The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-08-06
It Is Formally Launched by
DR.. Samuel McCave Lind
say, Who Confers With
Col. Roosevelt.
LATTER MAKES NO
Former Forester Said to Be
a Progressive and in Sym
pathy With the Hughes
Policies.

New York, July 29.-Giford Pincbot,
former chief forester under Theodore
Roosevelt, took place upon the list OF
possible candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor Of New York,
and Theodore Roosevelt was asked TO
support his candidacy.
The ex.prcsident has not said any.
thing that in any way resembles an
outspoken declaration in favor of any
candidate; it il believed that he does
not look unkindly upon the boom.
DIR. Samuel McCave Lindsay, former
commissioner of education of Porto
Rico, and now II professor in Colum.
bia university, is the man who launched
the new boom. lie had a long conf.
Dental talk today with Colonel Roose.
welt, and left with the air of a man
well pleased with the turn things had
taken.
DR.. Lindsay explained that, although
Mr.. Pinchot had often been absent
from New York state in recent years
he has always retained his legal resi-.
dence in this city, ana has regularly
voted here. The fact that he was
talked of ut me time ms n possible
candidate for governor of Pennsyl-
vania vas based. said DR.. Lindsay, on
residence at Milford, Pa, where he has
a country place.
DIR. Lindsay is n close friend of Col.
onel Roosevelt and Mr.. Pinchot. In
common with other friends, he has been
working On the Pinchot boom for some
time and first suggested it Ia Mr.. Pinchot
himself. No definite answer, he said.
was returned.
Would Follow Hughes Steps
Colonel Roosevelt was told today
that, in the opinion of Mr.. Pinchot =
friends, he could draw support, from the
same sources which had given power
to Governor Hughes in past campaigns.
Mr.. Pinchot is represented ~ in sym.
patty with the general trend of the
Hughes progressive policy.
Mr.. Pinchot is now on his way east
from California, and ON his return will
have another conference with his old
chief, Colonel Roosevelt.
DIR. Lindsay Will tell him then that
as Governor of the state, he could
continue the work of conservation with
which his name has become associat.
ed. There remains a large field for
work which the federal government can.
not undertake, but which the governor
Of New York, ms n member of the house
of governors, could forward.
"Insurgent With a Difference"
De. Lindsay defined Clifford Pinchot
as an insurgent with a difference.
"Mr. Pinchot, +" he said, is an insur.
gent so far as conservatism goes. and
presumably his s~ympathies lie with the
insurgents on other questions, but he
cannot he classed as a full. Pledged in.
surgent. lie is "A progressive.
"The personal relations between Pres.
ident Taft and MIR. Pinchot have al.
ways been pleasant, and they were not
interrupted by the differences over the
conduct of the interior department. We
who favor his candidacy do not consider
that his nomination could he taken as
sn affront to the national administra
ton"
Among other callers ut the colonel s
editorial office today were Senator
Beveridge of Indiana, Charles p. Neil,
federal commissioner of labor, and the
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