The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
P|NCHOT MAKES
 INITIAL SPEECH Blasts Bosses and BOssism
 in Medina Address DRAWS COMPARISONS In First Speech in Ohio's Progressive Republican Campaign" Pleas for Overthrow of Party Bosses.
 \ Fling at Standard Oil

Medina. O.. December 29.-Gifford Pm ehot. nresident of the American ConserVa- ton congress, and friend and eonhdant ol Theodore Roosevelt, made the first of his sneeches in Ohio's progressive repuohe- an campaign" before a large audience here tonight His hearers were aroused 10 great enthusiasm by his plea for over throw of party bdA Aes. His reference to his personal relations with Senator La Toilette also brought forth applause
 "To the boss a party is not prin- eiple. but a tool" said MT. Pinchet. Tn New York state. for example, Murphy is a democrat, Barnes a republican. Both alike stand for all that is shameless and all that is unfair in political life me one clear distinction between them is this: that Murphy rose from an humble ori- gin to his present bad eminenee, while Barnes. beginning with the advantages of birth. breeding and university training prostituted them all to the service of one of the most corrupt political machines Of our day.
 q see little to choose between Penrose' servant of the Pennsylvania railroad leader of the regular republicans in the Senate. and adviser of the administration of Herrin. the declared and political man. ager for the Southern Pacific except this: Herrin has already been driven from po- litical life. while Penrose soon will be. Roger Sullivan of Illinois, Boss Cox of Cincinnati and countless others are known as undeniable examples of the existence and power of special privileges in poll tics.
 What chance has the average man to make himself felt in politics where such conditions exist? The boss system is by it's very nature denial of effective po- litieal llberty.n
 After this MT. Pinchot took a fling at the Standard Oil company, assailed the dissolution of the so called tobacco trust" and then made a plea for Senator LaFollette in his candidacy for the re- publican presidential nomination.
 Now I want to tell you little about Bob LaFollette,' he said Five or six years ago a senator began to drop into the forest service office. The curious fact about it was that he came of his own motion to help the service. and he was about the only one who did. Until that time I had known him merely by repu- tation-that he was solitary man in the capital. frowned upon and sneered at, feared and disliked by the old leaders; for he represented a point of view which had then many less followers in the Sen ate than it has today.
 "I watched his fights and saw that he had courage l watched the legislation he supported and saw that he had com mon sense l came to understand what he had done and saw that he was wise As l got to know him I found him as loveable as he was strong. I began to ask his help and when I asked I got it both to fight bad bills and to get good bills passed
 Speaking of the Alaskan situation, MT. Pinchot said
 Special privilege lies at the root of the attempt not vet defeat ted to monopo- Iize the resources of Alaska. It is the hope of undue advantage which incites the grabbers of water power, the public timber and the public lands. Nearly every serious defect in the working of our gov ernment can be traced to the corruption alliance of money and politics in search or special privileges or to defects in the forms of operations of our government which invite men to seek undue advan- tage over their fellows or make it easy for them to gain and use it."