INTERESTS OUT TO DEFEAT SEN. WALSH OF MONT.
INTERESTS OUT TO DEFEAT SEN. WALSH OF MONT. Oil Prosecutor Faces Bitter Fight as Huge Fund Is Sent Into State DOHENY, SINCLAIR BACK OF GALEN Walsh Was Investigator in Aluminum,...
...His activities against the big business crowd in recent years have earned him the reputation of one of the leading liberals in the Senate, and it is these same representatives of the money power against whom he has fought who are now seeking to defeat him at the polls in the November election...
...DECLARE MOONEY, BILLINGS INNOCENT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—"We reiterate our firm belief in the innocence of Mooney and Billings," declares a resolution of the California State Federation of Labor, "and strongly urge the Governor of California to reopen the case and use every means at his disposal to have all the discredited witnesses brought before competent authorities so that the flimsy excuses for the continued incarceration of these innocent men may be fully swept away...
...Senator Walsh declared that if the voters of the state directed him to vote for the repeal of the Volstead act and the submission of the Eighteenth amendment to the legislatures of the states for repeal, he would do so...
...Until 1924, when he served on the Senate committee on public lands that investigated the oil scandals, he was regarded as a Conservative...
...Senator Walsh is 71 years old and has been a. member of the United States Senate for the past 18 years...
...He was declared himself to be a Wet, while Senator Walsh has always supported prohibition vigorously...
...As Senator Walsh's Republican opponent there has been chosen a man very popular in Montana who is considered as the most favorable candidate the Republicans could have nominated...
...In many localities public officials and civic, charitable and fratermal organizations are cooperating with the local building trades counclls...
...Finding himself in the midst of the oil scandal investigation, however, he devoted himself assiduously to bringing out the facts...
...It was largely through his efforts that Colonel Stewart was called into court and information brought out that resulted in Stewart's being ousted as head of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana...
...Following the prosecution of the oil cases, Senator Walsh continued his fight against what he considered the malpractices of big business, and conducted investigations against the great, combinations of capital represented by the aluminum trust, headed by Andrew W. Mellon, the steel trust, and the power trust...
...His insistence that the cases be pressed had a great deal to do with sending Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire oil operator, to jail...
...Albert L. Galen...
...Several liberal Republican senators, it is probable, will aid Senator Walsh in his campaign in Montana by making speeches there during the campaign in his behalf...
...Recently, however...
...and other big oil men whose activities were curbed and exposed by Senator Walsh are reported to be planning to throw their support to the Republican candidate...
...URGE "CLEAN UP" AS JOBLESS AID SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—The "clean-up, fix-up and paint-up" campaign, sponsored by Frank C. MacDonald, general president of the Slate Building Trades Council of California, is reported to be achieving pipe!leal results in providing employment for the unemployed...
...Galen is a justice of the state Supreme Court and very well known throughout the state...
...Harry F. Sinclair, Edward L. Doheny...
...Senator Walsh, however, is known to have entered into his campaign knowing the stiffness of the fight that will be waged against his candidacy and determined to carry on his campaign without a let up until election day in November...
...Oil Prosecutor Faces Bitter Fight as Huge Fund Is Sent Into State DOHENY, SINCLAIR BACK OF GALEN Walsh Was Investigator in Aluminum, Steel and Power Quizzes (Special To The Progressive) BUTTE, Mont.—Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana began his campaign for re-election this week against what is probably the greatest array of big business interests and wealth that has ever opposed any candidate for public office in Montana...
...It was largely through his efforts that the real situation surrounding the transfer of the oil lands was revealed, and even after the cases were in the hands of Federal prosecutors, Senator Walsh continued his interest in them...
...According to recent reports, money to prevent his re-election will be poured into the state by the big industrial and financial interests against whom Senator Walsh has been an active opponent since the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals In 1924...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
