Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 8

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And this in spite of any untoward events and scandals that have broken out, directly or remotely connected with the administration of which he is now the head. It is a most striking proof of the faith and} confidence the people have in him. No differ- ence whatever else may be wrong, Calvin Cool- idge, himself, is right. His record is clean. His unimpeachable character will stand. And he can be fully trusted to captain the ship through any storm and bring it safely to port. On the other hand, and on the other side,/ where is the Democrat who commands the trust | Mr. Coolidge does, or who can muster enough | strength in delegates to secure a nomination in the New York convention? He does not exist. me The opposition may start all the political fires they choose, they will never be able to frighten Calvin Coolidge nor throw into panic the fight- ers under his banner, who mean to make him the president. What Jim Reed Says Now then, let’s permit one of their own to tell the story of their misdeeds. Let us take Senator} James A. Reed, of Missouri, as the indicting witness. He is one of the most “pizen” Demo- crats in the country. He is also a truthful man, so those who have lived neighbors to him’ for years and have had all kinds of transactions with him, say. We will just print what the sena- tor says about sqme of hia fellow Democrats, and let it go at that. Here is what he said at Peoria, Illinois, recently in a few kind remarks to some other plain and honest Democrats: s “On the heels of the war came another sin- ister development. There was an epidemic of money madness. It was discovered that great profits could be realized by pressing claims against the government. Immediately there was a flood of resignations by every sort of govern- ment employe from department clerks to cabinet officers. “They had lived upon the bounty of their coun- try. They were possessed of inside information or they had gained great influence through the public honors conferred upon them. They now sought to enrich themselves in employing that influence and knowledge against the govern- ment whose bounty they had accepted. “Accordingly, they went into the open market t6 sell that information and that influence to those who were contending against the govern- ment. Most of them disguised their transactions under the term, ‘legal services.’ They to escape detection and even now have the ef- frontery to pretend their action was ethical be cause it was performed in the capacity of at- torneys-at-law. * * * “An honorable lawyer possessing knowledge of a client’s business while employed by him as a lawyer or as an individual will never use that knowledge against his former client or employ- er. An honorable employe quitting the service of his master will not use against the master the knowledge he acquired while under his pay. Indeed, the books are full of cases where former employes have been enjoined from such a course. “ Neither will an honorable man sell the in- fluence he gained from holding office under the government to those who have controversies with the government, Nor will he sell that in- fluence in any manner so as to embarrass the government he once served. * * * “A plan is formed to despoil the United States of its oil reserves. One of the conspirators was in search ef influence and was willing to expend large sums of money to exert influence upon the public servants. “Although there are tens of thousands of law- yers of distinction and ability in the United States and hundreds of practitioners in Wash- ington. Doheny employed within a short period five cabinet or ex-cabinet officers, “I do not say all these men were corrupt. I| do not say they were not employed for their le-| gal abi “He bargained and hired former Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane at $50,000 a year. The bargain was made while Lane was in the| cabinet. He employed former Attorney General | Gregory ‘after he had left the cabinet. And an-| other great oil company hired Gregory’s former | partner..He employed former Secretary of the Interior Fall while Fall was a member of the uployed former Secretary of the Treas- Adoo shortly after he left the »inet rid $100,000 for his services in Washing e removed him from that field of enc when the Democratic administration wa ceeded by the Republican administration t} is Doheny’s own testimony, and it remains | controverted. * * * “Doheny was buying influence, not legal tal ‘ | when he said there were was Secretary of the Navy. or ignorant that Doheny was buying influen: just as he might buy machinery or a patch of oil land!” The Slipping of Millions Private oil companies were large beneficiaries of rulings by a special board under the regime of William G. McAdoo, as secretary of the trea- sury, in the Democratic administration, of which he was so large a part. Millions and more millions of dollars were wrongfully diverted from the federal treasury to the coffers of private oil companies’ through interpretations of the discovery act by a spe- cial treasury department board, constituted by ; Secretary McAdoo, all three members of which, upon their retirement, secured lucrative em- ployment with oil interests—one in New York, one in Los Angeles and one in Washington, as did the two legal advisers of the board, one in New York and one in Washington—not to men- tion Secretary McAdoo himself. While this was going on Democratic senators who are now howling about one real and a thou- sand fanciful scandals gave consent by their silence and their failure to correct the law un- der which abuses were being practiced, many times more costly to the American people than the Teapot Dome at its worst interpretation. The oil discovery clause of the revenue law was passed by a Democratic congress in 1918. This clause provided that a company which brought in producing oil property might within thirty days after the discovery set up a valu- ation upon the basis of which deductions from taxable income for depletion might be made. This was retroactive to 1913. Active in bringing about the enactment of this discovery clause was Senator Gore of Oklahoma, one of the “progressive” group in the senate. Upen his retirement he took employment as a lobbyist for oil interests as he has publicly ad- migted since the present oil investigation began. “The rulings of this board cut from $300,000,- 000 to $400,000,000 a year off the taxable income of oil companies. Oil companies were permitted to set up original Valuations and consequently allowances for depletion were so excessive that oil profits were wiped out. Many of the compan- ies became so enthusiastic that they hitched on to the original properties subsidiaries whose profits too, were wipei out by the depletion ims of the original concerns. Some suggestion of the n positions practiced is found lowances for depletion.are two and a, half per re cent to coal mines, two per cent to clay deposits, five te fourteen per cent to metal mines, allow- ance to oil properties were forty per cent of|Lem Hoskins has an orchard the total value of the deposits at watever fic titious figure they may have originally been esti- mated. A. Republican congress jn 1921 took the first step toward the correction of this situation. Depletion claims were limited in amount to the net income of the discovery properties. The next step was taken by Secretary Mellon when he submitted to congress his tax plan in which he limited claims for depletion under the discovery law to 50 per cent of the net income. In this, as in every other case where scan- dal or the suspicion of scandal has been deyel- oped, the roots of the evil lie deep buried in the last Democratic administration, since the retire- ment of which there has been an immeasurable heightening of the standards of official conduct at Washington, despite the tremendous influ- ences and precedents for evil which’ were inher- ited when the last administration weyt out of power. Senator Walsh is not to be envied in his fran- tic efforts to extricate himself from the web of deception which he has woven. Without indulg- ing in any unparliamentary language, the fol- lowing facts are set down in order that the public may judge for itself who is doing the lying. The leasing act of February, 1920, is the only act under which public oil reserves are leased. No one denies they are leased. No one can cite any other law under which they are leased. No me can cite any other excuse for the enacting of the leasing act except to provide federal con- trol and regulation of the manner in which such reserrves are leased. The federal leasing act which became a law on February 25, 1920. was amended through the medium of a rider on the naval appropriation bill so as to give the secretary of the navy com- plete control of naval oil reserves. When Sena- tor Walsh says this rider was not an emend- ment of the act of February 25, 1920, in any shape, manner or form he indulges in a pica- yunish quibble which does no credit to an intelli- gent gentleman. If Senator Walsh {s to be permitted to ad- vance seriously the argument that he is not to be counted as supporting the amendment be- cause it passed without’a roll call and a dis- senting voice, then it must be conceded that no- body supported it. If this sort of quibbling is to be admitted as honest argument, then no mea: sure which passes either branch of congress without a roll call, because no one present is against it, can be said to be supported by any- body. oy The Sin of “Too Many” Secretary Hughes gave utterance to a very popular sentiment, when he said there were too many laws. President Coolidge voiced another too many subsidy schemes in the interest of the states, going through the congressional hopper. In fact there are too many of, many things. Too many di scandals in high and low social circles; too many immigrants coming into the United States too many children for the schools to accommo- date; too many people with too many dollars, and too many with too few; too many boys in | college who ought not to be there, and too many boys not in college who ought to be there; too many automobile accidents; too many murders; too many robbe } too many men doing too many useless jobs; too many soldiers in Europe; too many Japanese in Japan; too many Hindus nd Mohammedans in India; too many high ideals that fall of realization; too many low ideals that succeed, x It is an age of “too manys” and what 4s worst of all, there are too mifuy who do not take In: terest. or care about remedying conditions, < ce | Winner. The Two-Thirds Rule By ELDEN SMALL. _| Another case of selfishness i} | vorces; too many cases in the courts; too many | It is generally recognized that the “What a spectacle it is that the shrewdness! De™ocratic party ts the only one ubLeation offices: Tribune Building. / ang cunning of Doheny made it possible to go °f the sreater organizations to de- thus out in search of influence and apparentiy|™#nd @ two-thirds majority for any find cabinet officers and ex-cabinet officers who candidate for its presidential nomi. |took his money without a qualm of conscience |®&t!on before he can be declared ths A mere majority of the delegate votes in the convention is not sufficient. Each campaign year there is criticism of this rule, but ‘t is retained. The latest victim was the late Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, who received a majority of the delegate votes in the Baltimore convention for some ballots but could not muster the two-thirds and was de- feated in the end by Woodrow Wil- son. ee It {s not so generally known that the two-thirds rule was first forced upon the Democratic convention of 1836 by the supporters of President Martin Van Buren. In the 1840 having compelled it in the two pre- ceding conventions for his benefit, could not defeat it, although it cost him his fomination. eee He retired then from politics for eight years, when he emerged to engineer a bolt from the jonal convention. on the part of his New York followers, and accepted a third party nomination with the idea of securing revenge on the men who had beaten him out of the 1844 Democratic honors. He received eight delegate votes. The two-thirds rule has existed since. (Copyright.) After every inauguration of a new President somebody arises in this country to ask: “What should we do with our ex-presidents?” It is variously proposed that w@ give them life jobs as advisory members of the senate or otherwise take ad vantage of their experience and knowledge of conditions. see President John Quincy Adams, who was defeated for a second term, had a notable official career before he entered the White House, and after his four years there continued as a powerful factor tn national af- fairs as a member of congress. He had only two years of private life after relinquishing the presidency when he was sent back to the house, and he remained there until his death, 18 years later. cee John Tyler, whose ambition for a Selfishness The stingiest man I ever saw Is Obadiah Joshua Perks, He used to stop the clock at night To keep from wearing out the works. ' Is Jeremiah Heath e takes his food in capsules So he can save his teeth. And they say the stingy brute Keeps all his pickers whistling So they can’t eat the fruit. T had a Bad scare The other day. I was, down At the Tailor’s And I felt Something Running up the Leg of my ‘Trousers. With a Startled cry I looked to see What it was, and Found the Sewing Machine Going up the Seam, Wellwed—"You'll be sorry some day that you didn't marry.” Oldbach—"Well, I'd rather not be married and sorry, than be married and sorry, “Oh, don’t troub! to see me to Kind Words From the Chicago headquarters of the Kiwanis the following has been received from Charles Rey- nolds, head of the department of publicity and education: Editor Tribune:—Thanks for your kindly mention of Kiwanis in your paper from time to time. Our or- ganization appreciates your valu- able cooperation in helping to make Kiwanis effective. Kiwants {s a representative influ ence, organized for the advance- ment of public welfare in its. many phases, for the stimulation of mor- als, charities, health, better citizen ship, civic improvement and obedi- ence to law and all the tenets of better living. A good newspaper ts also an influ: ence for these objectives. Working together, the joint influence cannot help but result in accomplishment. We hope that Kiwanis will always continue to have your cooperation. Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE | After It Is Over second term as president was not realized, retired to private life until the Clyil war was imminent. Then he emerged to join the southern confedéracy, was made a member of the Confederate congress, and in that_position fought the government he had-once headed, until the day of his death. President Andrew Johnson, all but tmpeached while in the White House and unsuccessful tn securing the nomination for a second term, went home to Tennessee and was elected to the United States senate, | where he had won high place before | reaching the presidency. Shortly, after the beginning of his term,| however, he died. eee President Rosevelt's unsuccessful campaign for a third term, and President Taft's appointment as chief justice are well recalled. the door," guest. j “No’ trouble at all, answered the! genial but somewhat tactless host-| ess, “It's a pleasure.” | smiled the departing | | “You don't love me any more. You gave all of thise cigars I gave you for Christmas to the janitor.” “That's all right, my dear, he'll bring them back soon.” ‘ His Speed “My hired man fe'l off the fence in the meadow about five minutes ago.” “Has he hit the ground yet?” Uucle Hook Says: “Ev'ry man ought ter work hard and save enough money t’ take a ean full in two biscuits, Sa. 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