The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-26
Why Daugherty Sticks

lime brings many changes and we find now
stald and conservative senators making ex-
actly the same charges against Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty that the Communists and other
working class elements made many months
ago.
Senator Robinson on the floor of the senate,
has accused Daugherty of sticking in office in
order to use the machinery of the department
of justice, under the efficient management of
William J. Burns, for protecting the oil crooks
and hampering and terrorizing those senators
who are demanding showdown No intelli-
gent person reading the news stories of Daugh-
erty's antics can come to any other conclusion
than that reached by the Arkansas senator.
There is more than oil graft involved in the
attitude Of the Encouragement. The real
danger to him and his hackers is in the resolu-
ton calling flor an investigation of private de-
tective agencies, introduced by Senator
Wheeler of Montana
With Daugherty out of office a change
would doubtless be made in the executive of
the bureau of investigation, the post now held
by William j. Burns, and we know just enough
about this labor-baiter to feel reasonably GER
tain that once the records of the bureau of in
veStigation and of the department of justice
meet the light of day a sensation will result
that will drive the Teapot Dome scandal off
the front page of every newspaper in America.
The department of justice has been at the
disposal of every labor-hating corporation be-
fore and since Daugherty took office.
William j. Burns operates the largest pr
vate detective agency in the United States; it
is today an auxiliary of the department of JUS
tice and so intricately interlocked with this
wing of the government that it is impossible to
tell where the private agency ends and the
government department begins.
1t Is the most gigantic blackmail system ever
orSgsss nized and its connection with the depart
fIielC OF Justice gives it a semi-official char
acter. It's Vaccinations prevented the impeach-
ment proceedings brought against Daugherty
in the house ever being seriously considered.
1t is UNREASONABLE that the same methods
will be ,used to squash the threatened investi-
cation if Daugherty remains in office.
1t is not too much to say that Daugherty is
today holding the threat of public exposure
and political ruin over the head of more than
one government official and that the support
of him by the president, certain senators and
the national chairman of the republican party
is a support obtained by fear.
In all the hidden cesspools of Washington
society and political life the ferret-like nose
of William j. Burns has been shifting ever
since he was appointed. The darker incide Rts
in the lives of all the Sunday supplement
heroes are known to the encouragement.
No one who knows him will believe that he
will hesitate to use the knowledge that is his
unless immunity is promised.
The Wheeler resolution, if complied with,
will wreck more political careers and give the
American workers more insight into the inner
workings of the government than ali the oil
scandals.
IT is little wonder, that with this sword of
Damocles hanging over his head the moment
he leaves office the encouragement wants to
stick it out.
He is afraid to quit and lot of other people
are afraid to have him quit