Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-20
THE COUNTRY HOME

BY MRS. w. Il. EEL

terprise, if the senator or his brother, John,
would join him. Brother John is reliably
reported to be oil attorney, former chief
counsel of the federal trade commission
der Democratic administrations and the sug-
gestion came from Senator Walsh, accord
! ing to the telegram of Mr.. Doheny The
Western Union telegraph manager brought
in, with others, this telegram, but it was
not read out in public. A whisper was
then heard and it did finally appear SEN
atOr Walsh rebuked the telegraph manager
and the manager said he was directed to
bring all messages to and from Doheny"
rms brought on considerable talk, and the
Montana senator declined to enter into
| business with Mr.. Doheny. the person he
mad eulo9zed so extensively in the wear
| 1917.
| When Senator Walsh went to Palm Beach
he knew that the McAdoos, father and son.
were in close affinity with Mr. Mclean Mr.
w. G. McAdoo was the senator's candidate
for president in 1924, perhaps in 1920. There
was telegram later read out, that Mr.. Nc
Lean desired Francis McAdoo to ok the state
ment concerning eX-Attorney- General Mitchell
Palmer, who turns up as law PARTNER Of Mr.
NeVey the special counsel of Albert Fall.
| EX-Attorney Mitchell Palmer is the distin-
Suished gentleman who was acclaimed at
Frisco convention as Georgia's choice for pres
ident Of the United States, in 1920 All these
notabes were at Frisco, together, and Mr.
McAdoo was voted for president and failed
! Mr. Doheny voted on as vice president
and failed-and Mr.. Doheny had been ex-
traYagantly eulogized by Senator Walsh in
1910, who was chairman of the 1917 senate
| committee herein noted. These are not nv
| opinions or my Deductions or nv conclusions
or my own words
When / secured this information I decided
to pass them on to you. They all mat
ters of record. They all belong under the
Teapot Dame. They are public property. They
will be well advertised during the coming
presidential compagn.
I'm giving our respected and beloved con-
| tr1butOr her say certain phases of the Tea
pot Dome scandal, The Tri-Weekly Journal
feels obliged to point out certain facts Of
which Mrs. FELTON, was uniformed when she
wrote the article
| l. There is no inconsistency between Demo
cratic and national Indignation at the Tea
pot lease and the policy sponsored by Secre-
| tary Daniels to prevent the draining Of gov
eminent oil lands Secretary Daniels per-
sstently refused to permit the lease of the
Teapot Dome lands, on the ground that they
were so situated to suffer no loss from
draining His department did move to pre-
vent loss Of oil from government lands lying
near private oil developments.
. careful reading Of all the testimony
develoned in the committee hearing indicates
| that Senator Walsh conducted nlmseI WITH
exemplary honesty in his correspondence with
| Mr. Doheny. At the instance Of friends in his
state Montana, he asked Mr.. Doheny il the
latter would take a look at certain lands be-
lieved to be worth developing for oil. Mr..
Doheny proposed going ahead if Senator
Walsh and the latter's brother would take
part in it, Senator Walsh replied that he
could not undertake such thing, as he was
senator and the oil business necessarily
would involve negotiations with the govern
ment
! 2 A. Mitchell Palmer is not law partner
of zevelv Sinclairs counsel The RECORD
showed that one Of McLean's hencnman
thought he was and the facts proved the
benchman to have been mistaken.
There is no evidence whatsoever that
William G. McAdoo was in close athnty
or even knew him. There has been evil
dence that Mr.. McAdoo's son represented
| Mclean as a lawyer in an effort TO upset
! the will of his (McLean's) father.
s. The New York Times is not Demo
cratic newspaper, but is properly classed as
Independent.
| We think it important to print Mrs. FELTON, s
article and to add to it this note.
The result will be that our readers viii nave
| a clearer knowledge Of some OF the main 1acts
Of that national standardization Tri-Weekly
! JOurnal)