The producers news., 1927-03-18

terwards to his friends in Montana.
he said he got the best advice he
received in Washington from the old
crafty Colonel. He advised Wheeler
not to pay any attention to the prec-
edent long established in the Senate
OF deferring to older members and
remaining silent the first few years,
but to jump into the fray from the
start. In the attack on Daugherty
this advice of Col. House proved of
lncalculable value to Vanderlip and
the interests which were after the
scalp of the Attorney General. The
sudden and well prepared offensive
OF Wheeler, his utter disregard of the
traditions of the Senate, the fact that
his personality was not familiar to
the older members of the highest
legislative body in the United States,
at first caused confusion in the ranks
OF the hackers of the President and
his cabinet.
Oil Press Features Wheeler's Attack
Their knowledge of Wheeler was so
limited that they overestimated his
ability. The spectacular attack of
this young westemer, backed by the
army OF Vanderlip detectives, and in
line with the campaign of Walsh
against the Independent oil men, con-
fused even the most seasoned sena-
tors.
From some mysterious source the
press of the country got its orders
to feature Wheeler's attack on
Daugherty. Public sentiment became
so aroused that the Attorney General
of the United States was regarded as
a dangerous criminal. He was forced
to resign.
The strange part of the whole
thing was that the Oil Trust stopped
there; that they did not try to have
Daugherty impeached and that in
two trials in which he has since been
the defendant, in charges involving
moral turpitude while in office, he
was acquitted. Wheeler now con-
tents himself with talking about do
ings at the Little Green House on K
Street" where the Attorney General
and his friends met before he was
ousted from office. The Standard
Oil was successful in driving the
friends of the Independents out of
the cabinet and let the matter rest
there.
''Why Wheeler's Silence About the
A. c. NJ"
Several persons in Montana are not
aware that the so-called investiga.
tions, in which Walsh and Wheeler
starred in Washington, were conflicts
! between rival capitalistic interests
They think the willy Montana sena,
tors of their own volition, engaged il
a war on entrenched privilege and or
ganized wrong. Wheeler being a clev-
er demagogue, seizes on this kink ir
| the public mind and makes capital Out
of the fact that he fought Daugherty
and Burns. In former days he lineC
up progressive sentiment by attack
ing the Anaconda Company. Now he
covers up the big question mark il
the minds of Montana voters as tx
the reasons for his silence on tn,
big company by describing the Cit
tie House on X Street" as a den O.
iniquity which he cleaned out. HI
paints himself as a sort of a Prince
George fighting the dragon of specia
privilege. He votes for the worlC
court when the British foreign Offic,
through Col. House directs him to d,
so; he fights the tariff on coppe
designed to protect the American
miner of the west from the compe
titiOn Of cheap labor in the Anacon
Ga COmpany's South American prop
critics; he talks about the poems o
Nicaragua while the Anaconda Com
pany shuts down its largest mines il
Butte when its poems in Chile in
I crease the production of copper; h
ignores the gigantic steals of A Nit
chel Palmer, as alien property Gus
todian during the war while he at
tacks Daugherty; he fails to say
word about the flying coffins" an
the huge aircraft scandals which too
place under the protecting agis o
John d. Ryan, the emporer of COP
per- The great question mark in tn
minds of Montana progressives VIII
still fail to see the duplicity of thei
senatorial representative is: "Wh
Wheeler's silence about the Anacor
da ?" He tries to dodge this but tn
question mark will become so big a
election time that he must declar
himself. 1t will be as lightning i
the skies.
Thumb Nail Sketch of Wheeler
In the next article we will give
!. thumb nail sketch of the political lif
of the junior senator from Montana
In the coming article we will max
reference to his life only as its al
!, fects public questions and political is
sues of the day. The mantle of char
ity will be thrown about his privat
life. The story of how he charge
Sheridan county a $4,000 fee for it
case against Beiseker interests an
) how Beiseker moved scores of thous
ands of dollars to North Dakot
while Wheeler was on the case an
even holding conferences with tn
banker in Plentywood, and how ar
other lawyer was paid $4,000 NOR
by the county to straighten out tn
mess Wheeler had left in this cast
will be passed. His dealings wit