Evening star., 1924-01-21
DEMOCRATS PRESS
TEAPOT OIL ISSUE
National Committee to Make
Special Appeal to Woman
Voters in Controversy.

An announcement by the democratic
national committee today shows that
this organization Is intent upon MAX
ing the lease Of the Teapot Dome oil
fields a major issue in the coming
presidential campaign and will allege
scandaious acts upon the part Of Of
ficials Of the republican administra-
tion.
The democratic national committee
Is understood to perceive in the leas-
Ing of the Navy's oil reserve an op-
portunity to make political capital
for the party of the highest i'm
portance. In connection with the
current statement democratic leaders
in House and. Sc nate will set about
to secure legislation at once cancel
Ing the lease of. the oil fields to the
SINCLAIR interests
The democratic national committee
proposes 10 work especially among
the woman voters Of tho land sun
posed to be deeply interested in con-
SerVatlon. The committee is sending
out today a forty-five page prfute d
pamphlet entitled The Lands Ye
Possess; Who Shall Administer
"iiNtSii Wy MARION BannlSteT.
Scope of Pamphlet.
\ statement by the committee ac-
companying the pamphlet saws:
All the information brought out
py the senatorial committee investt-
eating the Teapot Dome lease is in
corporated In the pamphlet up to
the date Of Senator Walsh's vi-it to
Florida- when he obtained admission
from Edward B. Mclean. newspaper
Nd
the Interior Albert h. Fall. that the
100000 cash which Fall in 1921 took
with him from Washington to New
Mexico to Increase his western
rahch holdings had not been loaned
to him by Mr.. Mclean, as he had
stated in previous testimony before
the committee. Additional news OF
lne hearings are published in the
Fortnightly Bulletin issued at demo-
cratic headquarters for the benefit
or the woman voters of the coun-
try"
Along with this is 4 statement
from Mrs. Emily Newell Blair. vice
chairman of the democratic national
committee. in which she says:
Says Women Are Interested.
Special departments for the study
of conservation exist IN every ma
tional woman's organization and this
has become one of the political issues
OF woman voters. Their interest has
been greatly Increased in the past
few weeks by the revelations brought
out by Senator Walsh Of Montana
IL the senatorial committee investi-
cation and in the speech of Senator
Caraway in the United States Sen
ate January Is, in which he demand
ed prosecution of the public serv-
ants dealing with the nations naval
Oil reserves.
'Foreseeing that this would be one
OF the issues which would be Of great
Importance and interest to woman vot-
ers. We had prepared and distributed
to thousands OF woman's clubs and IN
dividuai voters a complete history OF
the conservation movement. The sub
1ect makes an especial appeal TO women
because OF their natural interest In
safeguarding the interests of their chill
dren and children's children.
our researches. incorporated in the
pamphlet. shows that under democratic
and progresslve-republic sdnI.nistra-
tionS the policy of conservation has
tiouriShed. while IL has inevitably failed
To be enforced under old guard admin
istrations, such as the nation has had
since 1921. AS Senator Caraway point
ed out before the United States Sen
ate, the present republican admins
tration has been leasing away from the
citizens their naval oil reserves, so nee
essary to the oil-burning battIeships.
AN action which. he said, he considered
betrayal of the nation on q parity
with the attempt of Benedict Arnold,
during the revolutionary war, to turn
over to the British fortress upon the
Hudson river