The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-20
COOLIDGE WINS
POWERS LOST
To SENATE
Exposures in Probes, How
ever, Regarded As Unim-
portant by Old Guard.
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creasingly the Republican pab.ty's
chief asset.
Calvin coolidge today within the
Republican party in Washington
occupies q relatively much larger
place Of Importance than before the
Daugherty inquiry and the oil
inquiry began. The old dominance
of the Senate in the affairs OF the
Republican party is broken.
Under stress and danger the Re-
publican side Of the Senate broke
and ran. It surrendered its leader.
ship, and Calvin Coolidge. through
simply not running. has inherited
and taken over q large part Of that
leadership and 10 today a bigger
part Of the party than he ever was
before.
g. o. p. Power Shifted.
This shift Of weight and Of power
within the Republican party away
from the Senate and toward the
White House is regarded here as
the outstanding internal political
result Of the recent Investigations.
In the meantime, while the Old
Guardsters are claiming that the
Daugherty inquiry has revelaed
nothing of importance. there IL a
certain other element, chiefly of
progressives but including also
many conservatives, who feel and
claim that Daugherty has been
abundantly proved guilty.
These gentlemen tell the President
that every day Of delay in dismiss
ing Daugherty means an added
burden to the Republican party in
the next campaign; and it can be
truly said that the political pres
sure upon the President to dismiss
Daugherty has been many times
greater than the political pressure
In favor OF retaining him.
While Democrats in the Senate
are claiming that the President is
keeping Daugherty for political
reasons, the inward fact is that the
political threats made against the
President at the White House by
visitors opposed to Daugherty have
been much more numerous and
much more emphatic than any
threats made against him by visitors
friendly to Daugherty.
Republicans ION Strike"
There are Republican United
States Senators today who are de-
liberately ION strike" and de-
Iiberately and designedly doing
nothing for the Republican party
until the President dismisses
Daugherty and they have let the
President know their state Of mind.
The President, nevertheless, has
not yet yielded to them. and
Daugherty's friends and closest in
formants are today still convinced
that the President will allow, Daugh
erty to stay in the Department Of
Justice until his trial by the Brook
hart Senatorial Committee 10 con-
cluded. -
Meanwhile the sentiment Of the
mass Of political Washington is
that Senator Wheeler Of Montana.
as the chief prosecutor for the
Brookhart Committee, has per-
formed an amazing feat Of skill
and of audacity in tearing the
covers off the Washington political
underworld and in proving that
Daugherty and Harding tolerated
the presence here of the inhabitants
OF that underworld.
1t Is believed here that the chief
general result Of the Daugherty
inquiry will be that it will be a
long time before Presidents or
Cabinet members again will think
it amusing or wise to associate with
rough-stuff characters given over
to the pursuit Of drinking parties
and card games and fight films.
Society To Be PuritanicaI.
Washington official society is 60
ing to be quite puritanical for a
while. Credit for that development
is widely admiringly handed to
Senator Wheeler.
On the other hand it is also
widely felt that he has not yet
really at all proved that the politi.
cal underworld Of Washington ever
in any way actually controlled
Daugherty.
It is remarked, for instance, that
IL the money paid by CASTOR B.
Means to Daugherty's friend Jess
Smith had ever reached Daugherty,
1t would follow that Daugherty
would protect Means, whereas
Daugherty long ago indicted Means.
Analysis Of the testimony shows
that no end Of alleged Influence"
with Daugherty was bought and
sold, but it fails to show the mo-
ment and the spot where that al
legged Influence" controlled Daugh-
erty.
It becomes likely, therefore, that
Daugherty presently will claim that
he has been personally exonerated
and will thereupon resume his
former consideration of a retirement
by him from public life.
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