The Bozeman courier., March 26, 1924, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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The Bozeman Courier
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF GALLATIN COUNTY
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acts of kindness and the exercise of the other virtues which are
sure to automatically follow.
DISGUSTING DEMOCRATIC PARTISANSHIP
Without doubt the most disgusting show of extreme Demo
cratic partisanship that has so far reared its cobra head in this
community was the recent veiled editorial attack on President
While no sensible person for one moment entertain even the
suggestion that the public acts of the high executive of this nation
are at all sacrosanct or immune from exposures of acts of mal
Calvin Coolidge, in which a weak and self-contradictory attempt
was made to draw the forver vice president into the Tea Pot Dome
oil scandal.
feasance, even the veiled suggestion, arrived at by hint and in
nuendo and applied in the spirit of "the faint praise that damns, 1 "
cannot but re-act strongly against the perpetrator, and serve as a
boomerang which, failing to reach the object of the attack, re
bounds and strikes and stains the mud-thrower with his own faith.
Intelligent people know that Calvin Coolidge was no more re
sponsible for the personal appointments made by the late President
Harding, than the officers of a bank could be morally held re
sponsible for the personal acts of an absconding cashier. The
recent effort to besmirch the reputation of President Coolidge is,
therefore, not only one of the weakest, most puerile and dastardly
acts of character assassination so far attempted in a presidential'
election year, but, regardless of the fact that it came dangerously
near the brink of malicious libel, will be branded by all intelligent
and clear-thinking voters as an un-American piece of Democratic
partisanship that will not be forgotten at the polls this year.
The only reason or excuse for the recent depraved and men
dacious attack on the president was the reading into the record
of the public hearings of the oil investigation of two telegrams
signed in the name of President Coolidge and addressed to E. B.
McLean in Florida.
1 here was nothing in the text of the telegrams to give the
slightest warrant for any suspiciion that they had anything at
to do with the oil leases.
Immediately upon the messages being
read into the record of the hearings, the White House issued state
ments showing their utter irrelevance to the work of the com
mittee.
Had the committee been in the habit of making public all
telegrams, correspondence and documents which came into its
possession, without any preliminary examination as to their relev
ancy or significance, then there might have been some justifica
tion for dragging in the two messages from the White House. But,
the public has been informed on no less authority than the
mittee itself that this has not been its practice.
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« tv w A y chairma " f 'to* committee and by j
Senator \\ alsh that data coming into its hands is carefully sorted
in order that matter which has no connection or bearing upon the
oil leases or the manner of their making may not clutter up the :
records. True, these statements have not been borne out in many
cases where witnesses have been called and examind without
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othr apparent * ason than to give slander, scandal and gossip the 1
dignity of being embodied in an official transcript.
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But the advertised practice of the committee to scrutinize
documents in its possession tor the purpose of keeping out of the |
record irrelevant matter has been scrupulously followed where-:
ever members of the committee were implicated. There has been
very tender solicitude upon i le jart of the committee for the repu-|
Every effort has been
made to keep out of the record any letters or telegrams which
might create even the slightest impression tb i he is not so disin
terested and so free from partisanship in thri whole matter as he
has insisted.
Only two clays before the Coolidge messages were read into
1 he record, the committee ard Senator Walsh became greatly per
turbed because they learn» d i was common knowledge among 1
newspaper reporters that th j committee was in possession of tele
grams passing between Senator Walsh and Mr. Doheny so recently i
as the latter part of last December, which the committee had care
fully suppressed.
The committee were unanimously of the opinion that
telegram) had no deievancy whatever to the subject under con-!
tation and the feeling of Senator Walsh.
The committee then L • k great pains to let Senator Walsh, in
opening the session, explain away these telegrams. In his ex
planation he clearly exhibited his peevishness that the telegrams
had been sent to the committee by the telegraph company and
«erted his great indignation in the following language:
This telegram (Doheny'a telegram to him) as will be noted is
from Los Angeles. The committee asked for no telegrams from
Los Angeles at all. It asked for telega?ms in and out of Pahn
Beach and New Orleans. Somebody busied himself by going out
side of the request of the committee to lug in this telegram from
Los Angeles.
Chairman Lanroot of the committee mari 1 the following state
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THE COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT
By Walter C. Hawes
All these brazen city dailies think they are tremendous shakes,
How they like to sling the satire at us seedy country jakes!
How they flaunt the shrieking scareheads! Hoy they sling the colored
ink
For some high-tened hootch carousal or the latest movie stink,
Till 1 got a little weary listening how the city boys
Drown the still small voice of wisdom with a fog horn full of noise.
I prefer the homegrown doings; I am fed up over much
With the rowings of the Frenchies and the Jappies and the Dutch;
Let me have the home-town paper; take the noisy sheets away;
Let's hear what the correspondents from the country districts say.
Has Jim Gordon built a house yet? Tell us how r the ball team scored,
Are there any brand new babies? Anybody bought a Ford?
Did they paint the old church over? Will they ever bore for oil?
Anybody had the measles, or hay fever, or a boil?
Has May Latham got a fellow? Is John Allen married yet?
Has Sam Martin made the riffle? He was in an awful sweat.
Anybody made their fortune? Anybody played the fool?
What became of Billy Rodgers' boy that ran away from school?
Who's been giving Sunday dinners ? Who has been invited out ?
Who was first to get through threshing? Who has caught the big
gest trout?
Tell us how the crops are coming. Is the weather wet or clear?
How's the apples and the turkeys?—that's the stuff we want to hear.
Let them joke about the country—say that you are green and slow—
It's the country correspondence that makes the home-town paper go.
—Publishers' Auxiliary.
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l8lderat,on ' and in accordan <* with its practice, excluded it form,
' 1 Wiegrams to be read into the record * *.
This being the practice of the committee, as stated on the
excUhG *°r it on an> other giound than the lou hope to be
?m * rcb tbe leputation of the chief executive of the United States
! coward s de ' * ce °* i nnuen< ^° an( i implication.
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authority of the chairman, by what rule were the two messages
from the White House read into the record ? There was not the
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tn fact, these circumstances surrounding it all would justify
the impression that the whole thing had been deliberately planned
an( ^ carefully staged. It was preceded by speeches on the Senate
^°° r by such political blatherskits as Tom Heflin intimating that
name of the president would be connected in some dishonorable
way m vest ^ at i°n. This vile charge was whispered
arounc * b\ the Democratic scandal mongers for a day or two, and
l ^ en came ^ ntroduc ^ on tbe two telegrams into the record!
This procedure bears out the popular impression, which has
steadily been growing into a conviction, that the oil investigations;
; whoever might have been their purpose and motive in the begin
nin S' bave degenerated into a medium of dignifying slander and
i ?°ssip and a vehicle of base and unscrupulous editorial partisan
i s bip by the Democratic press,
WHAT DOES McADOO KNOW, T. J.?"
! In opposing the selection of Messrs. Pomerene and Roberts as
| the government's counsel in the oil investigation, Senator Thomas
Walsh, of Montana, said: '
"These are the two men. Bear in mind that they are called
. upon to handle legislation that involves the most intricate and
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all]most profound questions arising under the law in relation to the
disposition of the public lands, and neither of them has
occasion to inform himself in regard thereto. Each of them tells
us that the whole thing is a sealed book to him.
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Senator Dill, of Washington, also opposed confirmation of Mr.
Pomerene on the same ground, saying:
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In the appointment of Mr. Pomerene the president has chos
en a man who has had no experience at all in public land law.
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Yet both Walsh and Dill insist that William G. McAdoo's em
ployment by Mr. Doheny on a $250.000 contract was brause of
McAdoo's legal talent, and not because of his political pJÎ as ex
cabinet member, son-in-law of the Democratic preside*
mate friend of the secr etary of the interior. How much
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expenence
in "public land law" had McAdoo when Doheny employed him?
Yet Walsh sends word to the McAdoo round-up in Chicago that
none of the oil smell clings to McAdoo's garments. He sends this
word tnrough an oil man of Montana—a man who makes a spe
ciâlty of fettiat oil kn»d leases,
DEFLATION AND THE WHEAT GROWERS
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There is absolute falsehood in the statement made recently ;
by a sout ^ ern newspaper that "the party in power is primarily"
and essential Lv responsible for conditions new prevailing in agri
cu ^ uia * America. The statement was made with particular ref
erence the price of wheat, but the editor of that southern publi
CiUi0n not tor a moment admit that the Republican party is
res P° nsible f° r the high price cotton growers are getting for the r!
product. Of course not. The scarcity of cotton, due to the
° f U °" Wee ' ri1, brought the high P rices -
The fact is, as everybody knows, the wheat growers in-!
creased tbeir acreage during the war in response to the plea'
01 the £° vernIT ient that they produce more wheat,
the encoura ^ e ^ent of what was supposed to be a guaranteed mini
|mum price !or wheat - they bought more land, at high prices, and
went into debt. Then the Democratic administration precipitated
its deflation program in the summer of 1920, after the farmers
had incurred most of the cost of producing the crop. The losses
that year were enormous and farmers have gone on
crops in the hope of making up their losses,
a surplus and low prices.
far , a ri he gove "imei,i has had anything to do with the
plight of the farmers, the responsibility rests with the previous
administration, which administered the guaranteed price law in
such a w. as to make the supposed minimum price a maximum
price. Flauen bo ight land at h gh prices and were not permitted
te receive prices for their crops on a basis which would justify
the investment. When other industries were making huge prof
us, the wheat farmers were denied this privilege. They could
(theid^btThJngover^DiT^uTth^ 18 * Priced wheat
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( me same administration that urged farmers to raise more
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wheat during the war should Jiave warned them of rk
of continued production after the war. At least it ^ ' 5
given them warning of the deflation program contemr.lat
By the course it pursued, the Democratic administra
farmers into debt during the war and then pinched the **
No one can blame the farmers for trying to ra'se ttk"
since that time, for every farmer has been trying t 0 ge , . r *
to pay off his debt, and he naturally figured tha f the mo 6?
he raised the more money he would have.
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lion in 1920. W^ile those plans were hinted
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ceedings, they were not brought to the atU-n
such a way as to make an impression upon their r
The present administration has enacted
sentatives of farm organizations agreed upoi
wheat growers. The previous administration
ister the wheat guarantee law, in accordance
congress.
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MR. HIRAM JOHNSON LEAVES NO U HO I
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But there was nowhere heard an echo
The personally selected presidential candi
Albrt D. Lasker (the Jewish advertising agei ( > ■
doing his best to live up to the advertising ag(
a jj ve political tour should be, but is palpably U
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Even if Lasker should rally the whole \ uv - r of the
ican Jewish committee to Mr. Johnson (or th; art of '* In
Mr. Barney Baruch fails to rally to Mr. McAdoo) there wô K r
be something lacking in appeal to the American mind. A* iPr 1 -
man" as Mr. Johnson delights to describe himself, he is j u |î v v
poor company. Poor men should avoid as they would
pestilence the favors of wealthy men who seldom investi sw
expectation of return.
The 0 f f ran k ness 0 f Mr. Johnson was no where mil"*
parent than in his Michigan address. Michigan is the biH™
Mr. Newberry whose election to the United States senÄl *
contested. Senator Johnson was not present when the J
taken and was charged the length and breadth of the
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with that handicap, and in his speech referred to the N>
matter numerous times, always linking it with the regret 1
had "missed the train.
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;how he would have voted had the train arrived, and he
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After tbat » of course, Michigan promptly returned Mr. Jov
the bmbo from which his appearance had momentarily
As "the opposition" Mr. Johnson is pitiably ineffect
being "agin the government" is not a certificate of
American eyes.
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And merely being "for" something that
votes giving people money out of the treasury is not
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as statesmanly vision. This is as far as Mr. Johnson goes.
If Mr Johnson would take the train to Washington
, the job to which the people of his state elected him. he
aP that is required of him now.
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