The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-25
McNab Statement.


the work of organizing the immigra-
ton bureau.
McNab Statement.
San Francisco, June 25.-Mr. Nc
Nab gave out a formal statement, as
follows:
THE president has accepted my
resignation and the incident is closed.
Even the eminent responsibility of
! the president and his fulsome but
| necessary certificate OF character to
| his attorney general cannot change
the facts. The attorney general states
! that his reasons for continuing the
/ Caminetti-Digg case was that the
secretary of labor desired the pres
ence of Mr.. Caminetti the father of
! one of the defendants. Then why did
he insist upon continuing the case
| against the defendant Diggs, which
had absolutely nothing to do with
the case of Caminetti, who was sep
arately indicted? Why was it neces
sary for Mr.. Caminetti to be present
at the trial in San Francisco, when
he was not a witness and when his
son was represented by seven emf
nent members of the California bar,
one of whom has since been indicted
for conspiracy to suborn perjury in
the same case to save his client?
Feared Conviction.
The excuse given for the continu
ance of the trial of the Western Fuel
defendants is that the attorney gen.
eral, who had a secret and private
conference with these defendants and
their attorney, was fearful that they
might be convicted and that possibly
they might be innocent. If they were
innocent, they should have insisted
upon being tried. If the attorney gen.
eral can thus declare men innocent in
spite of overwhelming evidence sub
mitted to two grand juries. he can as
easily declare men guilty against
whom there is no evidence.
McReynolds a Court"
IF the attorney general is to be
constituted court for the trial OF
amended the better If rich and in
f1uential defendants with powerful poll
teal influence can gain access to the
ear of the attorney general and have
their cases throttled and justice choked
then it is time that the American peo-
pie should know 1t.
THE attorney general had before
him my repeated warnings that politi-
cal corruption was at work. that sub
ordination of perjury had been prac-
tced and that if the Caminetti-DfggS
asses were continued the evidence
would be destroyed and that the power
of the government to convict would
have disappeared. He was Informed
that this office would be directly
charged with corruption if the cases
were postponed. With absolute indif-
ference to the rights of this office and
the honor of the department of jus
tice, he continued the cases until
autumn.
The president announces that the
department will be rushed in hot
footed haste to try these cases
Why Change Policy?
WHY is it necessary to hasten now
when it was unnecessary to make haste
before? If it was right in May to tell
me to proceed it is wrong in June to
tell me tostop. If it was right in June
to tell me to stop, 1t is now wrong to
say that the cases must Immediately
proceed
To-day 1 am driven to quit this Of
flee because my self respect will not
suffer delay. Tomorrow the admins
tration will hastily proceed with the
trial because it fears 1t Will lose the
public's respect. | was ordered to post |
pone until autumn and resigned be- |
cause L would not obey the attorney
generals order to delay. Now with
furious haste and the expensive at
tendance of some special counsel, the |
administration is to rush to an early /
trial. Some special counsel is now to
be retained for princely fee to DO
what my office would have been able
to accomplish as a matter of official
duty. The mass of evidence accumu-
lated through months of toll may now
be used to force a conviction of those
guilty defendants
Corruption Charges.
THE attorney general cheerfully
ordered the continuance of these cases
in spite of the charge of corruption in
order that this office might bear the
stain. He approved all the evidence
against the two Western Fuel d1rec-
tors whom he now practically acquits
One of these wealthy defendants after
securing a continuance entered his Of
flee and the evidence Immediately be-
came insufficient.
"A Jury sat for ten days taking evil
dence which the attorney general
neither saw nor heard. yet he feared
that these defendants, while innocent,
were in imminent danger of conviction.
Three Days Change.
IF Commissioner Caminetti can be
cheerfully spared now why could he
not be spared three days ago? II there
is such feveriSh haste to now rush
to immediate trial to vindicate out
ragged justice, why was it necessary
to drive a United States attorney from
his office for Directing to corrupt an
inexcusable delay?
.sThis matter has never been one of
a personality. 1t is simply question
of principle. If my resignation from
office and the consequent rousing of
public opinion will accomplish the re-
suit of convicting these fragrant Of
tenders against the laws of the coun-
try. then I will feel that the effort has
not bean in vain.
Girls Not Worried.
Sacramento, Cal. June 25.-Secluded
in their home and awaiting summons
TO appear in San Francisco against
Maury Digs and Drew Caminetti in
dicted on white slavery charges. pretty
Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris.
high school fraternity girls, who eloped
with the young men in March, are APP
parently little concerned over the latest