 1t was not true. He
turned the letter over to Secretary Bal
linger and he wrote in substance that
he was for conservation. but at present
there was no law for it, There Is the
issue.
mo man about Washington was
closer to Roosevelt than was Pinchot.
The two were inseparable. They work
ed in perfect harmony. The Pnchot
policy was Roosevelt's policy. Pin
chot is all that is left of the Roosevelt
policies l presume he has made some
mistakes. and perhaps has done some
things for which there was no warrant
of law. We can excuse a good deal in a
man who makes mistakes in good
cause. But no man who knows Mr.
Pinchot will question his motives or his
honesty and earnestness'