Show SCANDAL OVER TEAPOT DOME TaWs administration was ILS de destroyed by the Ballinger affair which involved the control ot of Alas Alas- Alaska ka a timber Umber and coal by the helms cn helms The present administration is threatened by the disclosures In Inthe Inthe lathe the Teapot Dome oil lease In Wyoming The Coolidge administration was In no way responsible for lor the Wyoming oil lease but the party part Is 18 to be accused and so the scandal which is 15 developing will taU tall on the tho entire party and ami indirectly have Its bearing on President Coolidge s as- as aspirations as aspirations to 10 be elected to the presidency presidency dency When the Teapot Dome lease I was first proposed there was a aI I publIc dIscussion as to the advIsability ot of o allowing Ing private companies under lease to extract the oil It was contended that It if this method was not pursued nearby nearbY near- near nearby by operators would t tap the oil bodies and drain the naval navai rescue el and a ad the go government would profit nothing But the open charge now is made that thal there was tas collusion That Al- Al Albert Albert Al Albert bert C D Fall Pall former secretary secret ot of the Interior Edmond Denby sec eec secretary ot of the navy Theodore Theodoro Roose Roos e eielt elt assistant secretary of o the treasury Harry Daughterly Daug Be ue De general were close to Harry r Sinclair of o the Sinclair Oil corn com compan pan paui which obtained the lease antI and bad had a Intel cst in the deal Senator Caraway Caroway ot of o Arkansas makes the open accusation lion that Fail lall sold out his big country countr and one rumor has It 11 that Fall ed 00 foi authorizing the lease Our public public men meu in V ashington must be less capable of than la Is a city commissioner In Utah lt It they y arc are purchasable and weak In 11 the face of at temptation as represented seated Until more proof Is presented the American people should with Ith withhold judgment It Is a wrong at al attitude to lose confidence In our men the moment suspicion Is directed at The Standard Examiner ne neer ne er has been een i IL supporter of ot Albert B FaU all having looked upon him as aa an extremist In his bis talks on Mexico and red ed him as a man maa of o deep preJudices but that does docs not rob robIs robUs tie Is ot of o a desire to give him a fair earlD earin he Is la condemned In Inthe inthe Inthe the Teapot Dome affair Too TOD man loan men inca of or fine reputation are besmirched If It they all aU are America Is 10 due for lor the political surprise and shock hock In its history 00 00 |