The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-03
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poSdIs ana UphoIoS Mel.
Ions Expert Plan.
The following interview aOGs
gtUen By William Randolph HeCrst
to the NeaU York Times correspond
mt at Palm Beach:
' "What do you think Of the
Daugherty situation? Do you
think the Attorney General should
resign?" he was asked. Mr.
Hearst said:
ut is difficult to determine the
situation as regards Attorney
General Daugherty without some
thing more than mere allegations
accusations.
when Attorney General Daugh-
erty is asked to resign there ought
to be some very definite proof
produced that he ought to resign
DENLY Proof Plain.
I'VE all knew why Secretary Of
the Navy DENLY ought to resign
We knew what he had done. There
was definite proof produced as tc
how, when and why he had leased
the naval oil lands to private in
dividuaIs.
I'VE all know what Mr.. Fall had
done. We all know what Doheny
has done.
1--WE ought to have some facts
about Attorney General Daugherty
before forming an opinion.
Perhaps some Senators have
such facts. If they have, they
ought to produce them, and then
make their allegations based on the
facts.
Until then. the Attorney Gen.
eral is entitled in reasonable meas.
ure to the benefit of the doubt.
1.-THE longer the facts are with
held the more baseless the accuse
ton seems, and the more he Is en-.
titled to the benefit of the doubt.
President Coolidge did not stand
by Secretary DENLY.
president Coolidge does stand by
Attorney General Daugherty.
Possibly, in fact very probably
the President acquainted himself
with the facts in each case before
ho took his stand.
Lodge Should Speak.
Senator Lodge has denounced the
Attorney General, but he has not
produced any facts. If he has
them, why does he not produce
them? The public is entitled to
know all that Senator Lodge knows,
Perhaps Senator Lodge has evil
6ence against the Attorney General
and perhaps he has not.
Perhaps some of the big inter.
ests which Senator Lodge is so well
known to represent don't like At
torney General Daugherty. The
Attorney General prosecuted lot
Of powerful war profiteers.
Perhaps some Of the hullabaloc
against the Attorney General is due
: to the resentment of these wal
81 do not say that this is the
ease. but 1 do say that no basis
tory the accusations against the
Attorney General has been dis
closed to date, and 1, for one
bate to see a man accused without
the facts being produced to justify
the accusations.
Moreover, there is danger Of
this investigation degenerating into
i. , medium for the venting of DO
Htical and personal antagonisms.
1.-THE importance Of Furnishing the
guilty makes it highly important
10 confine the attacks to the guilty
Attorney General Daugherty il
either corrupt or he is not. II
he is, the facts that prove it ought
to be produced. If he is not, he
ought not to be asked to resign.
81 have been told on high au
thority that Secretary DENLY never
consulted the legal department Of
the Government; that he consulted
Secretary Fall and stated he knew
Secretary Fall sat on the bench ir
New Mexico and he believed hi
was as able lawyer as there was
in the Capital"
Raps Democratic Tax.
what do you think Of the Demo
cratic plan of taxation" was asked
Mr.. Hearst said:
II do not think the Democratic
party has any plan Of taxation. II
has a plan Of opposition, without
any genuine plan Of taxation.
"And the trouble with the, Demo
cratic plan is that 1t is not even 9
good plan Of opposition.
Secretary Mellon has reasons fol
his plan-objects that he definitely
wishes to accomplish and argu
ments as to how and why his plar
will accomplish those objects.
And Secretary Mellon IL an able
and experienced financier. 1t would
eeem as II he were the ablest Secre
tary OF the Treasury the country
has had since Alexander Hamilton
And there has not been since the
revolutionary war an occasion wher
the country needed an able Secre
tary Of the Treasury more thar
It has needed one after the grea
World War from which we have
lately emerged.
1.-THE conduct Of the Treasury
Department Of the United States
is, think, more appreciated abroad
than 1t Is at home. Again, 6
prophet IL not without honor save
In his own country.
Melons Work Great.
I'VE here in America hardly
realize the task Secretary Mellon
has had and the wonderful way
IN which he has accomplished it
1t has all been done so smoothly
ana with so little friction and sc
little apparent effort that it has
seemed easy.
"But the difficulties would have
been apparent IL we had had a
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