The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-24
DEMAND HARRY
DAUGHERTY Get
OUT is GROWING
Charge Coolidge Fears
To Sign Custer

WASHINGTON, March 23.--The
demand that President Calvin Cool
idge Immediately suspends Harry M
Daugherty is expected to become
irresistible this week after the SEN
sational disclosures made last Satur-
day by Roxie Stinson, ex-wife of Jess
Smith, suicide and close friend Of the
Harding family.
Not alone is Harry M. Daugherty,
enmeshed in the network Of graft
from which it is impossible for him
to extricate himself, but no less
crime than the death of his former
boon companion and partner in crime
| is laid indirectly at the door of the
attorney general.
Vanderlip Aids Investigation.
With Frank A. Vanderlip, million
aire banker, placing his money at the
disposal Of the Wheeler committee in
vestigating the criminal acts of the
union-wrecking Daugherty, in order
to defeat the efforts of the Depart
ment of Justice to thwart the investi-
CATION this week is expected to UNI
earth evidence that will compel Cal
win Coolidge to make last desperate
effort to save something from the
political wreckage and dump Daugh-
ertv overheard.
That this will mean trouble for
! Coolidge nobody knows better than
the New England Puritan, but "beg-
CARS can't be choosers" and con-
fronted with a choice of two evils
Coolidge must choose the lesser.
Daugherty has already threatened
the president with swift political
punishment should he listen to the
advice of his hackers and show
the D. of ]. head.
1t is even said that the Ohio graf
ter shook his fist in the presidents
face and thumping the table shouted
to the covering figure Of "Silent"
Calvin that he would break him poll
ticallv the moment he put his pen to
the letter suspending him from his
office.
The president may be brave man
when he defied the Boston police
who were deserted by Samuel Com
pers but face to face with the tow
ering figure Of Daugherty, he was
mild man and threw UP the sponge.
! Col. Thomas Fielder is expected
70 take the stand early this week.
Fielder is a close personal friend Of
the attorney general and had the
endorsement of William ]. Flynn,
former head CT the bureau Of inves-
tigation of the Department of JUS
tice and as INSCRIPTIONS a conf
dence man as ever stepped in shoe
leather.
The high spots in last Saturdays
testimony were:
/. The charge made by Roxie
Stinson, that after q visit Of Harry
NJ. Daughertv to the notorious
"shack" outside Washington Court
house during which the attorney
general mercilessly fayed Jess
Smith for the mess into which they
got themselves, Smith went to a
hardware store and bought a revolt
yer with which he shot himself.
2. The charge made by the same
witness. that for six months before
his death Jess Smith lived in NOR
tai dread of assassination at the
hands of agents of the attorney
general. He never cared to go out
after dark and took the middle Of
the road in the daytime fearing an as
sassin's dagger or bullet from some
door or alleyway.
3. The framing of Roxie Stinson
by agents of the attorney general
in the Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland.
A man named Fink reserved a room
for her there under a fictitious
name and afterwards threatened her
with arrest and exposure unless she
made a statement that she would
not reveal her knowledge Of Daugh-
erty's criminal acts
4. That Harry Daugherty> and
Jess Smith had many secret confer
ences with a German agent in 1921
who was here over the American
Metals Case.
5. The tilt between Senator Wheel
er and Daugherty's defense over the
continued retention of the attorney
general by the president who was
using the powers of his giant ma
chine to block every effort o. the
committee to reach the truth and
even to intimidate witnesses.
Mrs. Stinson charged that a
newspaper man offered her $1,000
for a lead on the attorney general
which she turned down. William
A. Orr, former secretary Of ex-
Governor Whitman of New York,
will be recalled to the stand to
give testimony regarding money
paid by him ir liquor deals to How
ard Warrington, Daugherty's friend
who lived in the "little house on
X street,
| Fielder will be questioned regard
ing Goroni's charges that the law
yer offered him $250.00O for per-
mission to turn over 100 cases Of
Scotch to bootleggers.
/ Investigators for the Wheeler
committee learned that securities
worth in the vicinity of 100000
were found in Jess Smiths safety
deposit box at Nal Daugherty's bank
at Washington Courthouse when il