Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-31
HARDY N. DAUGHERTY
OF OHIO, WILL Be
Acknowledgement
Continued from Page onc)

leading morning paper and the lead
ing evening paper OF your home city.
In a way, regardless of the merits OF
the fight as "A whole. or of particular
episodes in the fight you can't help
odmiring the boldness and intrepidity
of a man who will keep up a tight year
after year under such circumstance.
These papers have always made tho
most of anything that could be said OF
Daugherty, and they probably account
for "A good deal of the odium that
Daugherty has in his homa state. But
you can't say that without also saying
at the same time, that. discountinE all
this part of 1t. the fact remains that
DauGherty's career does not fit him for
Attorney General and that the ap-
pointmcnt. II made, will justify the
prot which undoubtedly viii arise.
Dausncrty Is "a stand-pat old guard.
politician of tho old school, of the old
est living school, in fact. OF a school
that is out OF date and ought to be
kept buried. He was born in Ohio and
went to the legislature in his late
twcntles. 1t is OF no use now TO go
into tho uproar and the legislative in
veStigation that attended Daugherty IS
vote for Sherman as against Foraker
on that occasion. altho undoubtedly
that old tale, as well as other more
recent investigation in which Daugh-
crty has figured, would be dug up II
he werc made attorney general
Daugherty was oXoncratod on that oc-
casion; but ho has never since beeu
able to get an elective office in Ohio. al
tho he has run for governor. for senator
and for other offices. His pcrsistency
in seeking office gives the impression
of an uneasy. restless seeking after
tustifca tion. maybe he ought to have
Justification. 1T is hard to tell. You
can't know the merit of the many
charges that have been made against
him without painstaking weighing OF
evidence. 1t is believed that much of
his motive for wanting a cabinet post
now 10 the desire for justifics tion and
rehabilitation. As one of his enemies
puts II, Harry wants a gold plating 10
cover the mud spots"
1t doesn't matter much how wei
deserved or ill-deseryed those mud
spots are. nor to what extent they arc
the necessary incidents of the fierce
fighting and biting and Eouging that
constitutes Ohio politics. in no event
should so exalted an office as attorney
general be given to any man for any
such personal reason as this, nor N
satisfaction OF such political obliEa
ton al Harding may feel ho owes
/, Daueherty.
All the talk about Daugherty boinE
the Mark Hanna OF the Harding ad.
| ministration or the Colonel House OF
| it, is sheer nonsense. DauEherty Is ol
the force and weight OF Hanna MOI
tho scholarship and disinterestednes,
OF House. And Daugherty's relation tc
| Harding ia OF no such character az
! this sort of talk implies.
Harding may feel that certain PRINT
| two docencies in human relations for
| bid him to ignore man who has spen
a full year of his time working to max,
! Harding president. He may shrinl
| from being called an migrate. not mere
| ly by party workers hut by the publ,
| at large. And there may be more thar
! the reformers would coucede in thl.
theory that the public expects in it!
| leaders such human Qualities as graft
| tude and loyalty. But gratitude anC
| loyalty can't make square pegs fit int,
! round holes. The attorney Eencralshil
is very great office. No man ehoult
be put into it who is not big enougl
and unimpeachable enough in reputl
ton to be made a justice of tho su