Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-21

mess from oppressive interference
by governmental agents.
The prosecution and punish
ment of those who by criminal con-
Fspiracy9in restraint Of trade make
war on honest business.
For the swift and sure punish
ment of all public plunderers,
bribe-givers, election corruptionists
aandl other malefactors.
/ "These are the great issues"
SENATOR Reed declared. upon
fmany other problems we may be in
division, but here is field on
which the democratic party may
plant its banners; here is the
assemble and where democratic vic
tory may be achieved"
Reviewing. then the republican
administration since Woodrow Will
SON left the White House, the Mis-
souri, senator adverted to the naval
arms treaty, the settlement of for
| eigh debts, the 1926 Pennsylvania
senatorial primary and the oil scan
dal, and assailed President Coolidge,
Secretary Mellon, Albert b. Fall,
| former interior secretary, and Har-
Try M. Daugherty, attorney-general
in both ,the Harding and Coolidge
administrations.
The president was attacked for
keeping Daugherty in the cabinet
after ths exposures Iby the Teapot
Dome and Daugherty Investigations,
and for failure to Gift hand"
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closing the leasing of ithe naval oil
Preserves under conditions Of frauds
which have since been judicially de-
clared by the supreme court OF
the United States.
Senator Reed asserted that Mel
Ion had been appointed to the treas
ury portfolio by President Harding
despite the inhibition of n federal
statute against naming to that po-
sition any man engaged in trade
and that Mellon in his administra-
ton of fhe treasury mot only had
/ favored the wealthy in the matter
of tax reduction, but had approved
7 debt settlements costing the Amer
ican taxpayers billions of dollars.
Finally, he said, Mellon had joined
lWlIH HIS DIOInGI dIIO uGpllSW W w
ganize ''the scheme to raise $2,-
{, 100000 to corruptly secure the re-
nomination of Senator Pepper" in
!, the Pennsylvania primary in 1926.
! Charging that President Harding
had been selected as the republican
presidential candidate in 1920 in Ia
room where a few wealthy men or
Representatives of wealthy menG con-
sorted with Harry M. Daugherty.
then beyondt doubt formulating the
conspiracy of robbery and theft
which has since disgraced the re-
public" Senator Reed said Fall, as
] interior secretary, had accepted
tthe bribes of the conspirators; did
their bidding, and corruptly trans
ferred to certain of them the vast
oil reserves of the republic.
! Describing Daus'herty as "a Gre
tature covered with the leprosy Of
corruption" the Missourian declar-
ed that this official ''paralyzed the
department of Justice so that its
farm was, not stretched out to ap-
prehend Fall and his fellow con-
spirators."
Attacking the republican admin
istration also for enactment of the
j Fordney -McCumber tariff law and
| for what he said was a concentra-
] ton of power in Washington, Sena-
tor Reed asked how stood the case
at this time.
TRUSTS multiply and the presi-
dent does not choose ito inter
fere," he said.
! Monopoly grows fat and the pres
ident does not choose to- act.
Combinations are formed and
Iarrogantly pursue their methods un-
der the protection of the govern
ment, and the president chooses
to approve.
Commissions are packed by in
terested parties and their attor-
neys, and the president Chooses to
do the packing"
'In all the long years of the
Coolidge regime not a single great
| trust has been dissolved by opera
tion of law" the senator added.
"Not a single effective blow has
been struck in favor of the liberia
tion of the commerce of the nation
from the controlFof thoset who have
conspired in the teeth of the stat
utes of the land.
"Mr. Coolidge idoes not choose
to act.'
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