The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
SENATOR WALSH HAS HIS TROUBLES.


should not, be any doubt about that. Consider
the circumstances surrounding the Wheeler
case and the oil Investigation:
More or less at the behest of Senator LaFol-
lette he directed an investigation to establish
the fact that Harry Sinclair, heavy contri-
butor to the Republican campaign funds had
bribed Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior
to hand over to him Tea Pot Dome. He labor
ed night and day to trace a 100000 payment
from Sinclair to Fall. While he was proceeding
upon this theory out of clear sky Ned Nc
Lean, the millionaire publisher, with more
good nature than good sense announced that
he had made the mysterious loan Mclean
was at Palm Beach and Senator Walsh with
stenographers, sergeant-at-arms and notarles
FASTENED thither to take the young mans de-
position, and the young man promptly replied
"apple sauce"
Downcast but determined the Senator from
Montana hurried back to Washington and
spent weeks checking up McLean's confidential
employees and correspondence He examined
almost everything Mclean oWned-except his
cellar He was stumped. He turned to the
White House-but the mud wouldn't stick.
1t looked like stale-mate, when, suddenly
who should turn up in Washington without
being invited much less being sub poenaed, but
Edward W. Dohney, Senator Walsh's oldest
and richest friend. He announced that he had
loaned the 100000 to Fall his old pal of the
mining days just as any poor prospector might
lend flyer to another Furthermore what OF
it?
The country had good deal to say about it
and the more it said the more Mr.. Doheny
WINGED under the criticism. His baby blue
eyes turned green. He felt that he had been
treated courageously by an old friend, partcu-
larly when that friend happened to be the lead
er of a party which he had financed SO gener-
ously. Mr.. Doheny was angry at his fellow
Democrats generally and at Senator Walsh
particularly. He returned to the stand a few
DAYS later and announced that William G. Nc
Adoo had been on his pay roll without benefit
of publicity, ever since he resigned from the
Treasury department. 1t so happened that
Mr.. McAdoo was Senator Walshs candidate
for the Presidential nomination, and this was
well known to Mr. .Doheny, but after this par
ticular testimony, the former Secretary of the
Treasury had no more chance for the nomlna-
ton than the proverbial SNOWFALL
Exactly what the emotions of Senator Walsh
were at the loss of his richest friend and his
presidential candidate at one swoop we do not
know but we dare say that Mr.. Sinclair and
Mr. Mclean had their emotions tinged some
what with amusement
Meanwhile Senator Burton Wheeler who re-
signed as Federal District Attorney in Mon
tana in 1918, because his unpopularity tended
to eopardze Senator Walsh's chances for re-
election, found himself in trouble at the De-
partment of Justice. He was charged with &C
cepting fee to take from Uncle Sam some
lands, which, strangely enough contained oils
and minerals Walsh the oil prosecutor there
upon became the oil defender and charged that
his colleague and client was being framed"
up.
All this happened in 1924 New Years roll
ed around We cannot say exactly where
Senator Wheeler spent New Years Eve but we
shrewdly suspect that wherever he was, he
had both ears to the ground listening for more
ominous sounds from the Department of
Justice and in due course his vigilance was
justified by the assembling of a second grand
jury to investigate certain matters having to
do with the violation of the postal laws.
This chronicle would be incomplete without
specifying the whereabouts of Senator Walsh
on this suspicious evening. Luckily there
need be no omission. He was the guest of
Med" Mclean in the great gay house on Eye
street where the chosen ones had gathered TIC
make merry. Apparently he and Mr.. Mclean
had forgotten the little unpleasantness having
to do with OIL
The whisperings which Senator Wheeler had
already guessed, became audible within fort
night and Senator Walsh opened his big guns
ON Harlan Fisk Stone, as fine character and
as great lawyer as ever graced the Attorney
Generals office, all because that gentleman had
dared to do his duty and call second grand
jury to discuss Walshs colleague and client
Med" McLean's Washington Post took Senator
Walsh to task rather sharply for. this gratuit
Gus attack upon Mr.. Stone but had the forbear
ance to omit his name. Whereupon Senator
Walsh to the establishment of those who hac
the honor of meeting him in the hospitable anc
convivial Mclean home, announced in the
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