The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-07-06

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Ex.PHts t1Eisr TAX Es SINE or
ENEMY OF BAL Lin eER FROM
HOME STATE.
OYSTER BAY n. ", July 6. ---
Theodore Roosevelt mad clear yes:
terday, not by direct statement. but by
Implication SO strang that 1t admits
lpf no neutrality-suspicious. that he Will
lsppport Representative Miles Poindex.
rim his fight for a scat In the United
States seriate,fr6m the State ofsWash.
lington. They had luncheon together
land conference ut Sycamore Hill
land Mr.. Polndexter departed jnbilant.
In endorsing Poindexter for the
senate, Colonel Roosevelt placed him.
self squarely in opposition to Richard
"A. Balllnger secretary OF the interior,
whom President Taft has SO warmly
defended; and'itSis the only stand he
HAS taken, bearing directly or indi-
rectly on the Ballinger.Plnchot con.
troyersy.
Mr.. Poindextersis opposed to Score.
tary Ballinger from first to last and
hopes to unseat Senator Piles, OF
Washington, who seeks another term
and has Secretary Ballinger's support.
The secretary and Mr. Poindexter
are from the same Seattle district.
Leaving Oyster Bay after the con.
ference, Mr.. Poiridexter said:
~ found Colonel Roosevelt I'm.
changed. He is just the same as
ever. He and have worked together
always and. he assured me that we
always would work together. ! am
delighted with the result Of the visit"
Roosevelt Happy.
| Colonel Roosevelt looked happy
when he received the interviewers a
little later. Seated in his library, he
spoke Of his talk with Mr.. Poindexter
in manner which showed plainly
the pleasure which the meeting had
given him. This is what he had to
say:
Representative Polndexter and !
went over the political situation in
the northwest. He assured me that
he was in hearty sympathy with my
conservation policy.
"Mr. ,Poindexter is n candidate for
the United States senate and is
politically opposed to that wing Of the
party headed by Mr.. Ballinger, the
secretary Of the interior"
That was all the colonel wanted to
have put in quotation marks. What
he said otherwise made 1t quite clear
that he had given assurance to Mr..
PoindeXter that he would support him
in his attempt to unscat Senator Piles.
BaIinger to Stick.
Coincidentally Secretary Ballingei
and President Taft had a conference
at Beverly in which they discussed
the reclamation service. There Mr..
Balllnger denied with emphasis ri.
NOR that he was to resign.
81 am not gutter and never have
been,' he said.
Miles Poindexter is an out and out
insurgent, whom the people of the
State of Washington elected on
radical platform. He has been a firm
supporter OF Roosevelt policies, es.
pecially rs relate to conservation Of
national resources which was the
basis OF his platform when he ran for
congress.
While the general opinion here is
that Colonel Roosevelt is still feeling
his way" rs regards his ultimate atti.
tude toward the Taft administration,
his stand yesterday is considered the
\
most striking indication Of his pres
tent frame Of mind. And that he will
tstill fight hard for the conservation
movement which he inaugurated while
in office he made 1t plain to interview
ers when Mr.. Poindexter had gone.
There have been two importan. sin.
surgent conferences" at Sycamore
Hill since the colonel's return; but
more arc coming. One of the most
potential of these is arranged for
Thursday next. On that day five OF
Ithc best known and weightiest of the
insurgents are coming.
Governor Hughes is expected here
Ieither Thursday Eight or Friday morn
Hing.
Robert Bacon, ambassador to
France, and Gibson Gardner, a maya
IIzine writer, were the other guests at
luncheon Mt Sycamore Hill Yesterday.