The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-18
ASPIRATIONS OF
CROWN PRINCE up
FOR DECISION
McAdoo Faces His
Backers Here Today
(Continued from PAGE 1l

William H. Johnston, president Of the
international Association Of Machin-
lists was quoted as saying that Nc
Adoo's connection with the Teapot
Dome rendered him unavailable as a
candidate, but Mr. Johnston now
comes forward with denial. He
states that McAdoo has the support
of considerable portion of organ
lied labor and that he (Mr. john
ston) has high personal esteem for
Doheny's legal errand boy and that
nothing has happened in the Teapot
or anywhere else that has caused
him to doubt McAdoo's integrity.
The Plot Thickens.
The oil scandal has caused as much
CONSERVATION in the ranks Of the
labor takers as it has in the ranks
of the capitalist parties. That sec
tion Of organized labor which ac-
cepts the leadership Of Samuel Com.
pers is back of Grown Prince McAdoo
while the railroad brotherhoods led
by Warren S. Stone look on Senator
Robert Marion LaFollette as the
Moses who will lead the American
people out of the political Egypt.
Should the Republican party bosses
invite LaFollette to take along his
broom ard clean out their Aegean
stables the railroad brotherhoods or
the officials thereof, might be con-
tent to rally behind the man LaFol-
lette rather than the party.
This would be the excuse of course.
How Gompers, Democrat party fix
ture, would feel in such ungodly COM
pany can be better imagined than
described, hence the strenuous efforts
to preserve McAdoo's political vir-
tue, on the part Of the Gompers lieu
tenant.
More Skeletons In His Closet.
That Mr.. McAdoo has more skele-
tons in his closet than were revealed
to the public gaze when Doheny
opened the door, was proved by Rep
resentative Foster Of Ohio when he
informed the congress that the firm
of McAdoo, Cotton and Franklin re-
ceived retainers tot/ling a million
dollars that they never would have
received but for McAdoo's White
House connections from the motion
picture industry and from the Charles
w. Morse shipping interests. This
is the Mr.. Morse who was released
from the penitentiary by Attorney
General Daugherty during the Taft
regime for the consideration of $685.
900. Evidently Mr.. Morse still knows
the efficacy of dollars. He made
millions out of the three billion dol
lars that were wasted by the govern
ment ship building during the war,
was arrested on charges of defraud-
ing the government but thanks to his
able lawyers and his generous re-
tanners he went off scot free.
During the Morse trial Mr.. McAdoo
testified that his law firm had con-
tract with Morse which provided for
a payment Of approximately $500,000
in commissions on shipments Of coal
to France. How can Mr.. McAdoo
explain his profitable connection with
a man who was a self confessed
crook when he entered his employ
ment?
McAdoo resigned from the Wilson
cabinet two years before the termina-
ton Of that administration. While
his father-in-law was still in the
White House, McAdoo was in Mexico
City as the paid agent Of Doheny
trying to influence the Mexican gov
eminent to change the constitution
in behalf of American oil interests.
McAdoo had the prestige and the
influence of his father-in-law's adj
ministration behind him and Doheny
considered him worth $250,000.
Got Coal Contracts for Morse.
He secured coal contracts for
Morse from the Italian and French
governments thru their representa-
tives in Washington, the same repre-
sentatives he had negotiated loans
) with while he was secretary Of the
treasury. The money that was given
to these governments out of the
United States treasury by McAdoo,
came mostly back to him in com.
missions after he had resigned that
Office.
The handpicked McAdoo campaign
committee may express confidence in
his candidacy but the American
workers and farmers whose interests
ne promises to serve see in him onlv
q political CRATER and tool of cap
italisn,