The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23
SEN. WALSH RELATES
THE STORY OF GIL
GREETED BY BIG AUDIENCE
WHICH APPLAUDS POINTS
MADE IN SPEECH.
OTHER CANDIDATES
Carlson and Kirschwing Deal With
State Issues-Dorman
For LaFollette.

The visit Of United States Senator
Thos. J Walsh and his party Of cam
paigners to Wolf Point Monday even
ing resulted in big political meet
ing. People of all parties, with
good proportion of women, filled the
Stennes hall to capacity and gave
their famous Senator a hearty well
come.
Accompanying the senator were c.
E. Carlson Of Bozeman, democratic
nominee for attorney general; Joseph
Kirschwing Of Great Falls, nominee
for congressman; Howard Mcintyre
and Sam Mitchell, who are on the
democratic ticket for state treasurer
and secretary of state respectfully.
d. G. Dorman whose schedule brought
him to Wolf Point the same evening,
was, through the courtesy of the.
democratic campaigners, granted
time to make an important announce
ment in the interest of LaF)llette
ard Wheeler.
honesty paramount
J. X. Bramble, was chairman Of the
meeting. At the beginning of his
address Senator Walsh said that he
held the paramount issue in the pres
ent national campaign to be 'honesty
in government" He said that in his
former campaigning in Montana he
had talked principally in advocacy
of other candidates, leaving the pues-
tion of his own merits to the judg
ment Of the electors, but in the pres
ent campaign a new situation had
come about. His record as a repre-
sentative Of Montana in the halls of
congress had been assailed and he
felt justified in talking to his aud
ience in a personal vein.
In most interesting manner he
sketched the work of the investiga-
tion by the senate committee which
he was called upon to lead. He said
he was instrumental in having re-
turned to the government oil lands
of inestimable value and in having
TWO members or tI.o cabinet ronnoved
He gave his colleague, Senator B. K.
high praise for the investi-
cation conducted of the department
Of justice and the resulting resigna-
ton Of Attorney General Daugherty-
Leasing Acts
The senator said he had it from
good sources that the big oil men of
he country were sending large sums
nto the state in an effort to defeat
lim and that every incident of his
oast life had been scrutinized in an
Effort to "get something on Walsh.v
Their efforts had availed them moth
ng, he said. Traps had been laid
or him at the capital, but fortunate
y he had escaped. The senator re-
'iewed the history of the federal oil
and holdings under the administra-
ion of Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and
Harding. He explained the act
which had been passed authorizing
he leasing of land not in the federal
eserve, also the act giving the sec
etary of the navy full authority
yer the federal oil reserves. He told
ow the attempt had been made to
lake it appear he was responsible
or the latter act, and said that he
ad gone on the floor of the senate
nd proven that he had no connection
18th it and had been corroborated by
epublican senators. He said the in
of the oil leases had been
egun at the instigation of Senator
,aFollette to whom he attributed
luch credit as fearless progressive.
-e told the whole story of the un-
overing of Secretary Falls opera
ons and his alleged 'loans" from
[cLean, Doheny and others.
He said Secretary of the Interior
all was broke and had not paid his
lxes for 10 years when he took of
ce but, in two years after he had
zpended 100000 in the improve
ent and purchasing of new prop
'ty. The Investigations, he said,
-oved that Fall had accepted loan
ON Edward F. Doheny amounting
100000 and one for $4,000
ON Sinclair
Make Light of 1t
He said that, to him, the worst
1ase of the scandal was not the
eeds themselves but the attitude of
e administration toward the offic-