Show WHEELER SCOURGE OF corruption vice presidential candidate drove daugherty from office by JOHN GUNN washington D C the arhe dominant quality of senator burton kendall wheeler Is ills magnificent courage blended with personal person til amiability atu and guided and directed by a brain of alert intelligence outside of montana Mon tann the public knows little ot of the story of wheelers 42 years of struggle and achievement wheeler was born at ati hudson ludson mass a small new england village on fell nary 27 ills father was the village shoemaker nia his mother traced her lineage back through brough three centuries of distinguished new anglani ancestry wheelers forbears in fact were on american soil soft before the lowin low IN who speak only to cabets find and the cabets who spent speak only to god od had bad made massachusetts the scene of their aristocratic and c excle clu sive activities young wheeler spent no time nd miring his family tree lie was ambitious and energetic and early sn out to earn his own way A ay in the file world the youngest of 0 ten children cli ildren lie he pieced out the meager far family illy invonne by cultivating a strawberry patch ond selling his produce n dt t hudson lie he peddled pop earn corn and peanuts at baseball bare games sold newspapers anti and managed to support himself by other odd jobs while he finished high school goes west to study ile he determined to go west to study for the law ile he went to michigan n and entered the law school at ann an albor i tie he had less than 10 in his pocket when ho he enrolled for the school year yat and it was necessary for him to wait on students tables and do stenographic work in order to pay his tuition and his living expenses wheeler entered a law office at i butte mont and after a few years his two fisted fighting ability won lihn li m a big practice in 1910 lie he entered politics as a candidate for the legislature and was elected thomas J walsh then one of the leading lawyers of montana was a candidate tor for the united states senate at that session of the legislature wheeler led the fight for walsh through the tense days of that session he stood up manfully giving blow for blow and went down fighting when the copper interests finally triumphed later he be helped in the campaign for the adoption of a constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of united states senators in montana and lind had the satisfaction of 0 seeing walsh elected by a direct vote of the people in 1912 in 1020 lie he won the democratic nomination for governor every republican and democrat newspaper and most of the weeklies opposed him nevertheless in the november election lie he ran votes ahead of governor cox the head of the democratic ticket chosen senator by pro progressives Progress res ives in 1022 1922 the progressives Progress ives or of montana called upon him to become a candidate for the united states senate early in the file session wheeler prepared a resolution providing for an investigation vesti gation of the department of justice jusa ile he received little ene encouragement a ii ent from the members of his own party but the progressive republicans gave him their active support and a committee to conduct the inquiry was 1 I as elected from the senate floor on motion of senator lafollette the story of wheelers conduct of this case against corruption and malfeasance in the be department of justice Is already well known to the public single handed lie he carried on his big fight pursued every step of the way by spy j ing agents detailed by daugherty and burna to shadow him and to get something on him 1 I nm am a democrat but not n wall street democrat in these words voicing v the sentiments of the res of his own party senator K wheeler accepted indorsement endorsement Indor as a card candidate bdate for ice fee president on the independent progressive ticket |