The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-03-20
TEDDY JR., REJUVINATES THE
ANNANTAS CLUB

The Tea Pot Dome and Attorney
General Daugherty Investigations
have given many congressman an op-
portunity to break into the lime light,
who otherwise would never have been
heard outside of the small district they
represent. 1t is the privilege of a
congressman to make slanderous
charges against any individual, public
or private, on the floor of Congress
and be immune from prosecution, re-
gardless of whether there is an iota OF
truth to form a ground work for
Their charges.
The Herald is confident that public
officials, both Republican and Demo
crat, have been corrupted in connec-
ton with their dealings with Sinclair
and Doheny. Nothing to date has
been shown which indicated that Mr..
DENLY was crooked in the perform
ance of his duties as Secretary of the
Navy, but he undoubtedly did use
poor Judgment and like man he re-
signed.
Attorney General Daugherty has
been severely criticized almost from
the minute he entered President
Harding's cabinet. However the
great bulk of the testimony intro
duced to date in this investigation,
has been given by a woman who
is mad and two or three others who
are self-admitted crooks. In the in
terest of the public service Daugherty
should be retired at once.
A few days ago Representative W..
S. Stevenson South Carolina demo-
crat, "made" the first page of the
American daily newspapers for prob
ably the only time in his life, by
charging that Col. Theodore Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the navy,
was implicated in the oil scandal, in a
vicious personal attack, on the floor
of the House. In a vigorous rejoin-
er made at once Mr.. Roosevelt placed
the South Carolina scandal monger in
the Annanias class. The Colonel's
statement is so refreshing and so ne
cessary in these days of promiscious
charges members of Congress are
making for POLITICAL purposes that
the Herald gladly publishes it here
with:
"Mr. Stevenson has attacked
my personal honor" said Col.
Roosevelt, stating in effect that
I directly profitted by the the
naval oil leases. He has also
also brought my wife's name in
: to the matter. His implications
are deliberately false.
'My connection with the Sim
clair company is given in the
testimony. Before the war was
a director of the company and
member of a firm of bankers
who helped to finance the COM
mittee. / resigned my direce-
torship and sold what stock I
held during the war. The last
< stock interest had, directly
or indirectly, ceased when 1000
shares of Sinclair stock bought
by my wife in 1920 were sold at
a loss by her some months before
the leases were signed.
81 gave up all business at the
time of the war and completely
severed all my connections be-,
fore l went into politics.
"1shave been in no business of
any kind since that time and
have made no money either di-
rectly or indirectly therefrom.
Neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor l
held or have held any oil stocks,
other than those mentioned
above, during this period. Our
money is invested in bonds.
''When l returned from the
war I found my brother Archie,
a wounded former service man,
with two children and no posi-
ton. 1 spoke or telephoned to
Mr.. Sinclair about him and he
was given a position. This is
no more than / have done for