The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-19
IN WILLIAM HARD.

With Calvin Coolidge, OF Massa-
chusetts, and Frank o. Lowden,
lof Illinois, listed as the favorite
Presidential candidates Of many
of the Republican regulars, :
there now come forward two
potential candidates who may be
said to represent the aspirations
Of many Of the "Rooseveltians. !"
These two candidates are Pin
chot, Of Pennsylvania, and john
son, Of California, both Of whom
were devoted followers Of the
elder Roosevelt in his departure
from the Republican party out
into the wilderness in 1912.
Pinchot is in some ways more
conservative than johnson. In 1920
he was a supporter of Gen. Leonard
Wood for the Republican Presi-
Dental nomination. Johnson, even
/ IL he had not himself been can
didate for the nomination, could
hardly have supported Wood. He
would probably have regarded Wood
as being too closely allied to IRE
dictionary interests.
Again there is difference be-
tween Pinchot and Johnson in mat
tiers Of foreign policy. johnson is
| the most vigorous and continued
existing attacker Of all projects for
taking the United States into any
sort of 4 international political or
| ganization. Pinchot, on the other
hand leans rather heavily by tenn
permanent toward internationalistic
experiments.
Wife . Partner.
1t should be added that Mrs.
Pinchot leans extremely enthusi-
astically that way. Mrs Pinchot
| is brilliant valuable partner Of
her husbands in, all his public en-
deavors. +; "
/ Both the Pinchots Clifford and
national good works and toward al
| other sorts OF good works. Pin
chot's principal asset in politics is
his strength among the people who
are commonly called by some
politicians the moral element.
| This element was the backbone OF
the vote which put Pinchot into the
governors chair at Harrisburg.
In harmony with the principles OF
| this element Pinchot is both per
sonally and politically confirmed
and jealous and joyous dry. He
not only supports prohibition but
likes it. In his big house in Wash
| ington, where Senators and d1plo-
mats would naturally expect plenty
| of champagne, they get nothing Tor
beverage purposes but plenty OF
water and ginger ale.
Follows Principles.
Pinchot's principles apply to HIM
self as well as to his constituents
and they show in his face. One OF
WashinRton's most distinguished
statesmen, who himself is a
potential candidate for the pres
idency. remarked the other day:
"Pinchot is the only man have
ever known about whom / could
use the word spirituelle.
Along with this quality of purity
he has a quality which often goes
with it, namely. the quality of pug
nacity. He is always conducting
wars. He fights graft and he fights
rum. AS Chief Forester of the
United States under Taft, he fought
Taft. AS an officer of the Food
Administration under Hoover dur
ing the war, he fought Hoover;
and he fought him until there was
a final complete break between the
two men.
Pinchot is spiritually minded
person who seems to live to illus.
trate the truth which Padraic
Pearse, the Irish patriot, expressed
when he said:
Fighting is the only noble thing
and he alone is at peace with God
who is at war with evil"
Taft was for Pinchot a power of
evil; and so was Hoover and SO
| We're, and are, many other men; and
this fact is Pinchot's great handi-
cap among practical politicians"
Feared by Politicians.
They always fear that he will
discover that somebody mas become
| the successor to Taft and to Hoover
as power of evil and that he
thereupon will start another war.
But lately Pinchot has shown a
more accommodating spirit; and in
the course of his campaign for
election as governor of Pennsyl-
vania he accepted the support of
| many veterans of the old ReNub,
lican regular Penrose machine.
1t is believed, however, that most
members Of the present Republican
organization of Pennsylvania will
| turn to Senator George Wharton
Pepper rather than to Pinchot as
Pennsylvania Presidential "favoIite
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