Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-06
HOW DAUGHERTY LOOKS
TO REPUBLICAN PRESS.

Among tne prominent republican
and independent papers that have
suggested or demanded Attorney
General Daugherty's resignation are
the following:
New York Tribune (Rep.): To
date no sufficient reason is given
why Mr.. Daugherty should not write
his resignation or why the president
should not demand it if not voluntar-
lily rendered.
New York World Ind): What
ever obligation the president may
consider himself to be under to Mr..
Daugherty, he is under an immensely
higher obligation to the American
people to see that the administration
of justice shall deserve public respect
and confidence. Mr.. Daugherty's fit
ness to hold his high office has been
challenged in congress, and strong
case has been made out against him.
He has evaded answering his accus-
ers. Is the administration so blind
as not to see not only the political
consequences of shielding the attor-
ney general against investigation,
but the immeasurable wrong it COM
mits against the public in retaining
at the head of the department of JUS
tice a man whose honor and probity
are questioned?
Baltimore Sun Ind): The dis
closures regarding Attorney General
Daugherty are not mere headline ma
terial for an edition or two. They
may well give the administration
real anxiety and concern. When a
conservative republican newspaper
like The New York Tribune calls
upon the attorney general to resign,
when the demand is echoed by The
New York Herald and other impor-
tant republican journals, it is high
time for the president to appraise
the damaging effect that the revela-
tons have had upon the country and
to ascertain whether the administra-
ton of the department of justice is
in the hands of persons likely to
command public confidence.
Philadelphia North American
(Ind.): If Attorney General Daugh-
erty retains a shred of regard for
the president and the administration,
he will resign without delay an Of
flee which has been put under a
cloud by his incumbency. But the
responsibility goes higher. Presi-
dent Harding owes it to himself, to
his administration, and to the coun-
try to force the severance of an as
ISOLATION which is no longer defen-
sible.
New York Tribune (Rep.): Unless
Attorney General Daugherty has a
better defense of his relations to the
unsavory Morse pardon than thus far
has come from him or his friends he
should relieve President Harding of
embarrassment by prompt resigna-
ton. q. . Mr.. Daugherty should never
have been named as attorney gen.
eral.
New York Globe (Rep): The case
against Mr.. Daugherty is strong
enough without additional incrimina-
ton. He knew that he was being
hired, not to furnish legal advice, but
to use his influence. On that I'M
derstanding he took, or agreed to
take, a large fee. He can clear him
self only by proving that the Fielder
letter and his own signed letter and
contract which Senator Caraway in
troduced into the record on Saturday |
are forgeries.
The misstep and the publicity and
scandal which have accompanied it
are enough to retire Mr. Daugherty
permanently into private life.
Philadelphia Public Ledger (Rep.):
The plight in which Mr.. Daugherty
now finds himself is one that threat
ems and affects the integrity of the
federal administration. When
the integrity, veracity and the gen.
rral qualifications of the attorney
general of the United States threat
en- to become Campaign ISSUE" the
of federal justice is
impeded and clouded.
If the whole business is not
cleared up now, it will 60 into the
coming political campaign, and nei-
her Mr.. Daugherty nor his political
md official associates will be the
,ainer. In the present estate and
ituation the attorney general is
ublic liability and embarrassment.
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