EDITORIALS
Was Ballinger Whitewashed? NOTHING in the cancellation of the notorious Cunningham claims by the government is more significant than the manner in which the decision of Secretary Fisher and...
...But the question the people are asking now is, "Why was not this decision made two years ago...
...shown in rooms behind locked doors and drawn blinds...
...We need, more and more, great newspapers that place public interest above every other consideration, such as, for example, the Philadelphia North American and the Kansas City Star...
...At Washington last week, Hines testified again under oath that both Taft and Aldrich interested themselves in helping to bring about the election of William Lorimer...
...We made them do it...
...This time Hines has added new details, including a midnight visit of Aldrich to the White House, which make all the more imperative the full and complete disclosure of the truth about this alleged participation of the President of the United States in this notorious election...
...Whereupon they went in Aldrich's car to Aldrich's home...
...I believe it will be found that that telegram helped to pull into line for the candidacy of William Lorimer Republican members of the Legislature of Illinois who could not be prevailed upon by any argument to support him...
...For Other Purposes" PRESIDENT TAFT'S Canadian deal, now pending before the Senate for ratification, is embodied in a measure which is entitled, "An act to promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes...
...Which is the truth...
...it was expected...
...When Aldrich returned, he authorized Hines to assure the managers at Springfield that President Taft wanted Lorimer elected—and that, too, without delay...
...ROOSEVELT, 182...
...The announcement that a new morning paper is to be published in Los Angeles, the Tribune, pledged to serve the truth, is cause for congratulation...
...Much will depend upon his testimony...
...Wilson, 1856...
...We have all along been convinced, on the evidence, of the fraudulent character of these entries...
...It was met with interest, to be sure, but with none of the manifestations of approval and jubilation that usually attend a victory of Uncle Sam over predatory interests...
...lF FRANCE, England, United States and Japan made a solemn pact never to ight one another again for any reason, real or fancied, a large section of our little footstool would havt taken the most sensible move in about forty centuries.—Milwaukee Journal...
...It has taken us two years to force this decision from the present Administration...
...He supplemented this with a telegram...
...Regarding it, Senator La Follette said on May 24, on the floor of the Senate: "If a committee is ever raised to make this investigation, and it does its work as a committee of the Senate should, I believe it will be found that there was a telegram shown in which President Taft's name was used...
...Clark, 384...
...They had to make that decision...
...The last words of the title, "and for other purposes," describe more accurately the nature of the measure...
...From the White House it is given out that the President had no interest in LoR-IMEr's election, but that he did want a Republican chosen...
...The Los Angeles Tribune WE NEED fearless, progressive, truthful newspapers today as never before...
...What has happened in the interim to cause Taft to accept, without resentment, this decision of his new Secretary of the Interior...
...What Will Aldrich Say...
...For other purposes," it is easy to see, amply covers such interesting little provisions as increased protection to the millers, increased protection to the packers, increased traffic for the railroads, not to speak of the increased burden for the farmers...
...La Follette, 165...
...Either Hines has sworn falsely, or Aldrich acted as the messenger to get from President Taft, at a midnight meeting, the assurance that the President wanted Lorimer elected...
...There are no new facts...
...Hines demurred...
...ALDRICH SHOULD TESTIFY...
...That is what we said when Edward Hines told the Helm investigating committee at Springfield that President Taft and Senator Aldrich had interested themselves in LorimeR's election...
...Aldrich has not yet broken his silence...
...Popular government is based upon public opinion...
...At that time it was charged by President Taft that those who were throwing the light of publicity upon these claims were engaged in a foul conspiracy against the President and Secretary Ballinger...
...yet today these same claims are cancelled as a matter of simple public justice...
...The beginning of that title is somewhat obscure, since not a single advocate of this pact has yet succeeded in demonstrating that there is one iota of reciprocity in it...
...The press is the molder of public opinion...
...No other course was left to the Administration...
...Hines hurried to the telephone to send the glad tidings to the Lorimer forces...
...Harmon, 18...
...Instead there was only grim satisfaction...
...There Hines waited while Aldrich hastened alone to the White House for a midnight conference with Taft...
...Signs HERE IS the result of a straw ballot taken by the Pottsville Chronicle, a Democratic newspaper in Pennsylvania...
...To the extent that the press is subsidized or corrupted, is public opinion perverted...
...That was sufficient...
...President Taft has issued general denials...
...How potent was this message in swinging the election Lorimerwise may never be fully known...
...It was as if the people were saying, "Naturally...
...We repeat it now...
...May it become a clear and lusty medium through which the desires and aspirations of the people will find expression...
...We should therefore fight the control of the press by special privilege seeking interests as we would fight corruption in public or private life...
...There is food for thought in the fact that out of more than 2,500 Democrats in one state less than a score expressed a preference for the first choice of Big Business Democrats, while 347 of them turned to Progressive Republicans...
...Secretary Fisher could not, on the facts, have acted otherwise...
...shown under stipulations of and under seals of confidence, as though there was something sacred about it...
...NOTHING in the cancellation of the notorious Cunningham claims by the government is more significant than the manner in which the decision of Secretary Fisher and Commissioner Dennett was received by the country...
...Following is the substance of the tale Hines unfolded to the Senate investigating committee: Two or three nights before Lorimer was elected, Hines was urged by Aldrich to accompany him to the White House to discuss the Illinois situation with President Taft...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 27
