, 1922-06-12
Whose Hands Are Dirty?

NoRDELL HULL, chairman of the Democratic
v national committee, was one of those who en-
Morse, released from the federal penitentiary in
1912. This is according to the records in the case
on file in the department of justice,
Mr.. James NJ. Cox, of Ohio, Democratic candidate
for president in 1920, was another who interested
himself in securing a pardon for Mr.. Morse.
Senator Tom Helm, of Alabama, who shares
honors with Senator Caraway, Senator Pat Harri-
son and Senator Tom Watson, of Georgia, in
Democratic floor leadership, was another who join
ed in the movement to have Mr.. Morse p%ardoned.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, collea-
que of Senator Caraway, is another Democrat who
Joined the movement TO have Mr.. Morse pardoned
in 1912.
Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia. conceded 10
be the spokesman in the Senate of former Presi-
dent Wilson is another Democrat who urged Presi-
dent Taft to pardon Mr.. Morse.
Representative Joseph w. b rms, of Tennessee,
ranking Democratic member of the house com.
mittee on appropriations, is another Democrat who
Joined in the movement to have Charles w. Morse
released from the federal penitentiary in 1912.
Representative Frank Clark, of Florida, rank
ing member of the house committee on public
grounds, and also of the house committee on war
claims, is another Democrat who joined in the
novement 10 have Mr.. Morse released from the fed
eral penitentiary.
Senator Lee S. Overman, of North Carolina, Sen.
ator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, and Senator
Robert l.. Owen, of Oklahoma, are three other
Democrats now in the senate who Joined in the
movement to have Mr.. Morse pardoned.
Associated with these leading Democrats in the
movement to have Mr.. Charles w. Morse released
from the federal penitentiary were John II. Bank
head, United States senator from Alabama, whose
son is now a member of the house of representa-
tiyes; Senator Money, of mississippi; Senator
Johua w. Alexander, of Missouri, afterward a
member of President Wilson's cabinet; Represen.
tatiye John G. Floyd and Ben c.. Cravens, of Ar
kansas, the state represented by Mr.. Caraway; Rep
resentatives Broussard of Louisiana; Henry d,
Clayton of Alabama; William A Cullop and John
NJ. Adair, of Indiana; S. II. Dent and Richmond p
Hobson of Alabama James T. Lloyd and William
w. Rucker, of Missouri; Ollie NJ. James and Swa
gar Shirley, of Kentucky; Martin Dies, Oscar w
Gillespie, Robert Henry, James L. Slayden, William
r. Smith and John II. Stevens, of Texas; ID. II
Mays and Stephen Sparkman, of Florida.
These are some of the more prominent Democrats
who were associated with Attorney. General Daugh
erty in the move to obtain a pardon for Charles w
Gorse. These Democratic leaders have beer
smirched with the mud which Senators Caraway, OF
Arkansas, and Tom Watson, of Georgia, have beer
singing at Attorney Gene al Daugherty during the
past few weeks. Whether or not Senators Caraway
and Watson were aware that their campaign of
v~ulgarity and downright Islander would react
against the leaders of their party and their col
leagues in the senate is not known, but whether
they were aware of it or not that is what has hap
pened. The campaign Of villification against At
torney General Daugherty has occasioned great dis
sension in the ranks of the Democratic organiza-
ton.
The fact that this campaign did not deter Attor
ney Gecnral Daugherty from gazing ahead with his
plans to prosecute war ~grafters FASTENED the col.
lapse of the Caraway-Watson propaganda TO which
the Democratic minority in the senate and Demo
cratic publicity mediums have been lending them
selves. II has been known in administration circles
that this campaign was inspired by those who were
especially interested in discrediting Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty in the hopes that it would succeed
and by its success would prevent the prosecution
of. enormous war frauds which were pulled off un.
der the Wilson regime.
The Caraway-Watson campaign of billingsgate
has miserably failed in all except one particular.
II succeeded in besmirching a large number of
Democratic leaders and in giving the country the
proper measure of the Democratic minority in the
senate which tolerated and even encourage Wat
son and Caraway in their disreputable tactics.