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CONSERVATION 



the Catskills, the White Mountains, in 

 Maine, in the forested mountain regions 

 of Pennsylvannia, and every other east- 

 ern state. 



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Obstructionists Retired 



THE fact that several of the house 

 and senate "unr'esirables" have been 

 retired to private hfe during the past 

 summer is surely indicative of an 

 aroused and healthy public sentiment. 

 Jenkins, of W'isconsin ; Ankeny, of 



Forest Fire in Colorado 



Washington ; Long, of Kansas, and 

 others have met with the down-turned 

 thumbs in the political arena, and will 

 be in a position to obstruct necessary 

 and publicly-demanded reforms but a 

 short time only. A reorganization of 

 the House Judiciary Committee — that 

 graveyard of legislation — is made 

 necessary by the retirement of Repre- 

 sentative Jenkins ; and it is not at all 

 unlikely that still other retirements will 

 occur at the coming election. Voters 

 all ©ver the country have this summer 

 demonstrated a marked ability to think, 

 and with the coming of a thinking 

 electorate the political extinguishment 

 of men like those mentioned above is 



clearly in sight. Speaker Cannon him- 

 self is having the fight of his life in the 

 Danville, 111., district, and there is a 

 good chance that the Speaker may be 

 forced to remain at home at the close 

 of his present term of ofiice. Reports 

 from Illinois indicate that the Speaker 

 of the House has his back to the wall, 

 and it is certain that he has this: sum- 

 mer been forced into the hardest fight 

 of his political career. It was hopied by 

 campaign managers that Mr. Cannon 

 would be able to give some of his time 

 to the National Campaign 

 Committee, and that he would 

 be in a position to make 

 speeches at many points in 

 the East and Middle West; 

 but the fight waged against 

 him by the decent element 

 of his district and the state 

 of Illinois at large, that fight 

 being led by the authori- 

 ties of the Methodist Church, 

 has kept the Speaker close at 

 home, mending his own 

 fences, instead of allowing 

 him to lend his aid in the 

 National campaign. Recent 

 reports of Mr. Cannon's ut- 

 terances in the conduct of 

 his present campaign, quote 

 him as resorting to his characteristic 

 billingsgate and abusive profanity, and 

 it is more than intimated that this course 

 has alienated many voters who other- 

 wise would have supported him. If 

 the report is true, it is an unmistakable 

 indication of the fact that Mr. Cannon 

 realizes the seriousness of the fight in 

 which he is engaged, and that he is, to 

 use a slang expression, "on the run." 

 It is to be hoped that those who are 

 actively opposing him will keep him in 

 that condition from now until the con- 

 clusion of the campaign. It would in- 

 deed be an augur of great things for 

 the nation if Mr. Cannon's constituents 

 were to keep him at Danville from now 

 on. 



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