Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-07
ROOSEVELT TO
SUPPORT FOE
OF BA[L|NGER
GIVEN OUT AFTER
CONFERENCE WITH POlNDEx-
TER; CANNON ASKS SOURCE OF
THE NEWS.

WaSnln9t0uy y. W. vO'y W u
"Who gave out the news about
Poindexter?" That was what
Speaker Cannon asked an inter
viewer last night when informed
the intimation that Poindexter
would have the sympathy OF
Roosevelt In his candidacy for
senator in Washington had come
from both Poindexter and Roose-
Welt. Cannon declined to comment
further upon the situation until he
knew more about II.
Oyster Bay, July 6.-Roosevelt left
today for New York in an automobile,
accompanied by his son Kermit. No po-
litical conferences were held at Oyster
Bay this morning.
Colonel Roosevelt has made it clear
not by a direct statement, but by an
implication SO strong that it admits Of
no misinterpretation, that he will sup
port Representative Miles Poindexter
States senate from the state of Wash
ington. They had conference at
Sycamore Hill yesterday. Poindexter
departed jubilant.
In endorsing Poindexter Colonel
Roosevelt placed himself squarely in
opposition to Richard A. Ballinger,
secretary Of the interior, whom Presi-
dent Taft has so warmly defended.
Mr.. ,Po1ndexter Is opposed to Secre-
tary Ballinger and hopes to succeed
Piles who has been identified with the
Ballinger wing Of the Republican party
In that state. Ballinger and Poindexter
are from the same Seattle district.
Mr. Poindexter said: Il found Col.
Roosevelt unchanged. He is just the
same as ever. He and 1 have worked.
together always. He assured me we
always would work together l am de
lighted with the result of my visit"
Roosevelt Looked Happy.
Colonel Roosevelt looked happ.
when he received interviewers later.
.Mr. Poindexter and went over the
political situation In the northwest. He
assured me he was In hearty sympathy
with my conservation policy. Mr.. Poin-
dexter is candidate for the United
States senate and Is. politically op-
posed to that wing Of the party headed
by Senator Ballinger.'
That was all the colonel wanted
quoted. What he said otherwise made
Poindexter that he would support him.
Poindexter is an out-and- out insur-
gent.
Jordan Opposes Football.
Denouncing football as combin-
alton of pure brutality and pugilism
that appealed to the love Of the sordid
David Starr Jordan. president of
Leland Stanford university, led in the
discussion that followed a report made
yesterday by the committee on moral
education in public schools to the
national council Of education of the
National Educational association in
convention here. He added:
Some day the college presidents
and school heads of this country will
perhaps be called cowardly and brutal
because they did not put a stop to the
dangers of football, sport that
destroys the best there is in American
youth
The game, he continued, aroused the
same love of the sordid that focused
the interest of the country in "a rine
away out in far Nevada, where a
black man and a white man were
pounding each other yesterday"
mo intelligence is required in the
game of football he asserted. Black
smiths and boiermakers can play the
game as well as men Of the finer in
diligence; in fact, they are considered
tho test raw material for the game"
President Jordan favored the sub
stitution of the English game Of
Rugby