Wheeler Again

Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, ticket mate of the late Progressive candidate for President, Senator LaFollette, was last week freed of a legal charge. A Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court quashed an indictment against him.

At the time when Mr. Wheeler was hot on the heels of Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General, an indictment was brought against him for illegally accepting a fee from an oil man. The charge was tried and Wheeler was acquitted in Montana last spring.

Later, when Harlan Fiske Stone was Attorney General, another indictment was secured against Wheeler. This indictment was last week voided when Justice Bailey held it charged "no violation of the laws of the United States." Unless an appeal is taken, the Senator is out of court for good on that account.

Last week in the hour of his success Senator Wheeler reiterated his oft expressed opinion:

"From the very outset this has been nothing but a case of political persecution in retaliation for my investigation of Harry Daugherty and the 'Ohio gang' in the Department of Justice. The attempt of the Daugherty crowd to 'get' me started when I began the investigation that, by the weight of public opinion, drove Daugherty out of public life."