The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-04-17
LITTLE JOURNEY TO
NATIONAL CAPITOL
HERALD EDITOR HAS OPPOR
TUNITY TO STUDY PRESI-
DENT AT CLOSE RANGE
CONGRESS PLAYS HORSE
NEWSPAPER MEN AND OFFIC.
IALS ARE CONVINCED OF
KNUTSON'S INNOCENCE

NE w SE <AI6N WIEN AMI UT H.
IALS ARE CONVINCED OF
KNUTSON'S INNOCENCE
When the Herald editor was en-
route between Chicago and Washing
ton on the Pennsylvania railroad, two
weeks ago, he met up with most in
teresting gentleman who was return
ing from Japan where he had spent
several years in Yokohoma as chief
engineer for photograph company.
At the time of the quake he was in a
building completely destroyed and
was quite seriously injured. His wife
and, baby in another part of the city
were uninjured. He stated to the
Herald editor that at least thirty per
cent of the Japanese navy was COM
pletely lost during the quake and that
the loss of life was thousands heavier
than was given out to the public. He
said that that moral plans of the Jap
anaese since the quake had reached
a very low level.
After we arrived in Washington,
we were put up at the National Press
Club where we were privileged to
meet and mix for a week with some
OF the brightest newspaper minds in
the world. Tuesday evening, April
LIST, this organization put on a snappy
All Fools party the features of which
were burlesques on the Daugherty and
! Tea Pot Dome investigations. The
witnesses and the prosecuting at
torneys in both cases were men who
were covering these Investigations for
their respective newspapers, many of
whom were very strong Democrats
Following the close of this entertain
ment the Herald editor talked with
Mr.. Tiller, head of the Washington
bureau of the Baltimore Sun, a very
staunch Democratic newspaper, who
had charge of the Daugherty burl-
esque, and stated to him that from
the attitude of the newspaper men it
was quite apparent they were not
very strongly sold on either one of
the Investigations. He said that the
average newspaper man in Washing
ton looked upon the investigations IS
being largely for political purposes,
but that they were writing the kind
of stuff their respective newspapers
seemed to want.
a.
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
following the meeting of the cabinet,
President Coolidge receives the news
paper men. At the meeting Friday
afternoon, March %, we had the priv
ilege of meeting the nations chief
executive following the conference
with the newspaper men and on the
Tuesday following we also attended
the gathering and had an opportunity
to study Mr.. Coolidge at close range
for about twenty minutes. Make no
mistake about It, Calvin Coolidge is a
big man. He absolutely refuses to
get excited, and is apparently keeping
his feet on solid ground all the time.
The newspaper men of Washington,
while they don't have that feeling of
love and knship that they had for
the late President Harding, neverthe-
less they have respect for Coolidge's
ability and hei is growing in their
esteem as the days go on.
Through the influence Of William
E. Daley, Washington representative
of the National Editorial Association,
we were permitted to see congress
at work from both the House and
Senate press galleries. Neither of
these legislative assembly rooms COM
pare in beauty with the House or
Senate chamber of the Minnesota
State Capitol.
Most of the speeches delivered in
Congress, printed in the COMPRESSION
al Record, and with which the coun-
try is flooded during campaign time,
and where the word applause" is
located in brackets at irregular in
tervals, is paid but little attention to
by the average member of either
branch of Congress. In fact many
of the addresses are not even de-
livered, but the members are given
permission to print" The people of
Minnesota have this week been flood
ed with a campaign address by Rep.
!Thos. D. Schall, of the 10th District.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Schall is
now a candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States senator
and he is useing his franking privilege
to get his propaganda before the peo-
pie of the state without paying post
age upon it.
There are perhaps a dozen men of
outstanding ability in the Senate, a
number of whom were Republicans,
Democrats, and of course, Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin. In this con-
nection it may be interesting to Her
aid readers to know that Senator Ship
steadt of Minnesota is developing to
some extent. Senator Johnson is not
taken seriously by anyone.
The people of the Sixth district
are intensely interested in the attitude
of official Washington relative to the
unfortunate circumstances in which
Congressman Knutson finds himself
at this time. The Herald editor talked
with scores of newspaper men about
Mr.. Knutson and it can be safely
said that there is not newspaper
man in Washington who is not abso--
lutely confident of the innocence OF
Mr.. Knutson of the charges made
against him. We also talked with
several congressman and cabinet of