The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-06
Special 10 The Tribune.


ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. 5.-Conser-
vation, dchorned with an anti-Pinchot
sentiment. and denaturcd by strong
tTnctnre of states rights, made its first
formal appearance today at the open
ing session of the National Conserva-
tion congress, st. Paul
President Taft was willingly, or un-
willingly, its fgurehead; its lungs and
vocal organs were supplied by western
governors whose advocacy of states
rights conservation is similar to that
OF the great railroad stockholders.
Feeling was tense as the congress
gathered. States rights conservation
is regarded as a sinister heresy by the
original conservationists of the Pinchot
stripe. 1t is considered a scheme of tho
interests which dominate certain state
governments to place natural resources
where they may be chad. -
Pinchot Big Issue
Pinchot himself thus became the big
issue 1t was mere inadvertance per
haps that Governor Eberhart omitted
Pinchot from his list of great conserva-
tionists, but it was noticed. But when
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yation is national,' the states rights
conservers stiffened perceptibly. They
cheered up bit when be said that
measures should be considered on a
basis Of effectiveness with reference
to their authors. Then the president
paid a glowing tribute to Theodore
Roosevelt and the dehorners of Pin
chot's policies again wondered where
they were at but they were clipper at
the finish.
Behind all this tenseness was the
knowledge on the part of the western
delegates that bolt was planned if the
states Fighters couldn't dominate the
congress.
President Is Cautious.
President Taft himself spoke as one
who knows he is treading on thin ice,
but when he finished speaking the de-
horners had the satisfaction of know
ing that Piuchot had at least half
dozen pins inserted in his anatomy. ''I
believe that one branch of the govern
ment should trust the others,' was one
pin. 50 A most important part of con-
servation must fall on the state legis
latures,' was another welcome lab;
and there were others. with this dis
tinguishcd example, the states rights
advocates will at succeeding sessions of
the congress proceed to go on with
the process of making Pinchot PIN
cushion.
However. the main part of the audi
ence was not anti-Pinchot. ,Jabs at the
former forester s policies evoked no ap-
plause,
Taft's Address Criticized.
Instead, the opinion was hatly eX-
pressed after the president g address
that he had gone farther than ever be-
fore to identify himself as the 'latter
day Buchanan Of the Republican
party, His leaning toward the reduc-
tion Of federal authority and of the
not extreme, but none the less positive.
Not all of the president address COW
cred ground that is IN difficult dispute,
and his handling of the Alaska coal
question created genuine and general
interest, as shown by applause.
Taft of course, WAS the bright and
shining light of the morning session,
but there were brisk little illuminatlons
of a lesser magnitude which shone
bravely. Governor Eberhart was one
of these, and, truth TO tell, his recep-
tion was most gratifying to his cam
uaign manager, f. f., Smith, who stood
the grouad," to employ n Hibernicism
This afternoon came the conference
of tho governors, with a heavy prcpon-
derauce of the western states Fighters
This was the big "its rights" session.
for it was turned over to the COVER
nors TO do as they desired with it,
Whether the eloquent denunciations of
federal greed and awkwardness will out
last the day and affect later sessions
to be seen. 4 good deal de.
pends upon the temper of the non GU
bernatoral delegates. 1t will he inter
esting 10 see how it comes out-more
than the how-to-do papers.
Great Throng Present.
Hundreds of delegates to the con
the Fourth street entrance TO the audi !
torium before the dotrs were thrown
open at $50 n. IN.
AdmIttance was only by badge or
ticket, and scores Of people who thought |
admission easier at the delegates en- .
trance than on Fifth street were turned
away After President Taft had TAKE en- /
his place on the reviewing stand at the |
federal building, the Twenty eighth |
United States infantry band from Fort |
Smelling entered the auditorium, took
its place in the orchestra PIT and played
selections while the delegates
were being seated on the vast stage
When the band struck up Gamer
lea - the whole crowd arose, cheering
and waving hundreds of little flags,
Long before the Fifth street entrance
was thrown open to the general pub
lie most Of the seats on the big stage
we're occupied, so were all of the boxes
md both side galleries. while the first
hnlcony was about half filled Repre-