Word: wheelerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting item in the account of Ontario's return to beer concerns Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, the general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. In the capacity of unofficial observer, Mr. Wheeler followed the hejira across the river from Detroit to Windsor, and behind the protective coloration of an unopened bottle, examined the drinkers narrowly to discover signs of incipient intoxication...
...whole thing is a joke," said Mr. Wheeler, when he got back to Buffalo; and he went on to state that although he saw no one "staggering drunk", several "were a little wobbly." As if this slur on the quality of Ontario's four per cent beer were not enough, he even characterized it as "slops...
...Department of Justice has changed hands since the days of Doheny and Fall. The writer has referred to the "intense activity" of the Wheeler prosecution as compared with the laxity shown in the Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny trials. The people who were incompetent in these latter cases were not the people who brought about the indictment of Senator Wheeler in Washington. The writer also forgets that the "persecution" of Wheeler showed no laxity in prosecuting Senator Cameron, the officials of the Atlanta Penitentiary, and rum-corrupted attorneys. He is not expected to know of these incidents; the persons prosecuted were...
...from being closed the persecution of Senator Wheeler has reached a third stage more serious perhaps than either of the two that have gone before. A new indictment technically based on different grounds has been brought against the Senator, so that he must again face trial, not in Great Falls among his neighbors and constituents, but in Washington, 2500 miles away from the scene of his alleged crimes. There is every reason to believe that the perjured testimony which distinguished the last trial will again be offered by the prosecution, but in the new trial it will be received...
...intense activity of the Department of Justice in the Wheeler case is all the more unnatural when placed beside its former record in the prosecutions of Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny. In these instances such was the incompetence of the government that no indictment was framed which could hold water, and men whom the whole nation believed guilty went scot-free. Today the man who was responsible for the discovery of their guilt is pursued with ruthless energy. If this persecution is successful Senator Wheeler's political career will be forever ruined. Whatever its outcome, his financial resources are certain...