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Show "I DO NOT FEAR THE CRITICiSr says secretary ballinger SEATTLE, Wash. Sept. 7 Secretary Secre-tary of the InterlorBallinger at tho Arctic club smoker, given In hou-jr of Secretary of Commerce, and Labor Nagel and Attorney General Wicker-f.ham, Wicker-f.ham, spoke bitterly of his detractors. detrac-tors. "With my consciousness of rectitude recti-tude In every act, pnhJic and private, and with my determination to go forward for-ward in the same path. I do not fear the criticism of any man or et of men." said the secretary. "it is a time for men to stand by the laws and institutions of our fa-' thcrs From the head of the administration admin-istration through all the departments there Is a determination to uphold the constitution and laws and hand them down unimpaired It has been said that the criticism of me, whether wheth-er true or untrue, has made me unfit un-fit to bold office If this Is lire, case, then every public man may be disqualified bv the attacks of the disingenuous, the hypocrite and the fanatic. "I don't propose to enter a plea of guilty, because . there Is not one particle par-ticle of truth in all the allegations brought against me, and I shall take none of your time In making a defense, de-fense, for In this community I need no defense." Secretary Halllnger was received with long applause from his hearers when Introduced by United States District Judge Cornelius II. llanford. who made the Bnllinger-Plnchot committee com-mittee meeting In Minneapolis today the subject of his discourse. The ! Judge declared that Mr. Balllnger had been singled out as the object of tho I malevolence of muckrakers and denounced de-nounced tho action taken at Mlnne-nKlls Mlnne-nKlls today as "an outrage unparalleled." unparal-leled." I : |