Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-15
MR.. GOLDSTEIN RETIRES.

WHEN President Harding sen
to the senate the name of
Mr.. Nat Goldstein as internal reve
nue. collector Of the city of S,
Louis, this appointment was mad
at the request of Senator Spencer
OF Missouri. 1t woke a lively pro
test from democratic senators ans
they were not alone. They wer,
joined by a number of republican
senator's who are getting tired o.
the scandals attaching to the ad
ministration from the appointment
of men prominent in Doodle scan
dals to important federal office
It was pointed out that in the in.
vestigation Of republican pre-con.
vention presidential campaign by
the senate it was shown in testi-
mony that this man Nat Goldstein
had been paid $4,000 of Lowden
campaign Doodle to use his influ-
ence to get Lowden delegates
elected from Missouri, and that
after accepting this money he then
accepted $l,500 more from the
present attorney general who was
boosting for Harding delegates to
use his influence to get Harding
delegates from Missouri. The con-
clusion drawn from the evidence
submitted was that Mr.. Goldstein
was one of those thrifty politicians
who are ready to handle a chunk
of money from any source and
double-cross the givers to serve his
own purposes. The Lowden and
Harding forces were working hard
against each other at that time and
Goldstein was taking money from
both of them.
When these things were dug up
from the senate committee report
which investigated the republican
pre-convention campaign expenses
which amounted millions of dollars,
particularly in the case of Governor
Lowden and General Wood, and
recited on the floor of the senate
after the president had nominated
Nat Goldstein as internal rveenue
collector for St. Louis, a good many
republican senators swung in line
with the democrats and declared
they would vote against the on
firmation of the presidents NOM
inee. They recalled that the presi-
dent had appointed several of the
men principally used in handling
Doodle in the Michigan
campaign to federal Of
flee, and declared that the repub-
lican party had done about all the
rewarding of boodlers it could af-
ford to do in view of the coming
congressional election. Some re-
publicans excused the president and
said he had been deceived by Sem
ator Spencer, and that he would
the nomination. How
ever, he did not withdraw it. SEN
ator Spencer got up in the senate
the other day and read a letter from
the candidate in which he said he
not want the office and would
refuse to accept it in view of the
fuss made cver his record. After
-eading the letter, Senator Spencer
announced that that ENDED the in
But does it end the incident? It
till shows that this administration
seems mighty careless about its
to fill federal office.
More scandal attached to it than
ny federal administration in many
ears. There is, Of course, the
scandal in which the
resident went out of his way to
how his approval of Newberry.
Then his attorney general is charg-
d with being mixed up in the
dorse pardon case. Secretary of
he Interior Fall is charged by re-
'ublicans with setting aside the
lavy oil reserve created by the
administration and giving
t to private interests allied with
he Standard Oil company. And /.
he attorney general and secretary
f the interior are not the only {
abinet officers charged with scan-
alous conduct on behalf of big |
interests contributing to campaign
unds. In fact, the whole admin ,
is pervaded with this in !
.nse friendship for the rich grab
er of spoils. Secretary of War +,
Weeks is alleged to have permitted
ne selling Of surplus war supplies
business interests at ridiculously !
Nv prices. All these sales have !