The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07

II is trying to protect people who have l sold the public resources of this land,
 the President of the United States has immediately as his defender the senior I senator from Massachusetts, who de l precates, who condemns, who excoriates people who dare to mention that; the President might at least tell why he
 should be in communication with h
 man who twas the go-between, between l Eau and Dohenyt who helped Fall try I to concoct q lie to conceal the truth from the Senate of the United States,
 and we all know it nows 1 After sharp exchange with Sena-
 tor Lodge about the Fall visit, Eerha-
 tor Caraway said he wanted to with
 draw any language offensiye to the re- I publican leader; and then added:
 l Wflson In Premature Grave
 But don't excuse anybody who is little justified in trying to read the l people lesson about the sacfedness of the President of the United States
 when everybody knows that Woodrow I Wilson sleeps jn his grave tonight from | the abuse, the ufjustified. attacks
 launched against him as President of these United States. In. defending him
 self against these attacks. he went to I his death. N Recalling Senator Lodges statement that the President was doing the best
 he could in the present situation, Sen
 ator Caraway referred to the visits of Senators Lodge and Pepper to the White House to. urge that Attorney General Daugherty be removed from the cabinet.
 2s.It is . little inconsistent, he said, swhen | man is doing the best he can,
 to % down there and ask him tp do something else. Daugherty pfotested that he did not want to be dropped
 overheard and the senator from Penn
 sylvania was quoted as saying that the question of whether 1t is just or not is not the question. The point is; it is for the good of the party.
 Mclean Universal Solvent"
 Now I want to say another thing
 about the President and his telegram.
 do not know why it was that every body, including Burns and Mary and anybody in Florida, had to call, up Ed
 Mclean. He was the universal solvent.
 so far as information was concerned. I think it is the most startling state
 ment I have listened to that the Pres idnet of the United States had lost i his secretary and could not find him
 until he could find Ed Mclean.
 'sBut that is not all. If the Presi-
 dents message of congratulations was in response to a message he had re- ceived congratulating him for refusing
 to drop Denby overboard, that very l telegram is in existence. He might
 have produced it and saved himself mak- ing an explanation. One was that Mo Lean was congratulating him on a speech that he had not delivered and l would not deliver for some hours yet, and when 1t. did not suit and would
 not fit, they said it, was in answer to a congratulatory message congratulate ing him. on keeping Denby. I think that was premature, because before he
 had done it, Denby had been slid over board; in other words, he was eonerat-
 ulating the President for keeping cab.
 inet officer that he had already fixed to drop" 's
 Would. AbsoIye President S E,
 T hope the country will accept it as true, for I do not want my President, do not care what party he may be-
 long to, to be enmeshed in this awful thing that almost topples down the very pillars upon which this government rests.H ss.g, 94 |. Senator Hefin, democrat t. Alabama.
 followed Senator Harrisons It was
 during his address that first Reference was made to Senate attacks against
 President Wilson. Interrupting the
 speaker, Senator Caraway asked if the record showed that when President Wilson was being aysaiied that the
 senator from Massachusetts came to his defense. as "On the contrary,"' replied Senator
 Hefiin, '.he was leading the charge
 against him; he was. right in the fore front of the fight" K
 Senator McKellar, democrat. Tennes. see. interrupted to say that in 1919 he had heard the meanest, the most yi-
 cious and tbe most insulting attacks
 that ever heard fall from mortal lips
 on the part of Senator Sherman, of Illinois, against the then President of the United States, and not a word of
 criticism from any republican, senator
 was uttered" .ss; ,s NO, it makes lot of difference
 whose OK is being gored," responded
 Senator Hefiin. s.s;.l' :.
 T said some time ago." continued the Alabama senator, s.that we had
 trailed this thing up toward the White
 House, we had located it in the back yard, and if they did; not mind we
 would get it into the White House. Now we have the operator at the
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