The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-18

increase their changes Of remaining II
power for considerable period
No less an authority than Theodore
Roosevelt said recently that sbe State Of
New York could be 50 redistricted that
The Democrats could rely on carrying at
least al districts al every election
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Democratic Senators end members of
the House who are in Washington nm
hesitatingly declare that the more they
study the results of Tuesdays elections
the more they are impressed with the
belief that those results carry the clear
and emphatic mandate 10 Congress that
the tariff must be revised in the interest
of all the people, and start thus made
toward the reduction of the cost of living
10 this country No other interpretation
can be placed on the remarkable manner
in which the rebuke of defeat at the polls
was administered in every part of the
country of those who stood out defanily
against the honest downward revision of
the tariff. which the country believed the
Republican national platform of 1908 had
promised, while almost without excep-
ton the men who fought for such revision
against the majority Of their party in
House and Senate were reelected or
otherwise indorsed by their constituents
Thus in the States where the favoren
industries were given everything they de-
mauded by the trainers of the Payne
Aldrich act, The masses of the people
showed their bitter resentment against
what had been done by repudiating the.
party that was responsible for disregarding
the welfare Of all but the pampered few.
Democrats can place no other interpreta-
ton on these results than that the great
mass Of the people of those supposedly
high protection States are in reality con
WINGED that they get none of the benefits
of high projections, and therefore want
Congress to push through an honest
downward revision of the tariff as speed
| lily as possible.
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Fearful that the Interior Department,
which is under the direction of Secretary
Ballinger, will recommend the patenting
of the Cunningham Alaskan coal land
claims, which he believes TO be fraudulent,
Clifford Pincho. former forester of the
United States, who was deposed by Taft,
has appealed to tie President to allow
him to submit brief before any such
action is given executive approval Mr..
Pinchot wrote to the President under date
of November !, saying, in part:
| IT is. unfortunately. impossible to look
with confidence to the officials of the In
terror Department for an unbiased Judge.
ment" in this matter. and he declares
that sit is clear that the protection of the
public interest in these Alaskan coal lands
must depend directly upon the President
HIMSELF
Secretary Ballinger's connection with
these claims. which have been before the
interior Department since be was Com
missioner of the Land Office. precipitated
the Ballinger. Pinchot controversy and
the Congressional inquiry into the In.
terror Department ami the Forest Service
which resulted therefrom.
Secretary Ballinger. has issued state
ment in which he declared that wholly
unfounded charges have been spread
roadcast involving the attitude of depart
ment officers toward these cases. and that
in view of these conditions he deemed
| it of the highest importance that all these
cases ne transferred from the jurisdiction
of the General Land Office directly to the
Court of Appeals Of the District of Colum
bia for consideration and adjudication ;
He indicated that he would recommend
Congressional authorization of this trans
fer in his annual message Mr.. Ballinger
added that for several months. at his own
instance. these cases had been placed
under the special direc,ional Of the Presi
dent, with the view that no action should
be taken without his special sanction.
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