The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
CAL WAVES FLAG
THAT STANDS FOR
The TEAPOT DOME
Good Judges Put Oil in
Burglars Lamps

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Connection
between the scandal of government by
oil companies and the defense of the
federal court oligarchy in the Cool
idge campaign has become so markedly
evident that the bosses are sending
out an alarm to all the states. From
now until election day the flag must
be grabbed and waved an exclusive
possession of the Coolidge administra.
ton. The Constitution must be asso-
ciated in the moron mind with the
Coolidge campaign textbook. Nothing
short Of hysterical noise, and persecu.
ton Of those who want to know why
the laws are violated will save the
day.
History NuisanceI
Somebody has dug up a set Of clip
pings from the New York papers Of
January 8, 1923, devoted to President
Harding's statement to the press that
Secretary Fall had decided to retire to
his ranch. This was nearly nine
months after the senate had adopted
resolution for the investigation Of
Falls illegal giving away of the naval
oil lands. 1t was at the time that Fall
was reported to be retiring from the
cabinet in order to become counsel
for the Sinclair Oil Co.
Fall SCOT" His Man.
Fall did not dare go on the supreme
court; he knew that somebody was
bound to discover his crookedness,
and that this would be blow to the
prestige Of the whole judicial crowd,
from Bill Taft down to the last district
federal Judge. Besides, he knew that
someone might discover that he had
once been a democratic federal Judge
in New Mexico, and had been kicked
out by President Cleveland after he
shot a lawyer dead at his courtroom
door.
How much Sinclair and Doheny and
Standard Oil had to do with Harding's
offer of place on the supreme
court bench to the notorious
Fall may never be disclosed. The
significant thing is that, but for the
oil investigation resolution, he prob
ably would have taken a life job as a
"bulwark of the Constitution" against
the demands of the people and the
acts Of the elected congress.
When he failed to take the place, a
hardshelled railroad attorney from St.
Paul, denounced by organized labor as
one of its bitterest foes, was selected.
And today the country is waiting to
learn which one of the oil lobbyists
and lame duck reactionaries at Cool.
idge headquarters is next to be given
the black robe as an associate of Bill
Taft in the multiplying of national laws.
MondeII Had Taking Ways.
Will it be Phil Campbell of Kansas,
now lobbying for Standard Oil, or
Secretary Wilbur, who repudiated the
navy's fuel conservation policy in his
recent speech to the Petroleum Club
at Taft, California? Or will it be
Frank Mondell of Wyoming, the man
T. R. said he would not trust with a
branded steer in daylight?"
Mitchell Palmer, when bullying his
way toward hoped-for nomination
for the presidency from the Office of
attorney general, secured the appoint
ment of long list of corporation law
yers-each fanatical enemy Of the
workers-to federal judgeships. Harry
Daugherty made that his most import.
ant personal task. When he wanted a
railroad strike injunction, he made a
judge, and then called on that Judge
for the violent injunction he used
against the shopmen. Palmer and
Daugherty were the creators of a
large section of the sacred federal
court dictatorship that Collidge is now
clamoring to save. Palmer worked
for Standard Oil; Daugherty served
the oil crowd without discrimination
so long as his Jess Smiths and How.
ard Manningtons and Bill Burnses
were satisfied.
Sinclair and Doheny and Standard
Oil have not given up hope of holding
on to the naval oil reserves. Their
hand-picked federal judges are on the
job, and they have Coolidge and per.
haps the next encouragement, IL
Coolidge wins. Harry Daugherty may
again be Encouragement, or he may
go to the supreme court. giving Camp.
bell or Mondell the department OF
justice.
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