Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-28
INVESTIGATING HI
INVESTIGATORS

INVESTIGATING THE
INVESTIGATORS
THERE is still much talk at the
i national capital over the con-
neetion of Attorney General Daugh-
erty with the Morse case, and the
Bosch case, and the refusal of the
republican chairman to proceed
with the Investigation is much crit
icised. There is certainly a good
deal of smoke arising from the Of
flee of the attorney general, and
the suspicion arises that where
there is so much smoke there is
probably some fire. The reputa-
ton Of Mr.. Daugherty before these
scandals arose was not such as to
inspire confidence after they arose.
He was a politician lawyer handling
Doodle in political campaigns.
He had charge Of President
Harding's pre-convention am :
paign, and his appointment as head
Of the department of justice was
generally recognized as the pay
ment of a political debt just as
George Harvey's appointment as
minister to Great Britain was rec
ognized as the payment of a poll
teal debt, rather than an appoint
ment due to special merit.
When Senator Caraway rose in
his place in the senate IN May 2
and charged that Attorney General
Daugherty received a fee for help
ing c. w. Morse to make his get
away from the Atlanta p%enitentiary
during Taft's administration, Sena-
tor Jim" Watson of Indiana made
haste to defend Daugherty and to
deny the whole story. He did
this on the word and authority of
Daugherty, he said.
On May 20 Senator Caraway had
printed in the Congressional Rec
ord a letter which Daugherty had
written Morse demanding a balance
of $4,000 due on contract. The
Washington News on that day
printed a Photographic copy of the
letter bearing Daugherty's sigma
ture, as we'll as a copy of the con-
tract which Morse made with
Thomas B. Fielder of Atlanta, who
brought Daugherty into the case
because of his close relations with
the president at that time-Taft
While the contract is made by
Fielder, it provided for a retainer
of $4,000 for Daugherty, and ex.
penses, with an additional $25,00c
in case of Morse's release being OBJ.
tanned.
Senator Caraway, who has done
the people the service of exposing
Daugherty's action in contracting
with this man, who was a convicted
felon, agreeing to relieve him from
his very proper punishment through
his influence with the president
stated that the only decent course
left open to Daugherty was to re.
sign. Of course the mar who pu,
this job over on a president is no,
the sort who will resign, and the
present incumbent at the White
House hasn't enough of the Roose'
Welt spirit to fire him, as he sc
richly deserves. Of course Morse
did not pay the $4,000, but pro.
ceeded to organize new companies
which sought and obtained govern.
ment contracts, and is again in ths
tolls for alleged frauds on the gov.
eminent.
In the Ladies Home Journal Of
April, 1914, is found an article BY
President Taft in which he said
"One never knows until he has
been in the presidency the amount
of pressure that is brought in one
way and another to stay prosecu
tons and to pardon criminals.
had two cases before me in which
it was represented that both the
convicts were near death. Exam
nations were made by the army
medical corps, watches were es
tablished and it was reported tina
both were in the last stages Of {
fatal disease. One of them dice
soon after he was released. An
other of them is apparently in ex
cellent health and seeking to re
establish himself in the field il