The Washington times., 1922-12-03
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. DAUCHERTYAS
PUPPET Of RICH
Untermyer Charges Friends of
Morgan Were Not Prose-
cuted by Attorney General
CALLED CHEAP POLITICIAN
Killed Antitrust Law, Asserts
Counsel Who Probably Will
Direct Impeachment Fight

Opening wide the floodgates
Of acrid criticism and vitriolic
denunciation, Samuel Inter
myer, noted New York attor,
ney, in a speech read here
last night in which he charac-
terized Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty as a "cheap
politician and legislative lob
byist, under whose administra-
ton Of the Department Of JUS
tice we have reached the lowest
depths Of humiliation to which
any civilized country has sunk
in recent years"
Untermyer's sensational speech
was read by former Congressman
Heating before a notable group
at a banquet in a local hotel
which brought to a close the two
days Of progressive conferences"
IN Washington. Seldom has a
public man been attacked more
savagely than was Daugherty.
Untermyer was called home to
New York city before the time
set for his speech.
SEES RAY OF HOPE.
mo amount OF public service
President Harding may perform, !"
asserted Untermyer, "can counter
act the harm he has done by ap-
pointing Daugherty as the head Of
the Department Of Justice. In NAM
ing him, the President has struck
q blow at the Administration of
Justice from which 1t will not soon
recover"
In the progressive movement now
under way, Untermyer declared, IL
the first ray Of sunshine to 1.-The
heartsick and disillusioned friends
Of progressive government, who
have stood helplessly by for eight
(cQ) years while their Government
has been thrown into involuntary
liquidation with the trusts, corpora.
tions and war profiteers acting as
trustees"
Now, he said. the people are be.
ginning to turn from "the brutal
game In Europe" and pay some at.
tention to the conduct of home at
fairs, demanding from their public
servants an accounting Of their
stewardships during those years
when the people were too busy with
the troubles of other nations to
look after their own"
Untermyer's attack took on add
"a significance wehn it was re-
called that he probably will be the
counsel for the prosecution OF the
Impeachment charges against the
Attorney General now pending In
Congress.
Mr.. Untermyer continued:
have come here for the pur-
pose Of sounding a note Of warn
Ing, dispassionate, without parti-
sanship, but intensely earnest,
against what I regard as the COM
plete breakdown in the admins
tration of justice.
FEARS CATACLYSM.
We are rapidly drifting toward
the cataclysm which was predict
ed when. instead Of selecting a
great lawyer for that exalted post
: Of Attorney General, a man Of the
most mediocre attainments. was
named, solely on the basis of per-
DOIldA IEicHubHip dhu pOhtiCdh
service-a man Of the measure Of
the average ward politician. who
q without learning or training as
q lawyer. and whose lifelong en-
vironment and practical work had
been that of a legislative lobby.
ist and nothing moro.
This 10 not an easy task nor are
these pleasant words, for we are
discussing q man OF genial. COM
panionable personality, but one
who II in every way as conspicu-
Ously unfit for this great office
O. II was possible for the Presi-
dent to have selected. II he had
zone into any town of the coun-
try and blindly selected the first
man he met with q certificate to
practice law, he could not have
done worse. and would doubtless
have Jared better. The situation
demands plain speech. for the
peril II great
II, a I insist. the highest test Of
ne efficiency Of government II In
the administration Of Justice. we
have reached the lowest possible
DEPTHS Of humiliation to which any
civilized country has sunk in recent
years. The thought that q man OF
this character, with whom political
opportunism 10 the dominant consid-
erntiou, virtually has at this time
the selection Of twenty-three Federal
district Judges and that he In to be
Z potent fActor In reconstituting the