Evening star., 1924-03-29
CRITICIZES COOLIDGE
FOR DELAYING ACTION
Hull Says Daugherty Resignation
Finally Was Asked on
Teehnicality.
MORAL" ISSUE IGNORED
Declares Democrats Will Restore
Honest" Government.

In a statement issued from demo-
cratic headquarters here criticizing
President Coolidge for not having
called sooner for the resignation of
Attorney General Daugherty, Chair
man Hull of the democratic national
committee said:
President Coolidge's demand for
the resignation of Attorney General
Daugherty Is in line with his be
lated action and hindsight in all
matters relating to or growing out
OF the scandals in which the admins
tratfon is involved. He has waited in
this matter, as he has waited in other
phases of these scandals until public
opinion has driven the panic-stricken
| leaders OF his party to bring pressure
upon him, and until his delay has be-
come public reproach, and then has
based his request for the Attorney
Generals resignation not upon any
moral ground. but upon a technical
ity. He has abandoned the ground
entirely upon which he has sustained
the Attorney General until now.
Throughout ali of the scandalous
revelations involving members of the
Harding Coolidge administration the
President has betrayed no moral
shock or resentment, nor given any
| evidence that he is the possessor of
what is known as the Puritan con-
science.
Sees Removal as Gratifying.
1T is a matter for public gratifi-
| cation that Attorney General Daugh-
erty is out of the cabinet upon any
pretext whatever, but it is regret
table that President Coolidge did not
have the moral courage and fore
sight to ask for his resignation long
n a acn 1yff hi
for his action.
The delay in this case is charac-
tertstic of the delay and the mac
tton OF republican administrations
since President Taft first went into
the White House in 1909 surround ed
by notorious combination of reac-
tionary politicians and predatory
business interests whose controlling
purpose always is to use various gov
ernmental agencies to enrich them
selves by plundering the public, and
VINO nave ruthlessly dominated the
administration and the republican
party. During political campafgns
they practically place the government
on the auction block, with the result
tnat the Dig campaign contributors
later come 10 Washington and writ q
| their high tariffs, secure their leases
| or naval oil reserves and manifold
other special privileges. which they
feel they have bought and paid for
The delay and inaction of Presi-
dent Coolidge is only a symptom
Harry Daugherty and his methods and
associates are only a symptom The
real seat of the disease is in this
group of political pirates and business
freebooters in whose clutches the
| republican party and its officiaIs
when in control of the government
are helpless, because they are at the
| mercy of the former for party nomi-
nations, and Of the latter for cam
paign contributions and many pub
| licity agencies under special interest
| control
The cure for this disease is the
substitution of clean, honest and
| efficient government for corrupt dis
honest and inefficient government
-Four years of Taft and more than
three years of the present admins
, tration have demonstrated that the
kind of government needed can not
come through the republican party
as now controlled. Eight recent
years of honest, incorruptible demo-
cratic rule offers every assurance
that another democratic administra-
tion would restore popular govern
ment honestly conducted"