The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
ASSAULT ON DEMOCRATS IS RESENTED Montgomery Advertisers Act Amazes Party Lead-
 CTS In Washington RECORD OF PAPERS
 SALE IS RECALLED Interest Of Editor Sheehan Ac- quircd By Endorsements Of
 Brewery Group
 INCIDENT SUBJECT OF K SENATE PROBE IN 1918 Notes Bared By Committee Fol. lowing Revelations By Alien
 Property Custodian
RECORD OF PAPERS SALE IS RECALLED
INCIDENT SUBJECT OF
 SENATE PROBE IN 1918

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 WASHINGTON, D. O.. Feb. B. Democratic leaders in Washington are expressing amaseunent that . Southern newspaper should. be guilty of sttempt- ing te duplicate some of the party's out standing figures in the Teapot Dome oil scandal at time when the actual records eonfine the guilty to republican officials. They have noted with great surprise the Montgomery Advertisers hspersions on such great democratic names as Franklin K. Lane, Lindley M. Garrison and William c. McAdoo fin connection with, the derelictions of former Secretary Fall, former Secretary Denby, and others of the republican par tys when republicans, after the most herculean efforts, have failed to estab- lish any wrongdoing on the part of democratic officials or even to discover any facts on which to base an accu- sation.
 They feel that such newspaper atti- tude is not only unjust to living men, but is, by indirection, reflection upon the psrty's great var chieftain, Wood row Wilson, as showing lack of confi- dence in his judgment of the men who formed his Cabinet, and minimizing the achievements of his administration.
 ss Recall Owncrship Record
 But, in these dave of official scandal, party leaders do not fail to recall the record of ownership of the Montgomery Advertiser; how the taint of brewery and pro-German money hovers in it's editorial sanctum. They recall the chain of events showing, how William n. Sheehap, then and now editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, In association with Charles Fl. Allen, as publisher, in 1915 bought Frank F. Glass' interest in that paper through notes with col, lateral notes indorsed by brewers, and how several years later Victor H. Han son, owner aud puhliaher of the Bir- minsham News, bought control of the M6nfRomery Advertiser, Eheehau being retained as part owner and editor.
 Democratic leaders have not forgot ten that on Valentine day in 1918, when the nation was in the midst of war and when the moral forces of the country were doing their utmost to ban fish forever legalixed liquor traffic, w. q, Sheehan, then and now editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, executed note for $45,O00 to the Northwestern National bank of Philadelphia, to which was attached a collateral nete with the endorsements of Edward Landsberg for $5.y00; Gustave Pabst for $5,700; Henry YahIkamp for $2,860; August A. Busch for $14, ,250 l; Eugene Nj. .Keeley for $4,750; JoEn Moeriein for $4,750; the \. W. Cook Brewing company, by c. Michael Daussman. president, for $4,750, and Peter s. Theurer for $4,750.
 It is recalled here that it was Chris tain W. Feigenspan, of Newark, N. J., who testified before the senate commit tee created to investigate attempts of liquor interests to secure control of the press in the United States, that the in- dorsers of this collateral note were brewers.
 PaImer's Condemnation
 1t is also recalled that it was A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property cpsto. sdiap, who in August, 1918, said:
 The facts will soon appear which will conclusively show that twelve or fifteen German brewers of America, in association with the United States Brewers association, furnished the money, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, to buy a great news- paper in one of the chief cities of the nation: and it's publisher, without dis closing whose money had bought that organ of public opinion, in the very capital of the nation, in the shadow of the capital itself, has been fighting the battle of the liquor traffic.
 "The organized liquor traffic of the country is a vicious interest because it has been unpatriotic, because it has been pro-German in its sympathies and its conduct. Around these great brew cry organizations. owned by rich men, almost all of them of German birth and sympathy tat least before we entered the war) have grown up the societies, al the organizations of this country in- tended to keep young German immi- grants from becoming real Americans"
 Democratic leaders also do net for get that this same Senate committee which gave so much time and attention to an investigation of tbe transaction