The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-24
DA YTON CHARGES
ARE LIKE SPEER'S
In Many Respects Except as to
Alleged Conspiracy and His
Sons Figuratiye Part.
(From Charles Brooks Smith.


WASHINGTON, June 24.-There
is a striking similarity in the charges
in the Impeachment case against
Judge A. G. Dayton, of West Virginia
which is in its initial stages, and that
of Judge Speer, Of Georgia, upon
which subcommittee of the House
judiciary committee has just rendered
a report-two of them, in fact, as
there is a minority report. Both re-
ports unite in declaring to the whole
committee that there are not sufficient
grounds upon which to recommend
Impeachment.
In these reports, and the action of
the whole committee on them which
they foreshadow, those who are in
touch with the Speer case as well as
the Dayton case, are predicting today
that nothing will come of the charges
against Judge Dayton. They freely
predict, too, that the Dayton case viii
not get as far as the Speer case; that
1t will end just where 1t is-in com
mittee; that the Nicely resolution au-
thorizing the House judiciary commit
tee to Investigate Judge Dayton will
not be favorably reported by that
committee to the House. So much
for prophesy. --.--- -
AT many points the Dayton and
Speer charges converge and run in
unique paralellism, and at many other
points they differ widely. There is
nothing unusual about the latter. In
the Dayton case there is a son who
figures in stellar role in the charges
while In the Speer case 1t is a son-in-
law. There are the same charges of
corporate and court favoritism and
favorites, extravaganza in the use of
the courts expense money, the DOS
session of the same irascible, preju-
dicial, and "tyranneous" tempera-
ment, identical charges as to handling
jurors, to the assistance of a son and
son-tn-law in the conduct of cases,
and for long distance the accusa-
lions in both cases traverse the same
channel.
Where they differ is there is not a
breath against the personal. habits OF
Judge Dayton, nor are the adjectiyes
applied to- his conduct con the bench
by his prosecutors anywhere near az
sensational, yigorousFand lurid a.
those used descriptive OF his Georgia
colleague. AS to the origin of the
case against each there is a vide var.
lance. The bar went after. Judge
Speer, and not the bartenders after
Judge Dayton as he alleges but the
United Mine Workers Association
The latter is the bottom, top and
sides Of the prosecution OF the West
Virginia jurist, and the powder be.
MIND their guns is plenthoric and
bullying treasury. The bar of West
Virginia is with Judge Dayton. The
local bar associations of his district
have come to the front <handsomaIv
for him in his trouble.
The most serious charges against
Judge Dayton in the opinion Of the
disinterested are those which alleged
how he "conspired" to GUST his prede-
cessor and create a place for himself
and 20 the one which brings into the
case his son, Arthur. The interested
Mine Workers Union probably de.
murs as to this statement, and will
hold that the charges which concern
Judge Dayton's attitude toward ani
; handling of labor cases are Of ths
greatest Importance. AS to the con.
spiracy charge, there is the letter q,
eH-President Roosevelt, who brought
ABOUT Jackson's resignation and who
appointed Dayton to refute that n
is not likely that the prosecution car
overcome the evidence of q. man who
was Tor seven years president Of the
united States, the DISTINGUISHED ones
aver. AS to the Arthur Dayton phases
OF the case, there are a numb of AZ.
fidaYits filed by Judge DAYTON IN hscl
up his denial. $50
In fact, it is the array of affidayits
that Judge Dayton has filed In his
original and supplemental answers
packing up in each and every denial
OF each and every specific charge
made against him, which is responsi.
pie Tor the rapid growth of sentiment
here that, up till this stage, his pros.
ecutors have failed to make out a
strong case against him. There ara
in sight no afidayits acc 16lnnn ms
the charges except they are sworn and
subscribed to by A. NJ. Belcher and s.
D. montgomery of ths United S;,na
Workers. They say that afidayits
VIII be forthcoming-that thew bave
q number Of them to substantiate
their charges, but the fact is that
none such have been offered thus far,
Viewing the Dayton case in he
light Of the Speer case, the present
opinion is, held by those wha are n
no way interested, that Judge Day.
ton has little to fear from the out
come-and that the outcome viii moi
be long in putting in an appearances.
HIS friends-and they are Of course,
tnterested-are feeling more than
ever sanguine Of his complete yindi-
cation, viewing 1t In the same Iirbt
The House judiciary COMMITTEES mas
taken NO consideration Of the Dayton
case. 1t has set no date upon which
to consider it Representative Nee1y
Is not here, and nothing win be done
until he gets back. $3.50