The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-02
Tennyson once said: Kind words are more than cOrOnets."
THE sENATE's R0CUEs GALLERIES

The Walsh committee and the Wheeler committee have de-
veloped a very jealous rivalry.
The Walsh committee held the boards for quite a while,
counting that day lost which did not see come new SANDER broad
casted from its committee room.
The Wheeler committee got a late start in the free for all
slime singing contest, but with the very valuable aid of two
blackmaiers, a couple of selfconfessed booders and several who
have been indicated by the Department of Justice for violation
of criminal laws, it spurted ahead of the Walsh committee.
No use talking, young Wheeler, of Montana, put it all over
his political godfather, Walsh, of Montana, in grabbing the first
page of the newspapers. But as soon as the tactics of the Wheeler
committee we're evident the Walsh committee came right back,
and at this writing it is one train robber ahead in the contest.
Al Jennings contribution is supposed to be political gossip which
he obtained from a politician who was killed in a drunken quarrel
with his paramount.
The admission as evidence of alleged conversations with
persons now dead is not permitted even in police court proceedings.
To allow such testimony to be digniied as evidence would open
wide the doors to unrestrained perjury. That is what has taken
place in the Wheeler committee investigation. 1t has taken place
because Wheeler and the majority of his committee deliberately
desire that sort of "evidence.' 1t is so easy to prove things by
conversations with dead people! One is not embarrassed by the
truth!
The star witness of the Wheeler committee was CASTOR B.
Means, who first came into nOtoriety as German spy "E-13" in
the employ of Count Won Bernstorff and Captain Boy-Ed during
the war. His next bid for first page position was in connection
with the murder in North Carolina of his associate, Mrs. Maude
A. King. Means was acquitted of the charge after long deIiber-
alton by the jury. In connection with the murder of Mrs. King,
Means produced a will which would have benefited him This
will was pronounced a forgery. Means and his attorney, Thomas
B. Fielder, are now under indictment in the federal courts, charged
with a conspiracy to bride Attorney General Daugherty. Means
and his secretary, Emil W. Jarnecka, are also under indictment in
New York for conspiracy to remove millions of dollars worth of
whiskey from government warehouses and permit it to reach
bOOtleggers. Means, on the witness stand before the Wheeler
committee admitted that his principal business was answering
criminal indictments.
Other witnesses called by Wheeler in the effort to besmirch
Attorney General Daugherty admitted on the witness stand that
they were bOOdlers and have been engaged in bribery conspiracies
to corrupt public officials and break criminal laws. Some of
them are under indictments in the criminal courts.
If the innovation of proving honest men and public officials
guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors by introducing testimony
of convicts and eX-convicts, crooks, forgers, bride takers, murder
es, train robbers and other criminals is to be followed then there
is no end in sight of the present Investigations until all the
inmates of our penitentiaries have been put on the stand.
Too bad this method was not thought of years ago! Jesse
James and Calamity Jane and all the other cutthrOats of a
generation since died too soon. Some of them assembled the
gallows and ne a feOns death, when, had they lived in these
times, they might have taken a deluxe trip to Washington at
the expense OF the taxpayers paid out of the Senates contingent
fund!
Arriving in the nations capital they would have become the
center of attraction, shown al Difference, photographed in all
poses, taken night iov ride n nnatOrial automobiles and brought
their career to a climax by vending the witness chair before
some committee to spill their venom and their Islander to the
profit and glory of the Democratic party, and he personal graft
fication of the political backguards who h a r1ade the United
States Senate a cesspoOl of political filth ovo1 which floats the
scum of their own putrid motives.