The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-06
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BSFEhEED:0H
STUMP
DshaIf Of Insurgent Candi-
date for Congress.
nd standpatters Ara On One
Hide and Pinchot and Pro-
eressiyes On Other


~ 0IoON oNHSNe"
FRANCISCO. Cal, Aug. g.
70 Pinchot Is becoming q great
1igner. He is learning to talk
ut manuscript and to shake
with q crowd In q way that
do credit to Theodore Roose-
Ave Just finished three days
ring tour with him and VIM.
The latter Is running for con-
on an insurgent Republican
hrm, and Pinchot is Roosevelt's
1bution TO the Kent campaign.
welt sent him out to help.
- Pinchot's FIRST experience on
~ stump. He has made public
1870 before. of course. but they
generally been formal and care
prepared addresses before con-
don congresses and similar gath
u. Itsis new experience for him
Ho0t the village population gath
Al front OF the court house steps
% hand them politics. hot on
- 70 now Pinchot has not been
I'd a. an orator. He has drawn
audiences by q fame based on
49,. rather than By hope OF YER
fireworks: and his hearers have
- Impressed by the matter-rather
80 BY the manner of the message.
)nr trip began at Sacramento, took
1HoryovilIe, Oroville and Chico, In
&n day. and ON the second and third
-, covered Napa, Santa Rosa and
n 1atael
1880 are mostly agricultural towns
80 s3ch valley of tina Sacramento
~ district embraces half q dozen
nf1oo north of San Francisco and
n boeA Representatives. rather mis-
GDontsd--by q red-haired gentle
~ known out here a. Punk"
nc NcKinlay.
Srpo Valuable 70 Loss."
rou1dent Taft likes McKinlay.
IN tho campaign opened he wrota
w friend saying that NcKiniAy was
D valuable to lose" And when
here on his western tour, the
16ont gave . dramatic exhibition
*h1o aifection for the "a district con-
man by running his pudgy nm
through the latter's hair ana
GBur1ng:
lood old sorrsl-top."
y good old sorreltop'' may be re-
1Gd C tho candidate Of the stand
~ and Taft: while VIM. Kent II the
Deo OF those who favor the PRO
notve" or Roosevelt policies.
[out needs little Introduction. In
1cngO. everybody knows him, and
|oughout the country he II known
Everybody who keeps I'm touch with
Hflkable and publfcspirited work.
M In California. he lived for IL
~ = citizen OF Chicago, and has
~ returned to the state Of his M
While In Chicago he gave HIS money
~ his work to the task OF cleaning
the grating board of aldermen
.1oek 1t length crowned with sue.
In California Kent has worked
Heney. Rudolph Spreckels.
nm johnson and their kind. His
~ q long and spirit always gen.
~ Instance OF Kent's public-splrit.
onerusity II his gift OF the fam
rid wood grove on Mount Tamal-
20 the nation for q public park.
~hio modesty Is testified to by the
that he refused to.have the park
~ after himself, and insisted that
~ called the Muir Woods" 80 +.
~ present contest Is for the party
Mutation. California is trying out
E0oWz primary act, and the people,
kor than the bosses. will determine
thar, In the present Instance, name
Do6ubIjcan" properly belongs to q
VI who trains with Cannon, Taft
their friends, or to one who stands
M Roosevelt and progressive" poll
M old friend OF Clifford Pfnchot
nut q friend with close connections
the stand-pat camp--came to him
<<tW weeks ago and spent much time
~ oloQuence In urging him to keep
~ Of politics" and to stick To con.
Evntiop."
that 10 just what Clifford Pinchot
not do.
~ has taken up a fight IN which
toyvaffnn Ia but an incident, name
10 night to put the special inter.
~ out of politics. This is the mes
20 which Pinchot talks from the
|Deaker Cannon told Pinchot at
nGas City that It would take a
lrer Issue than conservation to start
now party.
we have that ISSUE" replied Mr.,
thot. "As the Republican party
raised up TO prevent the exten.
n Of human slavery over free soil
Ne insurgent Republican party Ia
- raised up TO prevent the exten.
Is of Industrial and political slavery
~ 3 people determined to be free"
Must Give Way to Progress
Illustrating the insurgent movement
Plnchot said to his Santa Ross
Ihs Republican party reminds me
= pine tree whose top shoot has
- attacked BY q species OF beetle
ErA sometimes infests the pine. The
Gr< shoot dies But there springs
~ The i've, sound wood OF the tree
c0y the dead section, . new shoot
~ turns upward TO the sky and
~. and becomes q new leader,
Ne tree continues TO grow tai
.cto thrive. The beetle OF specia
$1,000 has got into the Republican
N tree and that dead part viii have