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Show PRESIDENT WILSON'S BALLINGER (New York American) Thfl common report in Washington that Attorney General McReynolds has offered his resignation is rather too .uod to be tru'- Every possible reason exists for tin; report. One reason alone argues against it. That1 reason Is McRe) nolds Obviously he is in the cabinet asi the railroads' representative. The' , railroads will not willingly let hlrn go They win let the president let him gc What is the use of a railroad rail-road administration without a railroad rail-road man at the head of the department depart-ment of Justice"1 McReynolds knows what ho le there for and it will go harder yet with him before he re-signs re-signs President Taft suffered from the presence In his cabinet of a man representing a special Interest. The echoes of the Balllnger case havt hardly yet ceased to reverberate oinong the political crags and hills. Ballmger was not more scandalously friendly and serviceable to the Alaska Alas-ka looters than McReynolds has been scandalously friendly and serviceable to the New Haven looters. Balllnger had the grace to resign, but the long refusal of President Taft to nceept the resignation, coupled with the words of eulogy which attended at-tended its final acceptance, formed serious counts in the subsequent indictment in-dictment of Taft. President Wilson'b predecessor paid dearlv for Balllnger. the friend of the Quggenhelms. This administration will pay dearly for McReynolds, the friend of the Morgans, unless it promptly gets rid of him. In the searching probe of New Haven affairs which Mr. Folk is now conducting the administration has no share The inquiry is due to a reso lutlon of the United States senate, introduced in-troduced by a Republican As mat ters now stand the only part taken by the administration in the matter is the repeated efforts of its chief law officer McReynolds to call the Investigation off These efforts have neither been repudiated nor rebuked by the president and the attorney general Is still not doing business at the old stand when the business concerns enforcing the law against the Nw Haven wreckers Th-? country will appreciate the fact that the Administration is somewhat overpref-ped by railroad demands just now. The project of shutting the Piin.nma canal to American coastwise shipping lest railroad rates be cut down in engaging so much of its time that it may have overlooked the extent ex-tent d! the railroad occupation of the attorney general s office. Saving the national honor and the railroads' profits at Panama have dlvorted attention from Baviug the property of widows and orphans in New Haven stock. But no administration could ever satisfv at the same time the railroads and the people. In time President Wilson will have to make his choice, So long as McReynolds stays in the cabinet it is fair to infer that the , choice fulls on the railroad side. |
