The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-19
Coolidge Treasurer, Mellon, Graft Witness;
Show British Government Financed Doheny
Stop Scuttling of
Oil Investigation

A s the DAILY WORKER Teapot Dome Special"
going to press, from Washington to the
effect that the Public Lands Committee, with Senator
Thomas Walsh, of Montana its prosecutor, is about to
call off the investigation at the very moment when inn
portant revelations seemed about to be disclosed.
The Teapot Dome investigation unearthed the most
appalling evidence of corruption that
startled this country Every capitalist politician in Amer
lea realizes its implications. The workers Of the United
watching the Teapot Dome investigation and
they losing confidence the capitalist government
Therefore the scandal must be buried.
Already the capitalist press starting counter-ofen-
sve against results of investigation The yellow
journals of that arch prostitute William Randolph Hearst
already the way with the preliminary campaign
His cartoonss picturing the whole affair storm in
teacup not Teapot Soon the Hearst from coast
will be in full cry for stop to the investigation.
The Chicago Tribune, exponent of American imperial
and of revolution in the oil soaked Mexican
Republic, in column editorial blast in its issue of
March IL against the investigates branding Senator
Wheeler friend of Objecors 1t calls for an easing
up of the Investigation and Withholding of Judgement
1t declares CASTOR B. Means crook and insnuates that
Roxie Stinson is an immoral woman.
But Means a much of a crook when he hired
by Daugherty and Burns he today and the moral
character Stnson is not up Tribune standard
the blame for her alleged dreltion should be laid
those with whom she intimately associated the late Pres
dent Harding, Harry M Daughery and the Ohio ring of
the republican machine in Washington.
1t accident that such widely differing interests
those behind the Hearst press and the Chicago Tribune
These scandal sheets of capitalism know that the
various probes going rocking the capitalist
itself and exposing both republican and demo-
cratic parties two thievng who rob this country
and its under the protection of the American flag
AS this counter-barrage is laid down against the
Teapot investigation Senator Thomas Walsh intimate
friend of the Doheny family that the nvesga
ton is nearing end. A few days stated
had barely scratched the The Teapot Dome nvesga
ton is quitting without letting the world know that the
principal mentioned in the Mclean Palm Beach tee-
other than Calvin Coolidge president of the
United States For the sake of capitalism the presidency
must be covered with cloak of sanctity, therefore, the
accommodating committee halts its probe at the
it was about to lay finger the rngeader
The DAILY WORKER urges the workers and farmers
of this country to take immediate action and food the
senate with kilograms calling for committee
tinue the Teapot Dome investigation
The DAILY WORKER urges Senator Robert M La
Toilette who introduced the Teapot Dome resolution,
step in now and make a real investigation
The DAILY WORKER believes that evidence of official
corruption yet unreveaed to the public would
ignomnious expulsion from Office of prominent members of
the Coolidge Cabinet yet untouched by the investigation
and that it would lead up to the impeachment of the
president hmself-CALVIN COOLIDGE, THE SILENT
TOOL OF WALL STREET.