The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-06
Former President Supports
Poindexter of Washington in
Fight for Senate.
DIRECT OPPOSITION TO
SECRETARY BALLINGER
Attitude Assumed by Teddy
Brings Joy to Hearts of Sec
retary's Opponents.

OYSTER BAY, N Y, July 5,-Theodore
Roosevelt made II clear today. not by
direct statement, but by implication SO
strong that It admits Of no mis!nterpre-
tation. that he will support Representa-
tive Miles PoindeXter in his fight for a
seat in the United States senate from the
state of Washington.
They had luncheon together and a con-
ference at Sycamore Hill today and Mr..
Polndexter departed jublant
In endorsing Pondexter for the senate.
Colonel Roosevelt places himself squarely
in opposition to Richard A. Ballinger, sec
retary of the interior. whom President
Taft has SO warmly defended. 1t is the
only stand he has taken bearing directly
or indirectly on the Ballinger-Plnchot
controversy.
Foe of Ballinger.
Mr.. Poindexter is opposed to Baninger
from first TO last and hopes TO upseat
Senator Piles OF Washington, who seeks
another term. and has Secretary Balm
gers support, The secretary and Mr.,
PoindeNter are from the same Seattle
district
Leaving Oyster Bay after the confer
ence Mr.. Poindexter said:
II found Roosevelt unchanged. He AID
7 have worked together always and hs
assured me that we always VIII work
together ! am delighted with the result
OF the visit"
Colonel Roosevelt looked happy when he
received the interviewers little later.
He was dressed In the crash riding sur
which he wears most OF the time he Is at
home. Seated In his library, he spoke
OF his talk with Mr.. PoindeStcr in a man
ner that showed plainly the pleasure the
meeting had given him. This is what he
said.
Representative PoindeXter and I went
over the political situation in the north
l.. tTl ia r
sympathy with my conservation policy
MIR Polndcxter is O candidate for
the United States senate and is polltl-
cally opposed to that wing OF the party
headed by Mr.. Ballingcr, secretary OF the
Interior
Extent of Quotation.
That was all tho colonel wanted to hnve
put In quotation marks. What he said
otherwise made Il rather clear he had
given assurances To Mr.. Poindexter that
he would support him In ms attempt 10
unseat Senator Piles,
Coincidentally, Secretary Ballinger and
President Taft held conference at Bev-
erly today in which they discussed the
denied with emphasis the rumor that
he was to resign
81 am not u gutter and never have
been" he said.
Miles PoindeNter Is an out and out in
surgent elected by the people of Wash
ington on radical platform. de has
been firm supporter OF Ro9seveIt poll @
servation. They were the basis OF ms
platform when he ran for congress-. lie
arrived at Oyster Bay on the noon tram
sureent For he had the same pleased
smile that shone of the faces OF Senator
Brlstow and Representatives Murdoch
and Madison of Kansas, when tAeF cuine
here last Saturday.
The insurgents arrived smiling but en-
cited. Presently they returned from sag
amore Hill. with the smile stu there; on,
with the excitement replaced by placid
confidence. 1t was go with the Wash,
ington man. AT luncheon they discussed
the Ballinger- -Pinchot occurrence in oe-
tail In the course of their talk on thc
political status of the northwest.
While the general opinion here IS that
Colonel Roosevelt is still feeling ms
way" as regards his. ultimate attitude
toward the Taft administration. his stand
today is considered the most striking IN
dicatlon of his political frame OF n1ind.
And that he will still fight nard Tor
the conservation movement he made
plain to interviewers when Mr PoindeN-
ter had gone, sat-.
surgonts' conferences at Sagnmore Hill
since the coloners return but more arc
coming.
One of the most potential OF these is
arranged for Thursday next On that day
five of the best known and WelghOest
OF the insurgents ara coming 10 talk
with tho eX-presloent, but MI Roose-
velt declined today 10 give out their
names.
Governor Hughes had peen expected
tomorrow. but he telegraphed he would
attend the funeral OF Chief Justice Fuller
Mt Bar IIarbor. He will come 10 Oyster
Eay Thursday or Friday.
Robert Bacon, ambassador TO France,
and ellison Gardner magazine writer.
were the other guests at luncheon at
Sagamoro Fill today.
The colonel and the ambassador fought
1,,i thp tennis SlR1-
more Hill as they used to do on the
White House court, The colonel Is going
to his editorial offices in New York i'll
the morning and will return to his home
late In the day.