The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-06
PORK BARREL MEN
FACE HARD FIGHT
Administration Is Conducting
Campaign Against Federal
Aid for Good Roads
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
FIGURES IN CONTEST
John A. Stewart, At Dinner
ofAutomoblie Club, Goes
On Record Against
Unlimited Grab

Washington correspondents who
have the government cal are sending
out dispatches showing the attilu.ia
OF the administration on ederAI aid
IN the building of good ROADS, aud
also on the Lincoln memorial. M.
aAty Richmond but ALA iKinia, Ia =
interested in the latter project be-
cause of the GETTYSBURG highway ard
the Richmond to Washington pro-
jects.
One correspondent writes:
Advocates OF a national memorial
to Abraham Lincoln have just nwak-
ened to the fact that a determined
movement Is underway In Congress
to divert the sz.0o0.0oo appropriated
for a memorial to be erected In this
city and use IL instead TO begin .ho
construction of a Lincoln Memorial
Road" to extend from Washington TO
Gettysburg. This scheme to defeat
the artistic sense Of the country Is
organized under the name OF the LIN
coin Memorial Road Ass ociation OF
america. The president. James r.
McCleary. OF Minnesota, was for
many years a member OF Congress,
and, as a member Of the COMMITTEES
on Ways and Means, a devoted stand
patter Of the type Of Cannon and Dali
zeIl. Upon his defeat by a Democrat
which was repeated on a second
trial also-Mr. McCleary was made
second assistant postmaster general.
and upon retirement from tina. posi-.
ton he associated himself with the
Gettysburg project, Charles J. Gid
den, OF Massachusetts,. who appears
upon the stationery of the association
as its secretary. is known AL DER
the world as the pioneer autpmob.l-
Xxt .Sri- 4A1
runs which are now universally
known by his name. A son Of exc
Representative McCieary In executive
secretary of the association, but hts
address does net appear upon Its let-
ter head. Headquarters apparently
are In Washington, II not Ia the sad
die. A
Artists Approve Potomac sta
II will Re recalled that The Washs
tngrun Park Commission. of which
u. II. Burnham. Charles r. Mckim,
Augustus SAINT Gaudens and +. II
Olmsted. were members, recommends
ed a site for the Lincoln mem ,rial
on the bank OF the Potomac at tho
foot Of the mail. President Hoosv-
velt's Fine Arts Council approved
this site, and II was approved again
by the National Fine Arts Commits
sion, established By law under tho
Taft administration. The FTHe Arts
Commission rendered. Judgment IN IT.
cordance with a request for Its optn-
ion made by the congressional l-iii-
coin Memorial Commissions, headed ey
Shelby NJ. Cullom In the senate and
Samuel W. Mccall In tina House, OF
which President Taft Is also q msm~
Der. The Fine Arts Commission exs
amined all sites and projects sug.
~
non plan OF An addition to the unton
railway station, the roadway to Got.
tysburK and 4 fantastic scheme to
rae the beautiful French and Dutch
diplomatic buildings anad the resis
dence OF Secretary MacVeagh on Stxs
teenth street. and 70 install the mfs-
mortal there. The commission unan~
imousiy approved the Potomac pros
ject and the art societies Of the couas
try have sustained its Judgment.
Trying TO Grab ~ 0OO.c"O.
Mr. acCicary's organization y
working hard TO undo thu WORK oS
Congress and deprive Washington OF
what should constitute its most note
worthy example Of pure artistic ak
preston. The association IL sending
broadcast u circular letter urging
voters to memorabilia their congress-
men in favor OF the Gettysburg
scheme. I'm the present law" says
the letter. there IN q provision ra-
strictins the memorial TO some struos
ture wholly within the city OF Wash-
ingtor. but the matter OF making the
$4,000. 900 available for tho plan OF
Including a memorial road u wholly
within the power and discretion %
Congress.
III You believe that tho road 70
Gettysburg, with 4 magnificent mo
mortal efitrAnce III washington and =
fitting terminal structure at 0ettyus
burg, would be q better memorial to
Lincoln than one restricted to an or.
namental building or monument II
Washington. won't you please write
TO your member Of Congress. the two
United States senator's from your
State and the President Of the United
sstatsss. xx:x.Ey41hax.YtcS nSnz. AheeESAst,
which includes the -hiaeasn MeMofsAsr
Road? A personal letter on your own
stationery would be the most effective,
but to save time the encfoscd forn1
may be detached. signed and forward.
ed TO Washington"
Tho letter further promises thas
should the Gettysburg road be cons
structed. 1t will through its extensions
rapidly develop into 4 tranHcontinentaI
highway and become the nucleus OF =
great national system OF pubic ROADS
binding together all sections OF the
nation. EVERY city. town and hamlet
in the country wifi hnlld q highway
to connect with some extension ef the.
tncutn road. II the ambftiouS cons
cluaion OF the author OF the circular.
Speaker Champ Clark. too. II quoted
with the significant phrese: Il be.
neve the building Of the lincoln roA0
win Sc the enterir~ WEDGE for the
creation ct = splendid system Of hixh
ways"
Enormous Cost o. 0sttvsburs Plan.
Now that the McClsarv family havo
started writing. Glenn Brown. secre.
tary Of the American Institute ux.
Architects. has taken his pen Ia hand
and RATED up circular giving sofn6
data on the cost and mainfensnce e
such boomers pf666eA BaSing hf1
ngurea unnn m estimate mazda n 141o
ny tho EN91wppp GCfUa a. the arms