The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-12-03

Washington.-(FP)-Ned Mclean,
who figured sensationally in the Tea
pot Dome scandal with his mysteri- /
Gus Geographic messages in the code
of peaches, apricots and cherries" |
mas published a leading editorial in
his Washington Post, headed, "A Fill |
thy and Vicious Book" 1t deals, Of
course, with Samuel Hopkins Adams
"Revelry," which has gone into a
third edition.
McIsean was so close to Warren
Harding when the latter came into
the White House that Harding and
/ Albert Fall stayed at McLean's house
while they were framing up the cab
! met and other important matters,
just before Inauguration day. Hard
ing was the only president who ever
associated socially with Mclean. The
publisher says "Revelry" is "scurril-
ous," and that the Fall-DOheny de-
Tense lawyers questioned all prospec-
tive jurymen as to whether they had
read it, because of ats false and
scandalous illusions to President
Harding and members of his cabinet,
under thinly yelled aliases"
Suppress the book, Mclean urges.
That was what he urged, in vindic-
tive terms, of the Teapot Dome and
= Wheeler Investigations of the Hard
ing regime. Mclean employed a
whole battery of lawyers to protect
him against the curiosity of Gen.
Walsh of Montana, three years ago,
: and he went into hiding in Palm
Beach with an alacrity that has new
, er been fully explained. But now he
comes forward with a declaration
, that "The writer of this sO-called
= novel prostitutes his reputation fol
= the sake of gaining a few dollars by
befouling the character Of President
Harding. Cabinet members and sen
Z ators are included in the list OF
I criminals whose incredibly base in
/ trigues are set forth in the volume
!. The object was to produce a wOrl
purporting to be fiction, and then t.
inject a mass of beastliness, crime
9 vulgarity and blasphemy as true
4 picture of conditions in Washington
= 1t is false, indecent and obscene"
= Mclean has just been on the wit
ness Sbdllu III Tile dAA-OO4AClly COli
:. spiracy trial, explaining the intimat,
n relations between himself and Fal
h in the merry days of Harding. HI
has stated under oath that he len
, Fall 100000 and that Fall quick.
T returned his check because Fall hat
secured 100000 from Doheny. Nc
J. Leans paper is jealous in its pres
r entation of every bit of argumen
! and evidence helpful to Fall and Do
heny. One of his houses, just at tn
rear of the Shoreham hotel on h
e Street, was the rent-free residence o
Daugherty and Jess Smith and was
- rendezvous of their friends for
U long time. This was shown durin
70 the Senate committee investigation
% of Daugherty's regime. In view @
N his prominence in the Harding-Daugf
y erty group, McLean's moral appes
" for suppression of the book has rails
~ ed laugh in the capital.
IN Rep. BlantOn of Texas, rival
~ Garrett of Tennessee as the mos
~ persistent anti-labor agitator on tn
~ Democratic side of the House, ha
20 sent to Washington correspondents
10 series of resolution adopted in h
n home district, endorsing him as
~ senatorial candidate in 1928. Sc
~ Mayfield, favorite of the Klan, wi
~ be up for denomination that yea
20 Blanton's district convention d