The Chitina leader., 1912-12-31
The story comes from Seattle

The story comes from a Seattle
writer that Portland politicians and
business men are attempting to pre-
vail on Charley Heifner to abandon
his ambition to be secretary of the in
terror; Hugh c. Wallace to give up
the idea of being acknowledgement
and George Turner to surrender any
claim he has to a, cabinet position
under President Woodrow Wilson and
give their endorsement to J. N. Teal,
a Webfoot attorney, whom the Ore
gonians would make secretary of the
interior.
Oregon is the only Coast state that
went Democratic and inasmuch as
that, commonwealth exercised re-
markable foresight endorsing Wilson
prior to the national convention, the
political record of Tears community
is perfect. In the East they regard
Oregon as strong Republican COM
monwealth, and to be able to deliver
it to Wilson is something of Demo-
cratic achievement.
In addition to helping Wilson onto
the list of executives, Oregon already
has one Democratic senator and DR..
Harry Lane, of Portland, is to be
elected as second Bourbon in the
upper house. Democratic senators
will be extremely useful to President
Wilson during his four years expert
enee at Washington and as there are
no Democratic senators in any of the
neighboring states Wilson will not
be worried much by opportunities of
other Democratic statesmen for West
ern favors.
The Portland AID Club has taken
up the fight on behalf of Joe" Teal.
In statement issued, enumerating
Mr.. Teals particular qualifications
for the Office of Secretary of the In
terror, the following are among the
reasons given:
Development of waterways, estab-
fishing arteries of commerce, has
been Teal work for thirty years.
He has become one of the greatest ex-
ponents of this cause in the country
"Mr. Teal led the Pacific Coast in
the fight for no tolls through the
Panama Canal on American coast
wise shipping. He was made chair
man of the committee that waged the
national campaign and won.
"Alaska's coal deposits, of the best
fuel found on all the American shores
of the Pacific, are sealed by inability
of the government to work out de-
velopment plan. Meanwhile, all
Coast industries dependent upon coal
suffer heavily. Mr.. Teal. a deep
student of the fuel problem, is the
one man to work out the solution and
get action.
Zone of the leading attorneys of
the West, Mr.. Teal has for years been
the guiding mind in the great rate
battle fought by the Northwestern
shippers and producers with the
transcontinental railways In this
work he has become national figure
Mineral and oil lands of vast area
have been withdrawn from entcg in
the West. Opportunity for private
prospecting and development mas
been removed. Some other ef1icaci-
Gus plan must be offered, else mineral
developments in the West will suffer.
Mr.. Teal above all other Western
men, has the knowledge and tact to
get action here.
''In some Eastern communities, a
royalty tax is being urged for the
natural resources of the West retain
ed by the federal government, as a
feature of whatever development
plan is adopted. Conservation does
not mean burdening the West in it's
industrial development. This error
must be combatted by such a man as
Mr.. Teal, who can measure the CRAWL
ty of the situation"
KruZgamepa is a settlement pretty
close to the Arctic Circle, but men