The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
TAFT MUST FIGHT
 FOR NOMINATION Will Face COnservatiOnists
 in Kansas City TO ANSWER CRITICS Secretary Fisher Has Been Called Back From Alaska to Give
 the President First Hand
 Information
By JONATHAN WINFIELD

| Washington, September 9.-(Special. J.
 President Taft knows he wil have to fight | for renomination, and he will leave no
 stone unturned to grasp the prize. An
 instance of this is found in the announce
 ment from. headquarters of the National
 Conservation association that the Pres- ident will address the congress in Kansas
 City this month, September.
 | There will be large attendance of con lservationsts from every part of tho United States-farmers, ranch owners, timber owners, and others. The President
 will have great opportunity to show his hand, to ease the rough road of tariff re- vision, to launch his arrows ofsbitter ce- nunciation of the insurgents and progress sives and to urge the cooperation and sup port of the delegates in pulling through
 the policies of the Taft administration in the coming important session of Con. gress.
 Tn accepting the invitation to address the congress, President Taft struck the nail on the head. The acceptance was so timed as to make 1t coincident with the Inauguration of his hand to hand warfare against the insurgent leaders, started sev eral weeks ago.
 It is expected that President Taft will use this opportunity to defend his action in the Controller bay matter and his pol icies of conservation, which differ from Ithose advocated by Clifford Pinchot, pres iident of the congress, and enemy of Former Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger, who was a member of Taft's |cabinet.
 The gathering Will bring together much presidential timber, although 1t is a Con gress of practical conservationists. The farming element will predominate and the agricultural enthusiasts are expected to be well represented. It is to this class that the President will appeal in what is ex- pected to be one of the most sensational speeches he has yet made.
 Secretary of Interior Fisher, who Is now in Alaska on an inspection tour, has been hurriedly summoned to attend the con gress. He will be there with first hand information concerning all the charges that have been made against the Taft ad- ministration of affairs in Alaska. He Is expected to address the congress on the conservation policy of the Taft adminis- tration in the territory.
 His words, 1t is expected, will have a. deep significance, almost as much as the address that is to be made by President Taft. Fisher has always been an enthu- siastic conservationist, red hot supporter of the Pinchot policies. He still is, but at the same time he is an enthusiastic sup porter of President Taft, and has done much to foster a relationship between the Pinchot conservationsts and the Taft sun porters.
 President Taft and Secretary Fisher have arranged a conference at Kanss City on Alskan affairs with special reference to the resumption of the Controller hay inquiry. If MT. Taft devotes his address to an effort to deliver blow to the in- 'quiry that is being made by congress sional committee into the Controller bay matter 1t will result in a big fight, it Is thought in the convention.
 As Pinchot and Roosevelt have com mitted themselves to public and unq,ali- fled denuncittions of the administration s dealings in the Controller bay affair, it is expected that President Taft will utilize his opportunity to reply to his critics in no uncertain terms His re- marks will be timely, for at about the time that the President addresses the Congress the Controller bay hearings will be resumed in Washington
 The President will not only answer his critics. but will, 1t is said. force the issue. He will have the opportunity of using fresh material gathered by his cabInent Secretary Fisher for the first time. and may denounce as "conspracy'' the whole Controller bay inquiry and the charges back of it.. By these tactics he may sweep the convention off It's feey, and seize from the grasp of Pinchot an indorsement that wduld be of the greatest political significance t If the Presidents speech should turn put to he a defense of the Alaska matter.