The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
DRIVE DENLY
OUT, SOLONS'
NEW SLOGAN
Navy Heads Conduct Too
"FIagTant FaithIGSSness"


Observation-Disclosures
of the Navy DENLY should be
driven out of office with all
the odium that can possibly at
tach to his going" Senator
Walsh, the Montana investiga-
tor who unearthed the Teapot
Dome scandal, told the Senate
today.
Walsh's attack on DENLY fol-
lowed testimony before the
Senate Teapot Dome Commit
tee by F. G. Bonfils, publisher
of the Denver Post, which re-
vealed:
That Bonfils, with Leo Stack. a
Denver politician, had a contract
with Harry Sinclair, Teapot Dome
lessee, under which Sinclair has al
ready paid $4,000 and must paw
81 100000 more if he wants to drill
certain acreage in Teapot Dome.
That Stack at one time tried to get
Teapot Dome for E. L. Doheny,
lessee Of the California reserves.
That there apparently was a COM
promise between Sinclair and Do
heny by which one was to take Tea
pot Dome, the other the California
reserves.
Bon6ls kept Quiet"
Bonfils' testimony today was a
voluntary statement by him. given
principally to explain the suppress
sion of facts gathered by his brother,
Stackelback, in New Mexico, with re-
lation to Fall. These facts, not pub
lished by Bonfils' paper, were fur
nished to Senator Walsh of the SEN
ate Committee.
Bonfils told the committee he sup
pressed the story because it was
libelous. His testimony regarding
his contract with Sinclair was re-
garded by the committee as inter
esting but not particularly signif-
cant or as having any bearing upon
the question of illegality or corrup-
ton in the making of the Teapot
Dome lease.
1t was an interesting sidelight,
Senators on the committee said, on
Sinclair's willingness to spend large
sums to get Teapot Dome, indicating
that he expected to make huge profits
out of it.
Bitter Attack on DENLY.
Walsh's attack on DENLY, delivered
soon after the Senate met, was the
bitterest yet heard since the Senate
began considering the Robinson reso-
luton demanding DENLY be called on
to resign.
Walsh expresses doubt that DENLY
could be impeached.
Stupidity" he said, 'is not a
ground for impeachment do be-
lieve Mr.. DENLY guilty of treason.
! know of no evidence upon which he
could be convicted of bribery or any
other high crime or misdemeanor.
"But this is no time to stand ND on
fine spun theories concerning the ex-
act line dividing the domain of the
executive from that of the legislative
branch Of the government.
Charges Crime.
"a great crime has been COM
mitted. The very structure of our
government rocks upon its founda-
ton in consequence of the revela-
tions made In connection with it.
There is but one way to restore to
it that confidence which is indispensi-
BILE to its stability and perpetuity,
namely, to visit upon the perpetra-
tors the EXTREMIST rigor of the law
and TO drive from the public service
every one thru whose connivance or
supineness it became possible.
"Are you willing, my colleagues,
TO turn back these great properties
into the keeping Of Edwin DENLY? ]
am not.
Drive DENLY From Office.
care you willing to condone the
fragrant faithlessness which has char
acterized his administration Of his
great Office as revealed by hist own
testimony before you? / am not.
Are you content TO let him down
easy lest sensibilities be offended or
political prospects be affected? /
am not
81 want TO see him driven from
Office with all the odium that can
possibly attach TO his going, that his
fate may serve for all time as a
warning 20 those who might other
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