The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-27
SECRETARY OF INFERIOR
RICHARD A. BALLlNGER

conception of democracy. It is re- lief of the slave status.
 ''To Dennet. Glavis' indomitable ef- forts to prevent the flching of the peoples vast Alaskan inheritage can be explained only in his having the coal case on the brain.' To Dennet i. seemed like 'treachery' when Glavis seeks aid from coordinate branch of the government-the fOrestry-be- cause he believes the public domain is in danger of being sacrificed by his own friends and associates.
 TO Secretary Ballinger, Glavis ap- pealed to the attorney general in the hope of securing reversal of Pierce's erroneous decision of characterization justifying dismissal and to the attor- rey general the overzeal in Glavis which induced him to appeal is but evidence of 'megalomania.,
 And. alaS-so insiduous, so per verting, so potent was the influence of these men that when in the simple and coura geous performance of his duty facts which made him and Clifford Pinchot fear all was not well. Glavis was met with neglect where he should have been attention: with condemna- tiOn where he should have had appre- citation as good and faithful servant of the people.
 ''This investigation,' the attorney continued, has been constantly re- ferred to as a struggle for conserva- tion, a struggle against the special in- terests. It is that; but it is far more than that. In it's insistent struggle for democracy. the struggle of the small man against overwhelming in- auences-politica1ly as we'll as finan- cially-the struggle to establish that every American is entitled to eQiial justice in the public service as well as in the courts-that no one is so
 hi rI,1 c-f, n1 I,o4 !, ruthlessly and unjustly upon even the humblest American. citizen.
 'sThe cause of Glavis is the cause
 of the common people"
 "Glavis the competent, the
 faithful" was the attorneys tribute to the dismissed chief of the field 'Harpies waiting to pounce," was his description of the Morgan-Gug
 genheim syndicate and the infuenciaI Senator makers" such as Charles Sweeney, C. J. Smith and others in terested in the Alaskan coal lands. Brandeis . scored Ballinger as
 strangely unethical" for the attitude he took when he came into office as secretary, with regard to the Gun | ningham coal cases. He declared that under the potent influence of ] the claimants when he resigned the ccmmissiOnership he forgot the rules of professional ethics and forgot the | rules of the Interior Department over which he had presided-by which rules he was debarred from practicing | before it for two years"
 But when he became secretary aft CT serving the Cunningham and other c!aimaints as Attorney Rrandeis de- ] clared, ..he drew strange ethical dis | tinctions." "HeNhad felt at liberty to serve the Cunningham claimants" he continued, although he had prev | icusly represented the government in | connection with them. But on be- coming secretary he felt barred from representing the peop1e'
 l In regard to ,Ballinger's declara- ! ton that he had absolutely nothing | to do with. the coal cases since be- coming secretary, Brandeis declared Secretary Ballinger knew all and 1 in effect he did all. It needed no writing signed by him to do the act | It needed no specific instructions Those by whom he was surrounded | were of that category who at the | winking of authority understand a law and who would never prove in
 subordinate from over zeal for the | public interests"