The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
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time you did so his character was al ready notorius. $ can imagine no maladministration in any govern mental department more vicious than the employment of men of such charact- er."
 Adverting, to the indictment of Sen ator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, "prosecutor" for the Senate committee, Mir. Davis said the significant thing" was that no effort to find such an in dictment had been made until Senator Wheeler had assumed leading part in the criticism of the administration and of yourself.'
 In writing MT. Daugherty that he was mistaken that such references as had been made to him were unusually vague and all the more reprehensible," |" Mir. Davis said he begged to call at tention to them.
 Cites Speeches
 'In my speech of acceptance" he wrote, Il spoke of an attorney general, meaning yourself, admitting bribe takers to the Department of Justice. making them his boon companions and utilizing the agencies of the law, for purposes of private and political venge- ance. l went on to say, with reference to the congressional investigations, in generals that when discovery was threat ened, instead of aid and assistance from the executive branch, there were hur- ried efforts to suppress testimony, to discourage witnesses, to spy upon in vestigators and finally, by trumped up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. The spying on Sen ators and Congressmen the nasty in- terchange Nof telegrams in the depart ment code; the refusal of those accused to come forward, under oath, to purge themselves-all these things serve to
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 These paragraphs embrace, with one exception, the substance of what l have said in these or later speeches scon- cerning yourself. I regret to say that find no warrant whatever for with drawing any single statement which they contain.
 As For Means
 "Insofar as the man Gaston B. Means is concerned, I have read the repudiation of his former testimony which you enclosed in your letter., l observe that since your letter was. de- livered to me he has once more recanted and repudiated his repudiation. When he testified before the Brookhart Con- mittee, I expressed the opinion, which I see no reason to change, that no man should be convicted of an Offense on the uncorroborated Testimony of witness whose evil character was so generally known as his.
 Tt was you, however, who appointed him to confidential position in the department of justice. You brought him into the circle of your official in- inmates. You created him a govern ment agent. You gave him his creden- tials. At the time you did so his character was already notorious, and if I am not misinformed there was then to be found, in the bureau of investi- gation of the department of justice, a file in which his previous history was fully disclosed. can imagine no maladministration in any governmental department more vicious than the em- ployment of men of such character.
 At the time gave voice to the opinion above quoted. expressed a sentiment which I still entertain; that the appointment of such a man in the department of justice was of itself ample warrant for the summary re- moval of the Attorney General by whom he was appointed.
 Utterly UnfOunded
 ''As to the indictment against Sen ator Wheeler, committee of the Sen ate, headed by Senator Borah, has in vestigated the matter, as you know, and has declared the indictment to be utterly without fOundation.- The sign ificant thing, however, is that no effort to find such an indictment was made until Senator Wheeler had assumed leading part in criticism of the ad- ministration and of yourself, that there after, as result of conferences between the secretary of the republican na- tional committee and the chief of your bureau of investigation, agents of the department, were sent to Montana with direction to investigate him; that the secretary of the republican national committee himself sent a representative to Montana with like instructions.
 What other possible conclusion can be drawn from this combination of cir cumstances except that the securing of this indictment was promoted primarily by motives of revenge on the part of yourself and the republican party and not by a sincere desire to enforce the law?
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