Evening star., 1934-10-06
STATEMENT STANDS,
PtNCHOT DECLARES
IN REPLY TO FARLEY
Continued From First Page.)

tCOIlJlnucO rTOHl T ASt IdkS.J
I am sure he will not be-do every
thing IN his power to hamper the
Presidents program and to make q
misdeal out OF the New Deal.
Party Has Been Purged.
"Gov. Pinchot assured his hearers
that the Republican party in Pennsyl
vania had been purged of the in
fluence Of the reactionary hierarchy
OF republicanism in the Keystone
State I just wonder IL he thinks that
Senator Reed, who has always been
the spokesman and attorney for An
drew w. Mellon and Lobbyist Joe
Grundy, has been similarly purged.
II likewise wonder how it is that
Joseph F. Guffey who was q high
class, outstanding citizen when he and
Pinchot we're in cooperation, suddenly
became a deep-dyed villain when he
became a candidate for the Senate
against David Reed. The later, in
cidentally. l understand. was the at
torney for Mr.. Guffey in the litigation
to which Gcv. Plnchot referred in his
speech. l personally have no informa-
ton as to the story also mentioned by
the Governor as to his onetime de-
sire for Democratic Endorsement of
his then suggested candidacy for the
Senate
All I know about 1t is the story
printed in yesterdays paper, in which
George H. Earle. the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Pennsylvania.
narrated with considerable detail that
the Governor had asked him to desert
Guffey and support Clifford Pinchot as
the Democratic candidate for the SEN
ate. As to the mention of me per-
sonally, it is part of my job as nationsl
chairman to incur the displeasure OF
Republicans, so naturally the circum-
stance that Gov. Pinchot holds me in
disesteem will not cost me many hours
of sleep"
Guffey Answers Attack.
While Mr. Farley was attacking
Pinchot in Washington. Guffey is
sued a statement in Pennsylvania re-
plying to the Governors attack. In
his Wilkes Barre speech Pinchot had
referred to the fact that Guffey had
been indicted on the charge of en-
beZzling funds while serving as dfrec-
tor Of sales under the alien property
custodian and that eight years passed
before the indictment was finally
quashed. Pinchot said that during
that time Guffey made no effort to
clear his name by bringing the case
to trial
Guffey took sharp issue with the
Governor. He said his attorney,
Joseph P. Tumulty, who served as
President Wilson'S secretary, had "fre-
quently demanded of the New York
district attorneys Office that the case
be brought to trial" Guffey said the
case was purely political and that
the then Republican administration
did not dare to bring 1t to trial.
Guffey continued:
Immediately after the Harding ad-
ministMtion was inaugurated, cam
paign was instituted to discredit the
war administration OF Woodrow Will
son. At least 80 investigating commit
tees were appointed and special ap-
preparation Of So, 100000 was given the
Department of Justice.
Harry Daugherty. then Attorney
General. and the unspeakable Gas
ton Means, head Of the Investigating
Bureau, and now in the penitentiary
after having been convicted Of extor-
ton in the Lindbergh case. spent a
large part of this appropriation trying
to besmirch the administration Of
A. Mitchell Palmer and Francis
Garvan, alien property custodian.
"All the evidence they had was first
presented to a grand jury in Wash
ington, which refused to indict. The
same evidence was again presented to
a grand jury in Boston, which also
refused to indict, and finally it was
presented to a hand-picked political
grand jury in New York, which by a
vote of IL to II found q true bill
against me-"