Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-07
.Pinchot, "Untagged,"
\ Ansluers His Critics
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slrat charge that you have no chance"''
fSHThnt IL the most easily disposed
~" and the Pinchot smile, breaking
tinto laugh, appeared again.
-"H I have no chance. why all this
M. why are all the other gentlemen
IA their friends so intensely eager to
taf some harmony candidate to lick
/ fhehot?' If am so unimportant, why
,Ilsuld anybody concern himself about
7my prospects, ,v
hind you?" I asked. care there any
Organizations. as such. training in your
amp? What's the character Of your
support for the nomination
They were direct and fortnight
reries. 1t was my desire to set down
10 facts on the question of his back.
hk
The candidate rose to the occasion.
Makes Appeal to Voter. Not Boss :
III you mean to ask II I have any
State leade: or organization behind
me, ] must say no. am not backed
by any organization. as such. although
there are organization men in q mum =
her OF COUNTIES who have written that
ltAU will support me. am a straight
Republican, and therefore entitled to
atanlzation votes II ! can get them"
What do you mean by organizat ton
men IN various counties?'
Men who belong to the Republican n
Shte an county organizations. Sher.
Vi, County Commissioners, Prothono- =
tafles and others, all of whom have q
nMD0naI FnlIn..ytp~ To-. 1,,s.
e9flcts. There are a number of coun :
~ whose leaders will deliver their
vMes to me. l am assured this on their
Iitten word. These" continued Mr..
rlehot. .'are in agricultural districts.
ian Is fight within the party, remem.
Il have never advertised the fact that
! an member Of the Grange. You
ptought the fact into prominence in the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER a few days
o. ! am a member Of the State
Siange. Patrons of Husbandry, and
aave been for years. am proud of the
nu' l am permanent chairman Of Its
.andlng Committee on Conservation
.aa Forestry. have for years been
sNVe in the affairs OF the organization
everything l have ever asked OF my
.alow'members Of the Grange, in con :
.lion with my committee WORK for
yen, has been granted. They have
~eted me up splendidly.
,Are you a farmer!'
| les, In the sense that I have been
Iaanslng farms all my life. Nv family
nVed In Pike County for 1O7 years,
ssa nave been interested in farms and
,Tsstry all my days. I've devoted my
.a 10 agricultural problems. 1t is BY
the Grange" ' VI
gidord Pinchot unconsciously. I
1, brought his long, lank form up-
~aWI,ng, as h" continued emphatically
"A I'm not out of the running. I'm In
~ now and propose to stay in it until
Is polls close and the question is de
pHed on the 10Th of May" and thu
,uimcnot inv, expressive of determine. .
Evidence. ''D'"' 81
experience as an Executive
% %noW about the assertion that YOU
w.. "Suiaht know how to handle things II
a were elected Governor; that you've
no experience in Government OF
aeentlve work."
pl.I That" said the gentleman from
n.sd s County C. lightly, lis easily dis.
a.. Gn doing little else than HANDLING
SWssntm SWsssnment propositions" Then hs
~Nsa Tor a moment,
n,;i alsIike to talk about myself" he
ri eued hesitatingly, "bur ! might a,
/ an oe br'ltally frank when / say thai
sS..,t .M,atements l make in reply to such
dosu1sons can be horne out by oficial
STehts and Government history.
,Isn ! rom 1892 to 1903 I was Ty profes.
M d. consulting forester, It was my
WORK. From 1893 to 1910 I was
lin. ns.er s OF the United States. At thai
ploi,s%ar national forests were being ex .
pr.dstnc,,w, pn, wasted, destroyed and seized BY
fl,taa nad force of eleven men and n
tn,,l gmce m in n corner of the Apricul .
III A., department at Washington when
ASt' 1hoertook the work of reclaimina
Uen,i1 i1p,iend!d ,and domainkhown as our ma
} 20 You know"-the speaker aimed
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