Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-04-01

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claims credit for whatever good
thing happens, it must face the re.
sponsibility for some of the bad, even
If it should be bad crops.
So great has been the excitement
over the rebuka uf Cannon in the low
er house of Congress that the Ballin.
ger-Pinchot investigation has been to
great degree forgotten. Mr. PinchOt
since he testified, started to Europe
and is there. 1t is reported that he
went in answer to a cablegram from
ex-President Roosevelt. That one so
near the ex. President as ex Forester
Pinchot should be the first to get the
ear of Mr.. Roosevelt, is subject of
considerable anxiety to the other side
or at lei st to certain individuals of
the other side. So far, Mr. Roosevelt
has been as silent as the Sphinx
which he saw by moonlight. Anoth-
er significant fact is that during Mr..
Gar6eld's residence in the city two
weeks ago he was the guest of Mr..
Pinchot, and he lately made an ad-
dress to the Tippecanoe Club in Cleve
land, very temperate address, but
one in which it was plain TO see that
his syppthies were with the insur.
gents and that his advocacy was for
more enthusiastic support Of the
Roosevelt policies than it is possible
dicapped as he is by those in the
! House and the Senate with whom he
has elected to cOnsort. 1t is a curl"
ous situation and unprecedented in
our political history that a self ex-
lied ex-President is at this moment
more potential in the political affairs
Of the country than the genial gentle
man in the White House. What he
may say or do when or before he
lands here in June is a matter ofkeen
solieitude to regulars. insurgents,
Democrats and to everyone interest
ed in current politics.
Mr.. Garfield, in his speech in Cleve
land, made a severe arraignment OF
those Republican leaders guilty of a
policy which he thinks is certain to
} lead the party to defeat. He insist
ed that the average American rea'
1 lized that present conditions pointed
t. something radically wrong. He
-, urged progressive action and point
ed out that when party fails to bt
progressive Its usefulness has begur
to wane. alt is our duty" said MIR
Garfield, "to squarely face the situa
tion and to stand up and be counted
y for the policies that are in sympath!
. with the best progressive thought O
om country, and the people are just
ly calling upon rs for a fulfilment o
that policy. They will not be salts
with inaction and makeshift legisls
tion." These words, coming froI
Jimmie" as Mr.. Roosevelt wa
Ie wont to call this momber Of his reg
sr ular cabinet and of his tennis court {
10 kitchen cabinet also, after close con
D. munion as a guest Of Clifford Pincho
O. than whom none was closer to NJ
OF Roosevelt. naturally raises the quI
rs ton as to who are the represent
a. tives of the Roosevelt policies.
p' is useless to deny that Mr.. Taft
or was Mr.. Roosevelts chosen su
es cessor and political beir. NOthiI
en- like such a selection has ever befo
IN occurred in American history, al
OF the facts and the event are 20 rece
d. that everybody knows and realiz
As' them. The situation cannot but
embarrassing to the ex PresideI
Politician, statesman and historiI
as he is, he cannot but apprecis
In the difficulties with which the Pre-
DDS dent has had to contend and is CO
Idy tending. No president has ever be
or more sincerely anxious to carry {
the policies bequeathed to him
party platform than President Il
Y and II is not mere fiction TO pll
the odium Of failure II failure
must be, on his wicked advisers