The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
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BEAN-SPILLER IN
EYES OF C. O.P.
Prowls Around Capitol
On Trouble Bent
By LAURENCE TODD.

WASHlNGTON, March 13.-Ad-
mlnistration apologists are worried
by the presence in Washington of
Frank A. Vanderlip, who has been
sued for 100000 by the two young
men who purchased President Har-
dlng's paper, The Marion Star. The
owners of the Marion Star were not
questioned in detail when they came
before the senate oil investigation
committee last month, and declared
that Vanderlip had no basis for his
charge that they had paid twice as
much as the paper was worth. Van
derllp appears to view the coming
trial of the damage suit with dead
ly cheerfulness.
Vanderlip on the Job.
Since Vanderlip made his apollo
getic appearance before the commit
tee on Feb. 10, he has apparently
been busy securing information as to
the actual value of the Harding
newspaper and as to many other
matters relating to the financial af-
fairs of the political friends of Do
heny and Sinclair. He has consulted
with some of the best informed men
In Washington, and predicts that the
trial of the damage suit against HIM
self will furnish generous headlines,
even in presidential year. Wander
lips visit to the capitol has been lit
tie noticed chiefly because of the SEN
sational charge by Leonard Wood,
Jr., that the oil crowd determined
the defeat Of his father and the sue
cess of Harding in the presidential
race, and the further disclosure that
connect up Attorney General Daugh-
erty's department and American oil
interests, with the recent counter
revolutionary movement in Mexico.
This Mexican phase of the oil scan
dial has required persistently since
the beginning. First, it came with
Doheny's testimony that he owed Fall
more than he could ever repay, be-
cause of Falls efforts in the senate
to safeguard Doheny's interests in
Mexico. Then former Attorney Gem
eral Gregory and former Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, were en-
ployed by Doheny to plead with the
state department, under the Wilson
administration, to protect these same
interests. Then George Creel came
into the picture with his unofficial
mission to persuade Obregon and de
la Huerta TO surrender to the official
American attitude on Mexican oil
rights. And McAdoo was promised
a million dollars fee if he could get
results in Mexico City.
Damaging Evidence to be Uncovered.
Last summer a compromise was
reached, Mexican loans we're nego-
tiated, recognition of Mexico was ac-
corded, and peace appeared to be Sc
cured. Yet, almost Immediately the
Fascist revolt broke out and secret
agents along the border began to re-
port its progress to the American oil
magnates.
The Federated Press published at
that time the view of Mexicans in
Washington that the oil men were
back of this reacrionary uprising.
Now it appears that when one of the
agents of the government on the
Texas border reported that he had
seen an illegal shipment of arms to
the rebels he was instructed to re-
lease them. 1t also appears that the
friends of Fall were in close touch
with the rebel chiefs and that their
interest in the revolt lay in the fact
that de la Huerta was pledged to
turn over vast amounts of the natur-
al wealth of Mexico to American
exploiters. 1t happens that the de-
cisive events in this Mexican event |
took place about the time that Fall,
Mclean, Slemp, and other characters
in the intrigue at Palm Beach were
in conference there.
Young Wood is going TO tell what |
he knows of the secret history of the
Republican convention which made
Daugherty attorney general and Fall
secretary Of the interior. Still more
interesting may be the testimony of |
Clara Smith Hamon, who shot and |
killed the man who controlled the oil
delegates, in that convention. 1t Is
not certain that she will disclose the
secrets she shared as to lannon's |
reasons for making the nomination |
Of Harding possible, but it is expect |
ed that she will make clear the basis |
for lannon's confidence that he |
would be secretary of the interior
under the new administration. She |
can say whether Hamon intended to |
step aside for Fall and whether he
believed both he and Fall were to be |
in the cabinet.
Strive in Vain.
Weekend attempts by the admin
istration press to arouse public re-
sentiment at the publication of Presi-
dent Coolidge's kilograms TO Mclean
in January and February fell fiat.
Daugherty remained in the cabinet. |
The intimacy of Coolidge with Nc
Lean was established. The Republican |
national committee limited, in vain,
that the oil investigation was an,
other Bolshevist plot.
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