Bisbee daily review., 1910-03-11


 contemplating a reversal of the con
 servation program. Yet it is not
 unreasonable to believe that when
 Mir. Ballinger was chosen Secre-
 tary Of Interior that probability did
 not obtrude itself as it might now seem that it would have done.
 The press. rather than MT. Pin
 chat or Mr. Glavis. has been instru-
 mental in centering public attention
 upon the alleged efforts of Mir
 Baninger to Guggenheimize the De
 partment of the Interior. It is rarely possible to forecast the ae-
 uvities of the press.
 If Golfers Weekly had not be-
 gun it's fight on Ballinger several
 months ago, and if the press of the
 country, without much regard to
 politics. had not interested itself in
 the question raised, there might
 never have been any inquiry. The
 story of Glavis might never have
 been published The present inves-
 tigation although actually instituted
 at the instance Of the Administra-
 ton in an effort to whitewash the
 Department of the Interior. was vir- tually called, and was certainly forced, by the sheer weight of pub lieity.
 It is fantastic to believe that MT Ballinger. in the fullness of his knowledge of his unhtness for the position, and reasonably certain that that Administration shared to a greater or less degree. regarded the reversal of the Roosevelt pol icies as to natural resources feas- ible? Would not his appointment be sufficient to create in his mind the belief that with the backing of an Administration that felt it safe to appoint him. he would be fairly secure in pursuing the policy which the Administration might, ligicalIy, contemplate with as much com placency as it views the tariff atroc- ity that was perpetrated in re- sponse to a public demand for re- form?
 If MT. Ballinger did enter upon the discharge of his duties as the l attorney of grabbers of mining prop | erty and power sites, was he any l more blind to the signs of the times | than President Taft when he ex- i onerated him in his open letter un- der the mistaken impression that to l endorse Mir. Ballinger and kick Mir. Glavis out of the service would be to stihe the controversy that had arisere
 The Taft administration has no, | been distinguished by any great de gree of perspicacity Only a few days ago President Ta.s gave evi. ience of his fallare. eran at this late date, to unGersrand public sen -iment when he made a defense of he Payne-Aldrich law in a public 1tterance and aroused the indig. nation of large portion of the Republican press by parading the Ways and Means Committees fig lres on downward revision" as ;roof of the benignity of that mo- able example of special interest egisIation.
 Surely it would be remarkable fl Ar. Ballinger a second-rate lawyer. bred in an atmosphere of political intrigue, should prove himself wiser han his superiors. The error of he Administration has been to ake the view that because a con siderable part of the public re- 'ented the spectacular Roosevelt methods of batting corporations in court while protecting them in Con- sress. the country was ready for an 'ld-fashioned hide-bound Republican Administration, based upon the principle that to the political bosses of the political bosses belong he land and the fatness thereof. ! If Mr. Ballinger was actuated by he motives imputed to him. he merely shared that idea with men niger up.
 The dirt is beginning to ay along F-s l