The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-26
An Orator in the Saddle.
(Cordova Times.)

(CordoVa TimeSD
 By of the. curious accidents of politics the Republican nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania has fallen upon the voice which tinked forth from Harrisburg between 1923 and 1927 It is voice crying in the wilderness in the suburbs, in the cteS-anywhere it's owner happens to be at the moment, but always audible. MT. Pinchot dis tinguished himself Governor by the violence and futility with which he attacked President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon Prohibition, by the fatal results with which he espoused the hopeless cause of wartime scale of wages for the soft coal miners of Western Pennsylvania and the unintel- ligible noise he made about giant power"
 We of the North have a distinct memory of Clifford Pinchot. More than twenty years ago and during time of the administration of President Taft we have knowledge that MT. Pinchot was Chief Forester, And know that he was very much concerned about tying up the natural re- sources of Alaska He had grave fear that the coal land of the Boring River district was to be throt- tied or scuttled by the Guggenheims, and he made great acclaim over the presumed dissertation And he had violent disagreement with the then Sec retary of the Interior, Richard A. Ballinger. And Clifford finally found it to his advantage to retire from public life.
 But shortly after he formed Investigating party and injected himself "in person" into the coal fields of the North. And he within the confines of the ambitious young City of Cordova. And he predicted many dire happenings. But we find that after twenty years nothing really serious has happened-and that the Boring River coal fields at katala are still undevloped They are preserved for posterity and knows which generation is to see their operation But Clifford had his talk and possibly now has forgotten all about it, since he has directed his eloquence to more modern subject.
 If the Republican nomination is equivalent to election, it usually is in his State, the country will again have the pleasure of hearing MT. Pin chot's serial explanation of how other mems devil tries prevent him from ushering the millennium he knows well how to conduct There is just a chance, however that the voice that launched thousand slips will have to find ones to hold the public interest another four years Cool idges reputation only enhanced by the unjusti- fled attacks which left him imperturbed. Secretary Mellon is stronger than in the admiration of country whose postwar finances he has made the envy of Europe The soft coal miners of Western Pennsylvania have had time to reflect that they might have saved their union if MT Pinchot had not disastrously befrended them.
 MT Pinchot shrinking violet that he always enthusiastically halls his nomination a triumph of "the forces of clean government" Politely SUD- pressing a yawn this, may concede that the voters of Pennsylvania had perhaps tired of men like Ware and even of the unsuitable protec- tionist Grundy. As he finds time, MT Pinchot will also claim the Republican Party of Pennsylvania for Prohibition little nonsense and then is relished by the purest of reformers But it may be noted that in the primary cleo tion Phillips the avowed wet, boiled 260001 votes and the moist Francis Shunk Brown 608,000 total of 868,O0o against Clifford Pinchot's 618,ooO.