Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-14
THE ALASKAN CLAIMS

~ Angeles has an interesting and
intimate association with the Ballin-
ger-Pinchot controversy. He writes;
Adjoining the Cunningham group of
coal claims in Alaska are the claims
known everywhere except in Seattle
as the Green group. In Seattle they
are known as the White group. That
is their proper designation. M. A.
Green is an employe or side partner
of Harry White. There are other
groups controlled by White, and the
White group of coal claims is the larg-
est in Alaska. There are eighty claims
in this group alone. Harry White is
said to be or to have been an agent
of the Guggenheims. He is somewhat
of a financial and commercial mystery.
He is a man of wealth and influence
His reputation, however, is not good
He was compelled to resign as mayor
Of Seattle. That was about 1892 or 1898.
Later, White moved TO Los Angeles,
Cal, though he graVitated good deal
between there and Seattle Harry
White has boasted in past years of his
family relationship to the Tafts He
is a personal friend of DR.. William A.
Edwards, who is married TO President
Tafts sister and lives at Los Angeles.
Before the writer (Mr. Connolly) went
to Los Angeles he had a long inter-
view with Harry White in Seattle in
the course of which White told him
incidentally that he had gone to Alaska
in 1897 with DR.. Edwards. White was
President Tafts personal representa-
tive on the Pacific coast during the
last national campaign.
HE was also the organizer of the
Taft clubs on the coast. In the Los
Angeles Times of July 90 1908, Harry
Whites picture appears on the front
page, together with a column and a
half interview with him as the personal
representative of President Taft. Under
Whites picture are the words, Harry
White, Los Angeles man of affairs,
who is personal representative of Will
liam II. Taft on the Pacific coast
Harry White is believed by many
in Seattle TO be the man who secured
Ballinger's appointment as secretary
of the interior. Even before Taft s
election White had said that Ballinger
would be appointed secretary of the
interior and that there would be a rad
ical change from Garfeld's policy.
. Whether Harry White has
been the agent of the Guggenheims or
.,0t II is bardlu IiI.alv fbot ba 1,to,,1d
expect to carry through to a consum-
nation such a large number of claims,
aggregating millions of dollars, taken
up as they are by these family groups
through a power of attorney given to
one man, unless Harry White had be-
hind him some powerful influence with
selfish interests to serve. The stake
itself is so colossal and the family re-
lationships are so easily traced that no
sane man, unless he had behind him
some protecting power high up, would
venture upon so treacherous a course.
Los Angeles, the home of Harry White
and Dr. William A. Edwards, is also
the home Of Senator Frank p. Flint,
member of the Ballinger-Pinchot in
vestigating committee. Harry White,
as we'll as other close friends of DR..
Edwards, is prominent in what is
known as the dominant political ma
chine. Senator Flint owes his election
to this influence and publicly acknowl-
edged it at the time. Pasadena, sub
urb Of Los Angeles, is the home of
Congressman James McLachlan, an
other of the White group of claimants.
Governor Gillett of California and his
wife also own claims in the White
group. Governor Gillett appointed
Harry White California's commission
er to the Alaska Yukon Pacific expo
sition at Seattle. WHITE IND GIL
LETT ARE ABOUT TO ORGANIZE
ANOTHER GROUP OF ALASKA
CLAIMS. Congressman McKinlay of
California is another claimant in the
White group.
oscar Lawler, also a resident of Los
Angeles, and a member of the same
political circle, is the law officer of the
interior department under Ballinger.
AlC ~ 10 wiz BctSooco AbS1l OpllilOll Oll
all matters in connection with the in
terror department. Lawler is the po-
litical protege Of Senator Frank P.
Flint. LAWYERS former law firm and
Senator Flint's former law firm in Los
Angeles have recently been consoll-
dated, 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 misstatements of fact
contained in President Taft's letter of
September 10, 1909, whitewashing Bal
linger. AT ANY RATE, THIS FLINT
LAWLER CLAIMANT SITUATION
IS A PRETTY ONE INDEED"
The people of Los Angeles and Cali
fornia should watch closely the devel-
opment and progress of the far-from
ended Ballinger-Pi hot-Fllnt-Lawler-
Taft story. Thank heaven, the man
of the square deal and the patriotic
policies is on his way
home
VOTE THE BONDS