The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-12
POindexter Declares Princi-
pies Stand Despite Loss
of Patronage.
ACCUSED
OF FALSE SUPPORT
Washington Representative Asserts
That Cannon and AldTiCh Are
At Heart Taft's Opponents.

Representative POtudexter Of Wash
tnEto1. one OF the prominent insurgents
Of the House. declared in an interview
today there would be no backward step
IN progressive RepubIicanism.
1T is childish 10 suppose said he
that threats OF withdrawal OF patron
age or any opposition viii cause pro
Eressrve Republicans to abandon prin-
ciples which they regard as vital and
have adopted after the most careful
and conscientious consideration The
fight for the reorganization Of the House
upon representative basis and the lin
itatiOn Of the powers Of the Speaker viii
90 on TO success Substantial progress
IN that respect has already been made
in this Congress. 7 do not recognize
a few benefciaries Of the tory orEanIzz-
ton IN Congress as the dictators OF the
Republican party OF its policies
The neutrality-suspicious. controversy IS
merely an incident Of a much deeper
issue Nj Pinchot. more than any other
man in the country, stands for certain
policies Of conservation Of natural re-
sources tor the benefit Of all the people
These E-IiCies were adopted and estab-
lished as the policy OF the Republican
party BY Theodore Roosevelt
Opposed by Cannon
Mr. Csnnon and many Of his intimate
political advisers have declared their
selves as opposed to these policies The
chief oC+.-feIs Of the Interior Depart
ment ans Land Office have publicly
and privately rldicuIed and opposed Mr..
PinchOt's forestry administrati ton and
his general conservation policies The
bitterly opposed to them I have talk
ed 10 many Cannon men and know their
views on the subject
Mr. DalzeI1, in the debate on the Bali
niger resolution, yielded half his time
70 Mr. Martin, a Democrat Of Colorado,
who consumed It in a bitter attach on
PinchOt and the forest reserve policy
These men cannot deceive the public
made In the face Of rising popular
wrath
Il am for Pinchot and his policies and
We have got TO fight for them I am
for Roosevelt and hope and expect 70
see him again President of the United
States. TO guard and preserve these pol
icles- Roosevelt IS a good Republican,
notwithstanding the so-called gang con-
trolling the organization in Congress ls
bitterly opposed TO him
Really Against Taft
iris same organization is opposed TO
the YoIicIes Of Mr. Taft. though for
purposes Of political safety It may make
a show OF giving him support Mr.
Taft recommends the immediate adco-
ton OF postal savings banks and in this
he viii be supported BY the progress
Sive> Republicans. but the Canuon-AI-
dTiCh Republicans Will seek TO delay
and ultimately to defeat them So as TO
his recommendations for regulating the
railroads and conserving the natural re-
sources the reaCtiOnsry CannOnites are
bitterly opposed TO any real progress in
these respects. They are TcactiOnarv I'm
this as In other things, while the pro
EressiVes are almost unanimously in
favor Of them
M Taft was nominated by the pro
SrcsSives under the lead Of Theodore
Roosevelt and against the bitter o.spoSi-
lion OF the tories: and if he proposes
to stand &c the progressive prin ,iples
ne has recommended. ne will find IFS for
them We are against Cannonisrr and
Al1richiSm and II is an irrepre sSrUr
conflict