The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-05-25
CAN'T Save HIM
President Taft Sinks Deeper and Deepe
in the Ballinssr Hire.


REPUBLICANS AGHAST
They Fear Revelations That Have
Come Out in the Case Will Ruin
Not Only the Taft Administration,
But the Whole Republican Party
Along With Ii.
The Washington correspondent Of
Grit thinks that if the RallinGer
-UmpuS. the bane or the present Ad-
ministraticn. is not placed in the
discard soon. it is going 10 wreck
the entire Republican party. This
is practically the concensus Of opin-
ion Of the foremost Republicans in
the National capitol. conviction,
reached after what has been prob
ably the worst week the Taft admin
istra;ion has experienced in the gov
ernmen, Of the nation. The attempt
Of the President and his advisors and
counselors 70 clear up the waters
muddled by the sensational kerby
statement last Saturday week has
been pitiful.
Ins,ead Of clearing i, up. the e1-
plantations and statements have stir
red up the whole unsarory mess cr-
en- more. and the blacker fhe affair
grows. the greater the blot on the
Administration is going 10 be. Some
one has erred somewhere In the past.
This much is admitted. But some
one is erring ever greater now in
the course that is being pursued. No
names are mentioned by the disgust
ed Republicans. for it Is not prope!
70 openly criticise one very high in
the party ranks.
Secretary os the Interior Richard
4. Ballinser stands Giscreditcd be.
fore the entire country. No amour,
Of Investigation" or Government,
whitewash will change the opinion
Of the people as to Ball.aser's guilt
His actions since Pinchot first al,
tackled his policies. and the thins:
,rought ort against him a. the Con
,reSSional investigation. st!ll in pro
sreSs. brands the cabinet officer a:
a man who is looking after the in
teres,s OF the interests" first. auc
then scraping up The crums for tht
people.
And yet President Taft persists /,
his efforts 20 whitewaSh ;his mem
Der OF his official family. The wise
ones see that the Chief Executive
BY his actions is not only leadia:
mis- own administration to cevtai!
destruction. but he is ser!ous!,
threatening the very life Of the part!
that gave 20 him the highest oftic'
in the la2d Still ne persists. IL
the name OF department, discipline
in bolstering up the cause OF Bal
lingerism.
When Frederick NJ Kerby. tn
Young stenographeT working IN tn:
Department Of the Interior. made
public his sensational story Of how
Lawler. and not President Taft
wrote the Ballinger whitewash lette
which the President gave to th'
country. i; placed the Chief Execu
tive in very bad light. Since tha
rime the President explanations Az;
actions have been even worse. Witt
Taf,'s consent. Ballinger immediate
iy dismissed kerby from the ser
vice.
And the secretary Of the interior
discharged young kerby. with ;
signing -eprimand. because he &c
yeaied the manner in which Bailin
ger obtained his exoneration from
the President, and the deception
orac;iced upon the public in tha
excneraeion. According 10 kerby''
statement. Secretary Ballineer gross
" deceived the country. and Pres!
dent Taft was party TO that dece3
ton. And he was not an iaaocel
party. either.
Kerbv undoubtedly expected . NJ
dismissed A man of Ballinger':
type would necessarily regard tbs
affront 70 himself as far outweig,:'
ing the service ker5y had rendered
the public The general belief is
however. that Ballinger and the AZ
minis,ration will suffer more thar
Neroy.
Kerby merely goes to join Ins
growing list OF remarkable mel
who have proved themselves coIra-
;eous enough to protest asaias,
wrong and place the public interests
above their own. The list now II.
cludes CLAWS. Pinchot and Price and
shaw. the former assistants Of Pin
hot. Hoyt. former assistant gener-
Il OF Porto Rico. and kerby. They
! have ali been driven out Rf the
| uubiic service. and are claSSed IS
| traitors by the Administration. bu:
he only oaense committed by az
me OF them was that Of telling the
ruth. and Of striving 10 prevent
What they believed 10 be The per
| 2etraticn 81 a great wrong.
Others are to be added 10 the
'ist. unless all signs fa.l. They viii!
re II. TiIler Jones. the special asect
}: the Land Office. who joined with
| slaviS. in the fight TO save the Alas
"a cca! lands. Director Newell. o!