The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-02-29
PRESIDENT LIVES
UP TO HIS NAME
OF COOL CALVIN
History Is Being Made in
Words Since Oil Was Dis
covered on Potomac
MEMBERSHIPS TALK
BOrah Tells Daugherty to His
Face He Is Embarrassment
to Administration

bureau of Publication and Education)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 20
A good deal has been said from time
to time about history being made in
Washington. Now this word history
has been changed to hysterias and
Washington is full of it ever since
oil was discovered on the Potomac.
Hysteria has driven Secretary of
the Navy DENLY to resign his office
after the senate tried it's best to
get him to resign. Now hysteria is
after Attorney General Daugherty
and it may get him as it did DENLY
before the end of the fight. Hysteria
has besmirched prominent candidates
for the presidency, it has soiled the
chances of young Teddy" Roosevelt
for the time being in his ambitions
for the gubernatorial nomination in
New York in which he had hoped to
tread the path taken by his illustri-
Gus father. 1t has likewise involved
one public officer, and it is said that
a prominent u. S. senator has gotten
his fingers oiled up, but for some rea-
son the senate committee has not yet
given to the public his name. The
people will, no doubt, demand to know
who he is just the same as the names
of all the others have been made pub
lie. There is no legitimate reason
why senator should escape in this
dragnet. This senator is said to have
profited immensely in speculation in
Sinclair oil stock on account of the
tips he received through a broker
age house.
Mr.. McAdoo may come back but
his coming is uncertain. One man
Of prominence says that "McAdoo is
eligible but not available" That may
hit the nail on the head right now.
A New Slogan
President Coolidge seems to have
emerged from all this hysteria and
oil excitement without being smeared
to any great degree. Here is a new
slogan originated by a Washington
man the other day: "Calvin Coolidge
trusts the country to trust him"
That will be verified or disproven
next November when the voters have
their say at the polls.
Right now Attorney General
Daugherty is in the spotlight on the
American stage. Will he resign or
will he not? That's the question the
people are asking. He says he won't
retire under fire. That's a good one
if he can make it stick Senator
Wheeler, of Montana, is after him
with a resolution and vitriolic at
tacks in the senate. By the way,
Montana seems to be coming to the
front in these investigations. 1t was
Senator Walsh, of Montana, who
pushed matters in the oil cases and
got Denby's goat in the wind-up.
Now his colleague, Senator Wheeler,
serving his first session in the senate,
has started after the legal head of
the government. Montana seems ap-
parently a monopoly on starting
these investigations, all of which
makes good copy and interesting
reading nowadays. Senator Borah of
Idaho, has joined Wheeler and others,
and wants Daugherty to move on.
The Idaho senator went up to the
White House the other night to talk
it over with the president, and much
to his surprise found Mr.. Daugherty
present, but that did not stop the
senator from Idaho, who never lacks
courage in anything he undertakes,
whether right or wrong. He told
Mr.. Daugherty to his face, in the
presence of the president, so it is
reported, that the country had ap-
parently lost confidence in Mr..
Daugherty and that he ought to get
out and save embarrassment to the
president. That was a little raw. to
say nothing of being unpleasant, but
Borah thought it his duty to speak
out in meetin' and he did.
Washington newspaper men seem
to have reached the conclusion that
at this time Mr.. Daugherty has
ceased to be an asset to the Coolidge
administration and becomes a liza
bility.
Insult to Cummins
In reviving his resolution, Senator
Wheeler has openly insulted Senator
Cummins, president pro tenn of the
senate, by insisting on naming the
committee to handle the Daugherty
investigation according to the view
expressed by some of the regular
senator's. 1t has always been the
custom to have the chair name such
committees, but in this instance SEN
ator Wheeler wanted to name the
men and he suggested that the Daugh-
erty committee consist of himself as
chairman; and Senators Brookheart,
Of Iowa; Jones, Of Washington; Nc
Lean, of Connecticut; and Ashhurst.
of Arizona.
Iysteria in Washington has Gre
ated a new name for Frank A. Van
derlip, prominent banker Of New
York City, who testified here before
the oil committee recently. He is
now dubbed "Vanderslip" on account
Of the terrible break he made in ira
ducing the memory Of a dead presi-
dent. All Of the ugly, nasty, muss
he stirred up over former President
Harding selling his newspaper in
Marion, Ohio, and trying to hook
that deal up with the oil troubles,
fell fatter than a founder. There
wasn't the slightest foundation for
such nasty rumors, and the truth
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