Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-23
SECRET DEPARTURE FOR EU-
ROPE TO MEET ROOSEVELT
CAUSES SENSATION.
LITTLE DOUBT HE WAS
SUMMONED BY Ex-PREslDENT
Many Sec in Conference indications.
That Roosevelt Will Take Position
in Opposition to President Taft and
May Be Forced to Again Lead Re-
publican Party.

Washington, March %. Whel
Washington woke up to the fact tina
Clifford Pinchot, whom President TAT
recently caused to be deposed from tn,
position of chief forester of the Unite,
States, was on the ocean, already -four
Grant, on the way to meet ex-Presiden
Roosevelt, probably at Naples, Their,
was a sensation.
Mr.. Pinchot is due to Hamburg mex
Monday; Colonel Roosevelt is to arrive
at Naples on the following Saturday
The widely current runor here is tina;
Mr.. Plnchot goes to meet the returning
traveller in compliance with a summon:
received by cable last Friday. Nobody
in position to know would either con-
firm or deny this part of the story
There is no disposition to deny tina,
Mr.. Pinchot's principal errand abroad
is meet Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t is to be taken for granted that
the ex-president will receive from the
deposed chief forester, with whom he
was on peculiarly intimate terms. his
nrst information bearing on the Bal
hnger-Pinchot controversy from any of
the principals in that dispute. It was
rumored here yesterday that Senator
Root. member of the investigating
committee and secretary of state in the
Roosevelt cabinet. had written to Mr..
Roosevelt at khartoum on the subject.
Mr.. Root would not talk about the
matter and no confirmation of the
rumor was obtainable from any other
source. If it were true>G~hight afford
at least partial reason for the sup
posed cablegram to Mr.. Pinchot.
Mr.. Pinchots friends here scott at
the suggestion that he would quit the
investigation of the controversy in
which he is SO deeply concerned. on the
eve of Secretary Ballinger's going on
the stand. in order to seek. unlimited
an interview with the ex-president
On the other hand. those who know
Mr.. Roosevelt, say he is too good a
politician not to realize that to give
Pinchot an unsought hearing before he
had had an opportunity to discuss the
matter with President Taft or some
member of his political family, would
be generally regarded as a direct slap
at an administration he would natural
~ feel bound to support
Slipped Away Quietly.
Mr. Pinchot slipped away from
quietly last Friday even
ing and next day sailed from New
York for Europe His absence on Sat
urday from the Bafl&nger- hear
ing at which he has been a constant
attendant, attracted little attention.
Thomas r. Shipp. secretary of the
which Mr.. Pinchot is president, said
that the former forester had gone to
Europe for "a much needed vacation"
He said Mr.. Pinchot's side Of the case
aad practically all been presented and
ne felt it was an opportune time for
him to go, away. He admitted Mr.. Pin
shot had made up his mind about the
rip rather suddenly, but he professed
10 know nothing OF the reported
RooseveIt-Pinchot meeting. He did not
attempt to deny that Mr.. Pinchot
night see his former chief before he
to the United States. Mr..
Shipp issued the following formal
Mr.. Pinchot- sailed for Europe on
he President Grant of the Hamburg
American line last Saturday afternoon.
He will go to Copenhagen, Denmark,
where he will visit his sister, Lady
Johnston. Mr.. Pinchot has been work
ng hard and felt that a vacation for
l while would do him good. l do not
know when he will return. He has en-
,agements in the United States early
n May
The only address Mr. Pinchot left
behind him at his Washington resi-
lence was Copenhagen, and large.
lu,n Der of letters and kilograms are
,eing forwarded to him there in care
# his sister.
The former forester's mother ac-
him to New York but re-
NAMED there at the home of her other
on. Amos r. Pinchot. His private sec
etary remained behind. He also de-
Jared Mr.. Pinchot was simply going
broad for rest He said Mr.. Pinchot
vas expected back about April 90, in
which event the meeting would have to
axe place before Mr.. Roosevelt
cached London, as he is not due there
efore May Is.
CLAWS Surprised.
Mr.. CLAWS. the former chief field
gent of the general land office, who
as been closely associated with Pin
hot in the fight against Secretary
,allingA, said Mast night that he was
urprised to learn Mat Mr. Pinchot ha Il
one abroad and knew nothing of his
1ans. Nevertheless, it is accepted here
s a fact that Mr.. Pinchot is going to
Europe to meet Mr.. Roosevelt, altho
etails of the arrangements for the
Meeting are still obscure. II
In former days no one was more well
ONE or, in fact, more constant Wis
.or to the White House than Clifford
'inchot. He became a member of the
ew famous tennis cabinet" and to
IL appearances Pinchot was the synon-
m for President Roosevelts last word
I conservati ton. When Mr.. Roosevelt
etired he commended Pinchot highly
, President Taft and it was not until |