The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
OIL CLOGS FEET
OF NC ADOO IN
JACKASS RACE
Doheny and Morse Fees
Hurting Him Now

NEW YORK, June 25.-"McA'ldoo!"
This is the campaign cackle of the
boosters or BOOSTERS for Doheny's oily
lawyer. Eyes, he'll do, all right-that
is, he'll do the Democratic party out
of the election" is the bitter reply of
all the other delegates at the New
York convention. The other delega-
lions, including Smithites, Favorite-
Sonists and Dark-Horses, have at the
outset combined against MaAdoo.
THE Republicans are praying for us
to nominate Doheny's lawyer, so we
cannot make oil the big campaign
issue" This is the argument one hears
around Madison Square Garden.
A Sticky Oil Record
There are other counts against
McAdoo as a potential vote-getter in
an election year when the Andy Gumps
and Henry Dubbs and their wives are
touchy on the subject Of Big Business
control at Washington, but his oil
record is the worst. He not only re-
ceived $4,000 from Doheny and from
his firm, 500, 900, but was to get mill
lion dollar rake-off if he was success
full in smashing the Mexican constitu-
tional provisions which protect par
TALLY the property Of the Mexican
people from the American capitalists.
Sold Political Influence
McAdoo resigned as a cabinet mem
Der, and sold his political influence in
Washington to Doheny. He disguised
these facts from the public. He con-
tinued as Doheny's lawyer even after
ts cm6tttsgge h rat oqD5saEsa e
Fall 100000 for handing over the
governments oil reserves on which he
expected to clear one hundred million
dollars. Even when McAdoo appeared
on the witness stand and had to admit
his $4,000 Doheny fee, he tried to
cover up that $1,000,00O fee.
McAdoo raked off another S150,000
from the Republic Iron and Steel
company by inducing the U. S. trea-
sury department (Which he used to
rum to refund 100000 of the COM
pany's taxes. McAdoo was also the
lawyer for Charles w. Morse, who has
since been prosecuted for conspiracy
to defraud the government on ship
building contracts during the war.
Rake-off from Morse
For the Virginia Ship-building Cor
poration, Morse firm, McAdoo got
100000 out of the government after
other lawyers had failed. He was to
receive 81 a ton on coal contracts with
Italian interests for swinging the bust
ness to Morse ships, and his commits
sion would probably have reached
$750,000. But the government put an
embargo on coal, and McAdoo made
only $4,000. He got another $4,000
from representing a second Morse
firm, the Breton Iron Works, against
the government.
McAdoo's friend and employer,
Morse, is the crooked banker who was
sentenced in 1908 to Atlanta peniten-
tiary for is years, and then released
by President Taft through the efforts
of Harry Daugherty and others. So
McAdoo's name is connected with
Republican scandals not only in the
case of Doheny and oil but also the
Morse scandals. 1t is pointed out.
Khan a Boomerang
This record had killed the McAdoo
boom until the Ku Klux Khan came to
the rescue. AS a result McAdoo enters
the convention with over 400 votes, as
against 900 or less for Smith his
closest competitor. But the khan. which
revived the defunct McAdoo boom,
may prove the boomerang which
finally puts him out of the running.