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Show PINCHOT BLAMED. For some time after the defeat of Mr. Hughes for president there was a general disposition to make Chairman Willcox the "goat," but it now appears that there were others. Just now the observers seem to have agreed to lay part of the blame for the Republican catastrophe upon Clifford Pinchot, and, come to think of it, there is much reason rea-son for the belief that the appearance of the former chief of the forestry bureau bu-reau in the west in support of Mr. Hughes had a boomerang effect and that many thousands of voters turned to Mr. Wilson 'because they feared Pinchot or Garfield would become secretary of the interior and still further retard the development de-velopment of the public land states. This is particularly true of California and Colorado, and while the latter probably prob-ably would have been Democratic in any event the former might have been saved had Pinchot been kept out of the state. At least this is the calm and deliberate de-liberate view of some who have considered con-sidered the matter and taken note of the defection in the Golden state, where a couple of thousand votes would have turned the state in favor of Mr. Hughes. ' |