| Show NO 1 iNE ONE IN IE MO E CLOSEt CLOSELY Y ASSOCIATED I DIG BIG MEN THAt THA NED LER I I II No Mystery About Publisher Who Vho Is Figuring So Prominently in Teapot Dome Probe News I By I nO T LL L 1 Ight 1924 1 b by b- The Consoli Consolidated dated PI Picas ess 1 WASHINGTON Match Maich alch 1 To ToI the he cou couty at nt hr Ire Neil Ned McLean J a as been one ot of the fig fig- fig figI Ile I lOlU nie of ol Ve Hal nd nd a W ash I has known Tn but little of the person person- person 1 person I lit of oC the th oung mia although e Hn et pho p furs r-furs who ho halo o novel seen lie he oun oun 1 publisher ind n who ne r rI I to meet him hat have hae e a efer eCer to him glibly as ns Ned Mc 1 Mc McLean C- C Clean Lean j Mi 11 McLean IcLean Is not the tho th t type tip pe of I Inan nan who bo ho makes friends qUICklY I Ilie lie i is different In i t II wai a but at- at at to co cover er it up This TIns dif dlf- dif r ame to a 0 a large ho h ts made to o avoid 1 old appear I Ins appear 11 ie 1 e the tho senate committee I Ned McLean h his ts IS a all sos sus- us-pl us lou disposition He lie Inherited that trait his father f John 1 in n at one time tho the mater Jou I of o the tho middle west est The fhe I otIn onn II 1 nn an Is Iq I loath to t ti oat any any- anyone anyone any anyone I bIde 11 Is ho has ha sur-I sur one I c why shy hy our our- himself with 1151 and ard wh why tho telo-I telo tote tote- telo grams rams made public In the th oil hear 1 sho shon shott that he lie hid had various arlous em- em plo em-plo plo 1 10 es U died died Ine Ing up foi fOl oi him lIld I II on e each ch others other's toes Also i It c the dual codes I ot of Ill I lav ain in Ole oc 1 cally confidential I 01 assistant In his busl- busl nesi busi-nesi fless ill Mi TiLean IcLean n has half a 0 dozen I 1 IG G r roi n G oi I which recalled the tho ed McLean of ot gay cay oun bache- bache bachelot loi 10 lot da das laH when h he 0 owned ned tho the first firstI I 1 rench I idem car a ar r ever oer bi ought to tollie the citi lit v a a as somewhat surprIsed hen It was as as tit st noised about that auen en U G Hal Haiding ding I for pi na as red Ned s i and Lest best est friend I T IS not conscious of II tI e 1 fi gi eat et change chance which had hod como come ovel the boy io had bad Inherited th the Ill of of dollars and EvelynS ose e to lovely 10 ely Evelyn elyn Thomast Thomasp S aish daughter of the tho late l te Thomas p l Walsh aish ot o Dens Den Denier er hid hd united t o 0 ogi gi 1 cat fortune fortun Mr McLean s friendship with th Mr Ir flaming Lean began bee n loon oon after the tho to ilent to be came canto to W liS as asA a f om Ohio Ml Mi Harding had n John R McLean cLean as lis a 0 f flow aMow Pow low Ohio publisher Ho no found 11 McLean a most companion companion- companionable able Cello fellow Mr Mrs Hal Haiding dInG McLean l captivated by Sirs Mrs Mc- Mc Mc Lean The Tir two omen omen became e cn en closel cloeL CI ti fi lends than the tho sena Bena- sena- sena tor toi senator end and ioune oung McLean cLean if It such uch a athing athine thing ere ere possible I ir ILI r CHARMING cG the ble had spent man many happy afternoons and evenings evening at al hll at tho the home hom homon on road roat her In iii Wa ington worth Lena wa wa thele too Mr Mrs McLean i Is one on of or the most rno t vivacious ot of ses and nd al o ono of It tho most of or nt newspaper paper readers She Sho o is a oman noman and often has Ioas held heM her own In a 8 dl rf of Intel national and domestic at- at lah s with the th best bt mInds i In the senate Senator Lodge In the th old I I da daI s wa w s a constant at nt the McLean home horn So when it came to pass that Senator ISo HardIng was to be the th ne- ne Ile I nominee for tor or president It as easy to see e the tho social nodal nn ant and poll poli I political prestige that waa ira to come corn to the MeLeane in the th event v nt of ot election Th The nominating campaIgns ot of I however ho brought many m cm- I cm mens m n to tD Mr McLean TIO I Enquirer which Young IcLean an now controlled con had at- at atI i al-i I ead eady been bee the th great Ere t organ or an of Ohio Yet Tet from the th purely I personal point o of lev young Toun Mc- Mc McLean McLean Mc-L Mc Lean n Vante Mr nomi- nomi i I 1 and elected Being B ct ot I a SL de- de d turn of mind ho hoever lio ever he ll never n v r thought Mr I I had h 4 d a chine chance In the tho con- con enton until the th thiu thing thing- was wae w put oel 0 On eiOn StOn ei St the th 14 Id Ned K ed a Hc- Hc 1 f fI I I can was Interested and nfl It H ItI I t x A ac It if t fate to a-to had decreed that n Is i Hei cite iron election In ue the the th McL cL n ns wt e to be b Jos I Ito to the top of ot things at the thc WhiteHouse House Inti- Inti Intimate Inti Intimate A Mitchell Palmer vas liS an mate CI lend of or McLean and anti had Gone done man ois fa foi fot Co him WIT WIT- Wil William 11 liam ham Gibbs McAdoo as i on 01 equally intimate 1 nith Ith the oung publisher and had acted as ns and cr In set te cial eLaI mat mat- matters matters Go Vox ox of Ohio was as wasa wasa a some hat more distant ft hut was gl admired b bi Neu Nea Joe 1 was as one of ot his clos closer er friends d ed S called him hIr The Harp Admirl Ciry Cuy ny son riy-son son aon and his Ius wife Mita el eie e CI visitors at nt or at the tho Mc- Mc McLean Sic Lean lc- lc Lean country estate at lit g- g Hn flab Baker at that time director of tho mint was as McLean ito I Bernard M came to know Inow and to like Ned McLean IcLean eO- eO et ely tren well They spent many I e lIal UC is a aman aman aman man who vho selects his friends an I ith cat cal caie Ct c So o o It cin II hn I that th Xe Ned McLean wa wab dp de el dp ci- ci opine In aay a way ay ay that thai Washington I el-I at large novel Ime knew and was as nun inin In circles which the most antous I er would o e Next came caine tho election of f It 19 1020 and the thc joy It brou ht to the Mc- Mc McLean Leans Lean was as unbounded They un- un lin joined th tor or their outing to Teas Tes Mr 1 Mrs Mc- Mc rc-L rc I Lian an later accompanied Harding to New J 1011 and her Ier to select hei het he trous trousseau eau Ne Ned Nea was as made mado ch of the tha inaugural committee an and when hen Mr Ir Hal H called oft off the the g 0 a 1 grett ball t I their to town ton hou house housa n on I street COME 1 The Calkin came to the th i I ball People eio n etc eo not attention to the lico Ico presidential in those lays clays The Th Mc- Mc Loans Leans Lean Mc-Lean did the could riot not get tet away on ay from tho the White House I Iery ery cry often octen so the be- be beI became camo be-camo I came caine the tha constant g cuc ts or of honor honorat I at No er No er a I went ent by tiMe thac they were ero not there I and moro more than often octen during the I week as ail well weli I Secretary of State Hushes and Mrs H shared With the the and Hany HallY I Daugn- Daugn erty knew the th McLeans so ell w eli they put one of their thUr homes home at his hia hi disposal he h first cime to and ho occupied It for tho better beller part of a year The rails beIng Intimates Intimate of the thi Hard Hard- Hardings Ings Inc also became Intimates of or the I McLeans When President harding died I there would be he much of sadness to the McLeans but their reia- reia to the tho nito House Houe Hou o would be e unchanged because uso they had a fuss over the Ihn others had not and had es- es es established a friendship with them second only to 10 their ther enviable posit pollion with tho the I i McLean Thus the tho i m of Ned red Mc- Mc Mc Lean Is 1 cleared No imn n mm In W ish Ington Important has been closer to Import Import- tint ant public men m n th thin thU U tu ho has boon ben for tho b last t six elx or eight ears |
