Show I I I J j i I l f FALSE SA SAYS YS LAYER LAWYER r Ballingers Attorney Declares Glavis GIavis and Others Uttered I Gross Folse o s sI I VERTREES STATEMENT S i SLAM ROOSEVELT AT t Field Agent Glavis Comes om s in For Bitter Scoring and Others hers i Arc Are Attacked d 7 I Washington on March M After the tho er Investigating In com I tec hud had declined in 0 grant 1 the request ol of A U Brandel rep j resenting Louis Lotus R n Ints and anul others to compel flip thur Immediate attendance tt I Ici ol ci Secretary r as aa 3 witness I John Johll J I today tod made the I II opening statement In rs be hi behalf half nod began an the th presentation pr se of testimony l Mr os declared I that the testimony Gla GI IS s aud oth others others ers would bo be o shown to bo ho grossly gro sl false fals I There is iK no act f Mr Ir asserted the Uie Y to which It is possible to an au unworthy mo mn motive I tive thc or improper purpose otherwise oth than through tho lie suspicion n of o a per perverted v mind or II the resentment of a u 1 discharged public servant s nn or the pro program program gram ram of or an nn in intrigue 1 Mr Vei trees statement sparkled d with epigrams In ono one of oC those these re referring referring I ferring to the th acts of officers of o the thelast thelast last administration tho the attorney said There was vas the of f men mc Mar jar jart 4 t 1900 J came clune tho th IO n oC law lut Ii Although Mr Ir Vendees was particularly ninny to l r Garfield J and anih PInchot some Rome members of or th lh the I committee after arter adjournment ment wco In Inclined dined to construe the tae statement as asa asa asa i a fling at Mr oil Roosevelt and so ex cx II pressed themselves Glavis lo Is Scored I Patriot came 1110 In Iri for a haro ar c share of Mr attention Olas is suspicious by b nature be became b became I came perverted by It i y dot service Glavis d to ta he be honest and known to tit bc bable Glavis GIns is r I 1 tP Is s to lo be as toa Vt Y braot no pp sug suggestion ion Mr Ir Vertrees also aio dwelt at nt length upon Gifford PInchot and the tho Pin Pinchot I chot eliot service as ho chose to w designate the forestry Mr Ir PInchot hot vain nin and flattered by his hl own O n publicity bureau PInchot ceased to be the thc depart department I ment of agriculture n H ITt He was aR aa exposed and Mr er had haul committed the unpardonable sin sinI in I of oC defeating th ambition Ion of a self s lf exaggerated man I Here was the bIrth place of o that spirit of resentment and revenge to assassinate the good name of Mr Ir Ballinger and md bring brine re reproach reproach on the president of o tho the United States who had not retained Mr Ir Gar Car Carfield Held field and antI had dismissed Mr Ir PInchot Of or Mr Ir the tha attorney said saidI What Ballinger BaIlinger Thinks Think I Mr Ir Ballinger holds that conser conservation con r I mUon Is not a thing of o caprice but I of law True Truc conservatism has no sturdier supporter than ho lie Those who have already been born bornand bornand and now breathe have rights ri as well I as those yet to bo ho born and yet ct to breathe Development t ought not to be ex ox exiled I lied by b theorists and doctrinaires In to entry vast ast areas I of the public domain which he be believed b to ave ae been wrongfully with withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn I drawn Mr Ir Ballinger still believes bo ho was right but if he erred ho he denies i t that It was waft an error for which tho the good faith alth of f his official action should I be bo questioned by ity those who would substitute opinion for law Not ot a site was lost He could have transferred s Mr Glavis at any an time alme and would have hae doue so had he been mind mimI minded ed to about the lie Improper ac action acion lion ion which patriot Glavis was pro pre preventing venting and thwarting where he ho was Mr Ir Vertrees statement was a long hong longone longone one going into the details of oC pra practically every con phase of the case He said it would bo ho shown that as re rc regards regards gards the thi Cunningham and amI in all other matters Mr Ballinger was Wul clean handed and that his hili actions had been those of oC an honest and up upright upright right citizen and official |