Apr, 21.
The mercury of the Democratic thermometer dropped rapidly when Harry Sinclair's acquittal was announced, for the mere mention during the past four years of the names of many prominent Repub-Vieans in connection with the Teapot, Dome oil scandal had stitaulated the hopes of the Denocrats that the Republican standard could not be Borne aloft at the Presidential eloction in November if a -Court of Tustice castigated—as they fully fanticipated—the Republican Ad~ ministration's alleged "fraud and corruption."
The charge on which Sinclair has now been acquitted was of conspiring with the then Secretary of tthe Interior, Mr. A. B. Fall, to defraud the United States Government in 1922 in connection with the lease of the Teapot Dome oil reserve, which belonged to the Government. The lease was cancelled in October, 1927, on grounds of fraud and corruption,
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