Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-09 | Page 4 | Scandals and Scandals

B SCANDALS AND ! SCANDALS. H B fAcTait regime will go down in histor as the' scandalous ad' B "I'listratiou. r-Therti 'have been, more sen,fula.ls during the present adiuini1 hi,n m- any other s'nt-'c "Washington entered upon m T)ic administration escaped. the odium 'of the Controller Bay H rscnndnnyrliai;tenfug"l6 ctiauge" its Avholc-Alnslcnu 'policy ," bttE this H was not donS' until the ontire country was stirred by the. disclosures H of the Onggenheim piracies in which thc-fedcral authorities Thad H ployed an, important part- ' r ' H The Ballingcr scandal-was hushed by allowing the secretary of H ' the interior to retire from the cabinet after "being "exonerated." H 1 Jhe "Wiley scandal was-quietcd by Taft yielding to the popular B ' demand for a reversal of anorder 2nade by Secretary "Wilson. L The Everglades scandal is about to fie aired. There are thou- H 6ands of purchasers of Florida's Everglade lands vho are anxious- H y awaiting the investigation to learn to what extent they were H 'niade the victims of falso reports sent out'tJy Oie agricultural de- H partment. ' H . Either stupidity holds the- reins in 1 lie White House 'or- the H President, is surrounded with a sehemingerew of plunderers