The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-22
DAUCHERTY IN
CANTON SPEECH
DEFENDS ACTS
Renders Accounting In
Only Campaign
Address In His
Home State
(Rv Associated Pressl

CANTON. Ohio. Oct 21.-Making his
only campaign speech to the voters of
his home state, Attorney General Daugh-
crty tonight rendered an accounting of
his stewardship at Washington, defend
ed his course in the Chicago injunction
proceedings and in the prosecution of
war frauds, and declared that despite
accusation and calumny," the depart
ment Of Justice would proceed to per-
form it's duties at is sees them under
the constitution.
In the strike emergency. the attorney
general said, the federal government used
the injunction as the least drastic means
at hand for rescuing the country from
''the grip Of civil war" He ascribed some
of the blame to the 'radicalsm and char
acter'' of prominent labor leaders and
some Of tito hard boiled railway .eSeon-
tives, and asserted that any attorney
general who would not have acted under
the circumstances should be i'm
peached.''
Purpose OF Attacks.
Declaring the real purpose of attacks
OH the departments record in war frauds
investigation was to force the hand OF
the government and prematurely dis
close important evidence, Mr. Daugherty
said such assaults had been inspired.
not by the departments inactivity. but
because tender spots had ben touched by
the suits already under way. I'VE would
have heard little criticism of the depart
ment of Justice" he said. had it not
been discovered that a case like the
Chemical Foundation for instance, Gin
which valuable patents were assigned by
public officials to companies which they
themselves had organized) was under in
vestigation and the part played by those
involved also was being scrutinized by
government agents
The attorney general rscounted the
difficulties encountered in war fraud
prosecutions in the face of scattered evil
dence of which he said the previous ad-
ministration did not avail Itself when
the time was Opportune.
lie said his own admnistra ton had
gone to work as soon as it was installed.
LAS soon as it became known how
effectually the work was going on"
he continued THE storm broke.
No Enemy OF Labor
Mr.. Daugherty prefaced his discussion
of the rail strike with an assurance that
he was no enemy of honestly organized
labor.
Il am your sincere friends and will not
deceive YOU" he said, addressing the
laborer directly, but you make a mis-
take when you set up rules III CoAillCt
with the rules, laws and constitution Of
our common country.
Your principal trouble lies. and your
greatest danger is in the radicalism and
character OF some of your most promi-
nent leaders. Your security lies in the
of the United States and In
the laws of the United States, and in
good opinion, by you deserved, Of all
the American people. There is no quarrel
between labor and the government.
"A few irreconciliable railroad execu-
tives, who insist upon calling themselves
hard boiled might also with considerable
benefit to the country be dispensed with
The fault is not all on one side but at
time when strife which was almost civil
war ragged in this country, the govern
lnent, having the right to do so, insisted
upon the railroads performing their
necessary functions to serve the people.
Those in conflict with the railroads In
terfered with the performance of this
service and il was TO protect the rights
~ all the people, strikers and employers
and every man, woman and child IN the
country that the government in its
rightfuI capacity, took hand.
Another step the government could
have taken was to have called out federal
troops. That would have been sorry
iay. but it would have ben done hah
compelled. Appeal after ap-
peal had come to Washington for troops,
but they were withheld. "