Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-01-30 | Page 4 | Naming of the Special Counsel

NAMING OF or THE SPECIAL COUNSEL COUNSEL An Aa effort erfort to reflect on President Coolidge and dra draw him deeply Into the Teapot Dome scandal Is beIng made not by Democrats Democrat alone but by men of the O of ot Senator Hi il Hiram ram Johnson JOhnon who are asking I Iram Iram hether hether Mr Coolidge M as g presiding I officer of the senate when madea made a aware ware did not fall tall to do his hIe full tull part In bringing the offenders toan to an au accounting on his own Initia Initiative tin five President coolidge did as other men have done under similar cir clr circumstances He expressed confidence denee dence In his official family and was not the first to condemn He roan man soan- soan manifested confidence until proof was Wl presented In naming special counsel to prosecute the governments government's case STowing growing out of ot the naval oil In Inquiry and selecting men of the hIgh standing of Silas H awn Su-awn former president of o the Illinois Bar assocIation and Thomas W Greg ors Greg or attorney general In la the Wilson cabinet one Ii d a Republican and the theother theother other a Democrat President Cool Cool- Coolidge Cool idge has made male clear ho he desires desire a vigorous prosecution and the expos Ing log Ing of ot every gull guilt I man Dlan manTo manTo To hold the president as having havinga a to shield the b tra ers or of our country would be to government