The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
NEW YORK PAPER
QUESTIONS MOVE
OF SENATOR jim
Watson May Be Double
Crossing Mellon Edi-
toriaI Suggests.
BY c. A. Randall
Times Staff CorresnOndent

Times Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 31.-That
Senator Jim Watson is now en-
gagged in a deep plot to "outsmart
Secretary Mellon, is the contention
of the New York Times, which in
an editorial entitled-"Did Watson
Do 1t" today, says in part:
HAS Senator jim Watson, the
Indiana keynote, merely out
smarted' Secretary Mellon or has
he ''doublecrossed" him? In the
bright lexicon of Hoosier politics
the former feat is laudable. The
latter is regarded as unprofessionial.
unless you can get away with it. -
Jim was long the special de-
fender Of the treasury. He made
speeches against the investigation
by special committee of the
Senate. of which he was chairman
until his resignation last week, of
the Internal Revenue Bureau, in
Guiding the prohibition unit.
Yet it appears from the state
ment of Senator King of Utah and
Senator Jones of New Mexico his
Democratic associates on that. COM
mittee, and Of Senator Couzens Of
Michigan, Republican. more or less
limited, that the plan for opening
fire" on the Treasury on Sept /,
when the investigation is to be re-
newed by the committee, with paid
counsel to hunt up and make things
as unpleasant as possible for the
Treasury and as useful as possible to
the Democrats, came from the deep
revolving bosom of truthful James.
Shameless Morgan"
To be sure, Secretary Mellon
brought these troubles on himself.
Senator Watson's demand for the
head of Bert Morgan, Federal pro-
hibition director Of Indiana, who
shamelessly appeared at the Repub-
lican national convention and not as
a Watson worker, has received sym
pathetic notice from us.
Mr.. Morgan's offense Is even
ranker than It looks. For he is Harry
News man. If the postmaster gen
eral appointed this man Morgan,
Senator Watson is ready to go to bat
for Frank Rowley Of Angola, whom
he picked quite while ago as Nor
gan's successor. But a deeper woe.
a greater insult to the spurned
beauty of Rushville, is revealed by
the Washington correspondent of
our neighbor. the Sun. On Thurs
day, June. when the Republican con-
vention nominated Coolidge, the
Pennsylvania delegation, among
others. caucused and decided to sup
port for Vice President Representa-
tive Sanders of Indiana, who was
said to have been acceptable to the
President and who now is chairman
of the Republican speakers bureau.
when Senator Watson heard of
this he approached Mr.. Mellon on
the mezzanine floor of the Cleveland
Hotel and in the hearing of the
Sun correspondent, angily re-
preached Mellon for offering the sup
pert of the large Pennsylvania dele
cation and the Coolidge Administra-
ton to Mr.. Sanders. whom Senator
Watson regarded as persona non
grata to the Indiana delegation.
"'No Excuse
ITO narue a Sanders to an Indiana
that boasts a Watson was a sin and
shame. There can be no excuse, no
forgiveness for il, even II Mr. Mel
Ion did have a hand in the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Dawes. The Secretary
should have remembered that Mr..
Watson. a candidate for President in
January, condescended enough in
consenting to become a candidate for
the nomination for Vice President in
June.
Sanders, Morgan. investigation Of
the Internal Revenue Bureau: How
impressive and unerring is Watso-
Man logic. Is there something am
biguous. sudden, feline, Preacher
GUS" as the political vocabulary
would have It, in "Jim's" ostenta-
tious ferocity against an inquiry
whose revival he actually inspired?
do his proceedings remarkably
resemble the abhorred practice Of
'double-crossing2 Well, if Morgan is
put out and Rowley of Angola put in,
everything will be forgiven and the
people of Rushville will sa ythat
Jim is about as smart as they made"