Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-02-16

WOODROW WILSON'S final
exit from the worlds stage at
time when the political parties are
preparing for another great battle
is not expected to have any marked
effect on the presidential campaign.
If he had lived through the summer
his influence would have been felt at
the Democratic National Convention,
probably in support of McAdoo, his
son-in-law. His death, though, has
been the signal for the renewal of
efforts by various peace organiza-
tons to sell the League of Nations
to the country.
NORTHUMBERLAND them
the country just now is more in
terested in matters closer to its home
and pocket-book than in information
al affairs. Most Of the people seem
willing to leave the conducting of
foreign relations to Mr.. Hughes
with the advice and consent of the
Senate) and to focus their attention
on the moves in Congress for tax
reduction and the Governments
effort to get at the bottom-how-
ever deep that may be-of the great
oil lease scandal.
INVESTIGATION of the Fall.
DENLY oil leases has led to a
veritable deluge of oratory on
Capitol Hill. Mostly it is words,
words, words-and largely for
political effect at that. Upon oc-
casion there is a bright spot For
instance, Senator Tom Heflin, Of
Alabama, an old-time bombastic
declaimer, suggested that G. o. P.
stood for the Grand Oil Party"
But that was before Ed Doheny an
nounced that all his high priced
assistants were not Republicans and
that he had had at least three
members of the Wilson Cabinet on
his payroll.
NO NATIONAL conference in
Washington on Domestic problems
is complete without Herbert Hoover
to do the organizing and pull the
necessary wires. When the Presid-
ent called his conference here to
discuss the distressed agriculture
and banking situation in the north
western states, the Secretary of
Commerce was on hand-and busy,
though it would appear to the casual
observer that the matter might have
been handled very well by the
Secretary Of the Treasury and the
Secretary of Agriculture. Great
faith is placed in Hoovers organic
ing ability. II is his job to get the
conferences to adopt the proper
resolutions and take the action which
the Administration desires. And
he always does the job and does it
well.
EDITH BOILING GAIT WILL
SON, widow of the Ex-P President, ex-
poets to continue her residence in
Washington, but has not decided
whether or not she will occupy the
S Street mansion where her husband
died. Mrs. Wilson is part owner of
one Of the capitals largest jewelry
stores, formerly operated by her
first husband. She is said to be
worth half million dollars in her
own right.
1T is REPORTED from Florida
that Attorney General Daugherty
has started work on his promised
biography of Warren Harding. The
book may be ready for the press in
the autumn.
ALTHOUGH TWO Of the men who
succeeded him in the White House
have succumbed to the trials of the
Presidency, William Howard Taft,
the Chief justice of the United
States, still goes about his daily
duties as haze and hearty as ever.
Taft is now sc years old Wilson
was 81 when he died, while Harding
was only So. The death of two
Presidents within few months has
brought forcibly to the attention of
the leaders the necessity of choosing
younger men as candidates. Being
President of these States has gotten
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