The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
SIGNER OF FAKE
AFFIDAVIT SAYS
DICK ORDERED 1T
Pinchot and Oil Rivals
Make Perjury Exposure

(SpeclaI 10 Inc DAILY WOkh Eh.t
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov.
13.-NOt since the Teapot Dome
scandal broke" and deluged Of
ficial Washington with its evil
Flood, sweeping away the Hard
ing administration on its crest,
has the nations capital exper-
fenced the thrill which recent
disclosures in connection with
the Fall trial have given it.
Two Currents of Rumor.
Two main currents of rumor
are to be discerned; one is to the
effect that the activities of Will
lam j. Burns such as jury
lshadowing, fixing" and covert
if not open threats of blackmail, ETC.,
were carried on with the full knowl-
, edge of the White House if net s.ase-
its consent and encouragement
Their Arguments.
Advocates of this theory base their
argument on the belief that neither
President Coolidge or Standard Oil
really want Fall and Sinclair sent to
jail. 1t is pointed out by those close
to the administration that the '1n-
diana scandals and the prosecution
of high state officials have given a
new weapon to the Bolshevists." The
Fall trial, if it ended in a conviction,
would bring the shadow of Atlanta
Penitentiary across the White House.
So, say these unofficial voices,
William j. Burns was given more or
less of a free hand until the pressure
of coming presidential year made
itself felt in the court room where
sat the broken Fall, former cab
inet-mate of Coolidge.
The Second Explanation.
The second school Of thought, il
Washington gossip can be dignified
by this term, maintains that the death
of Harding, the ruin of Harry Daugh-
erty, the shooting of Jake Hamon by
his ex-mistress, the mysterious "sui-
eide" of Jesse Smith and the expo-
sure of Fall, clear the skirts of tho
Coolidge administration of the last
traces of Teapot Dome-with the ex-
ception Of that holder of many dark
| state William J. Burns.
The claim is made therefore, and
advanced with a boldness which as
tounds even hardened habitues of the
lobbies, that Burns was permitted to
dig his own political grave with false
affidavits and the attempted fixing"
of the federal jurors.
Three Objections.
1t is maintained in certain quar-
ters that the Coolidge administration
intends to kill three birds with one
stone-wipe off the last stain of Sim
clair oil, discredit William J. Burns
so that nothing he reveals out of a
storehouse of sinister knowledge.
whose existence no one doubts, will
be believed, and put forward the
Grand Old Party in 1929 as the one
political organization that stands for
ihe government of laws and not of
men" and is not afraid to clean its
own nest.
Political fortunes are being made
and lost as the investigators delve
deeper into the Fall trial.
One thing is certain. William J.
Burns is no longer the jaunty but
mysterious figure at whose appear
ance senators and even presidents
trembled in the heyday of the Hard
ing administration.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. Ia
VIM. j. Burns will have to leave his
job as chief boss of spies and stool
pigeons for the Interborough Rapid
Transit Co. of New York and rush
back to Washington to defend him.
self against charges that he at
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