The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-13
THE CoLoNEL's PLANS ARE su.p-
IL

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We knew the colonei could not do
It, 1t was impossible. TO travel
through the courts of Europe, 10 READ
the cablesrams which are being sent
him by the score and to hear the oues
tions Of hundreds of newspaper men
wiihout"telling what ho was going TO
do. would have been more than any
one could properly have expected of
the Colonel. In fact. it is really re-
markable that he journeyed from the
head waters of the Nile as far as
Porto Maurizio without announcing his
future plans. He knew that the peo-
pie wanted to know and he realized
that the scales OF government were
suspended while his decision was being
awaited. He knew the faithful on this
side of the Atlantic were standing at
the hitching post. bridled and saddled.
ready to trot off at his word.
Now he has decided and it is all up
with the opposition. Just as soon as
he lands and has received the plaudits
of the waiting multitude he Will forge
his thunder, and then when he gets
before the National Conservation
League he will tell them all about it
He will outline once again his poll
cies and will hold up to the abuse OF
the elect those who have risen up in
his absence and know not Joseph
Something viii happen then-some.
4 thing wonderful and portentous. The
President will resign the moment he
hears that the Colonel has rejected
. him The Insurgents will rush from
their covering or HE themselves to
:, the tall timbera according as he viii.
be for them or against them, Every
body will rise up and cry, Great is
4 Theodore-long may lie liye!"
4 Along with the assurance that he
will address the Conservation Con-
gross come vague and equivocal re-
ports to the effect that the Colonel is
'wavering" Tremendous influences
are being brought to bear to persuade
him that the safety of America re-
| quires four years more of his rule. In
the deep woods around the Italian
town he has fought out the question
and perhaps has decided before this
time whether or not he viii let him
self be made President.
OF course, there is no connection be-
tween his promise to address the Ma
tional Conservation League and the
reports that he is still wavering. No
body could think of charging the Coll
oncl with political aspirations { he
is forced to accept the nomination--ot
| course he Will not ask for 1.-THE Col
| oncl will not let the Conservation
League have anything to do with it
He is merely obliging Pinchot b!
1 speaking before the league, for The
4 Colonel is q patriot and patrio
never puts two and two together blu
| goes ahead. regardless of public opin
! ion. determined to do or die.
/ Pinchot is pleased. In fact, he ap
/ pears "elated" according to the pres
e reports, and his smile is broader tina
: that which he wore on Monday whe'
4 he was still talking with his Master
a Pinchot cannot help being elated, be
4 cause he knows that when he ha
secured the colonels support he ha
r everything, What does it matter i
Taft is President, and Rallinger /
i Secretary OF the Interior? What doe
n it matter if the laws are upheld an
the win of the legislative branch o
), government is enforced by the Execu
: i've? The Colonel is for him, and Pin
chot cares not If all Others be agains
him,
Things are shaping up, both for TIL
. Colonel and for Pnchot,
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