The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-29
They Are Afraid of His Posi-
ton On the League of Ma
tions-Prefer Andrew Mel
lon
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
National Political Correspondent OF the
IntelliecnCcr and New York
Evening Post.

Washington. Jan. 3S--The pressu"" 10
maucuvrr Harding into substituting
Andrew Mellon in the place of Charles
G.. Dawes. Of Chicago for Secretary OF
the Treasury comes from Il group who
are Old Guard leaders aud also violent
.rrocuncilahlc$. Some Of tho irreconcii
ahcs cant get away from their League
oC Nations ohEcssion. They have a
, kind of a rabies on the subject Not
content with the result Of the election
they like to go back Ia IL and PICK II
up in their teeth and shake II.
They have invented the theory that.
% regards to tho League Of Nations,
Dawes is not. from their point OF view
700 pcr cent pure. During the war
Dawes spent considerable time abroad
m charge Of the purchasing Of supplies
not merely for tho American Army nut
for ali the Allies. IN that connection
THESE irr.cunriia hlcS have suspicion
Mr. dawes may have had cont Eliminating
rontrnCtS with Eurrocan statesmen. fHr-
,hrr than this these irroConctlableS are
unrayv over 4 runner that Dawes once
made 4 speech TINT leaned toward Inc
I.rag cue of Nations.
Also. they have invented nh "sotcr!c
distinction between international bank
rrs on ia" one hand, who ar" sup
roscd to have unclean !canings toward
tho League or Nations; and, on me
,Ihrp hand, what they term internal
bnukers.". Superiority Dawes. AS head
,r 4 Chicago bank. would seem 10 h"
inst rs much an internal" banker as
MELLON at the head OF II Pittsburgh
hank But the irrccorcilablrS nave
rpur,d ont some kind OF distinction be-
tween the two.
Senator TcDrose makes this dis-unc-
,!un one OF hts permanent ruIIl'Ca'
.,NI,,uv H.. says that n he has 10
Get in bed with the big business h" =
going TO choose as his bed fellows thc
,vp" Of big business man WI" Keeps
Lie money AZ HON" and develops inc
country, like Standard oil, and not
what pcnrosr calls these ht"rhh-
,,,nol uotcshaveTs." Economists may
rnr h, able to x" ali III" way WIN
rcnrosr in recognizing any particular
I.tinr,frn Of merit between bankers
,yb, facilitate production and bankers
who facilitate foreign markets.; Dut as
=, matter u practical pu!iuccs II IL hu't
Ono If p"nroGr Guide to Success. rem
roses relations with standard On! com
ros,J one of The most ."nltNcning cps
ndcs Of American politics some years
ago. ,,
Another thing that some or the olH
Guard leaders mumb,c about Is the
fac, that Dawes is acc"ptablr [" DEM
n,rat4 to Il d"grr" which ar"uS"S thc'r
suspirIon. They have discovered That
Dawes Endorsed John Shelton Nll'hAms.
IN, nrcsrnt Drmocrati" tontT"iI"r "l
rhr Treasury. wien the latter hPPo'ht-
mon, was before the Senate Tor con-
urmat.on. 81,
This particular scandal. Is thes" o,H
prprd leaders, but knew 1t, IL prohhpiy
even worse. Those OF us who move
among the LEADERS, of both parties re-
call that at the TINA when McAdoo re-
signed rs Secretary OF the Treasury one
Of tho men whom somc Democratic
leaders recommended 10 wilson Us He-
,hno's successor was Dawes.
The fact that Dawes charac''F A'N
standing as banker make MN &c
csn,ahlc to some Democrats over
sbodow IN the minds or these sus-
r,ciors slandrattcrs the tact that
Dawes has been 4 Republican all MS
NE. tha, ne was Republican Office
holder under Mckinley twenty-five