Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23
7wo Months Suspension OF Congress
Not To Interfere With impeachment
Proceedings Against Attorney General
BY j. BART CAMPBELL,
|. N. S. Staff Corresnnndant


Washington, Sept 23.-Attornev
General Daugherty will be put on
the rack in the November session
OF Congress as a national officer
seldom has been before, his oppo.
nents declared today as Congress
melted away for a two months rest.
The Attorney General will be con.
fronted on three fronts as soon as
Congress assemblies "a through
the Impeachment proceedings
brought by Representative Keller
Republican, of Minnesota; ca a
proposed investigation of his allee-
ed failure to prosecute war frauds
sponsored by Representative Wood
ruff, Republican. of Michigan; and
(3) the labor and liberal element
in Congress will seek his scalp for
the famous Chicago injunction
against the rail strikers.
Senator Robert w. LaFollette. Re-
publican, of Wisconsin, assured to-
day that the campaign against
Daugherty will mot" be allowed to
die during the two months RECESS
of Congress.
Not Through With Daugherty.
when Attorney General Daugher-
ty secured an injunction from Judge
Wilkerson to prevent working men
from exercising their constitutional
rights Of peaceful assemblage, free
dom of speech and lawful use of
their property, he used his high
position and the great powers of a
free government to illegally Cypress
American citizens" said Senator La.
Toilette. I'VE are not through with
Mr.. Daugherty,' the fiery Wisconsin
Senator added as he paused momen-
tarlly in his preparations to catch
the next train back home" where
he is to renew his fight for the cleo.
ton in November of the entire La
Toilette ticket.
Lot To Answer For
when Congress re-convenas, Mr..
Daugherty will have whole lot to
answer for His failure to prosecute
the war graft cases is but one o.
many things he will he called upon
to explain. | do not care to dis.
cuss the impeachment proceed
ings
"There can be little respect for
the department of justice until it
shall respect the constitution and
the laws of the land Within the
memory Of this generation there
has been degeneration Ct the de.
partment Federal courts and dis.
trict attorneys have become in many
Instances engines of oppression for
the poor, DENYING them their consti-
tutioral rights while at the same
time they have aided and abetted
criminal practices in robbing the
people OF their natural wealth and
PRIVILEGES.
Sherman Act Dead Letter.
THE Sherman Act, perfectly de
signed to prevent conspiracies in re-
Btraint of trade, has been flouted by
the department until it is a dead
letter. The bill of rights of our con-
stitution is wilfully violated by dis
trict attorneys and judges sworn by
solemn oath to uphold it.
What has become Of the lawyers
Of the old days who boldly grapple
with criminal wealth and denounce
It? The department needs men Of
this type.
Injunction Disgrace.
The last disgrace of this once
great department came only recent.
iy when Attorney General Daugh,
erty secured from a plant federal
judge a writ of Injunction in open
violation of the federal constitution
md Acts of Congress.
Besides being 4 violation of the
federal constitution the injunction
granted is clearly a violation of the
Clayton Act which Mr. Daugherty
sought to evade by bringing his az.
ton in the name Of the United
States.
"This was a clever ruse demean.
ing to his great office and the hon
orahle profession to which he be-
longs. He is sworn to uphold the
federal law and the spirit of the
law is its life The scriptures say,
THE Spirit giveth the life, but the
latter killeth'. Observing the letter
pf tho law. he evades its spirit and
pffends against justice"