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Show WESTBROOK PEGLER The Law Bows to Politics THE department of justice is more sinister now than it has been at any other time in the life of the existing American people because it has no eode but politics. . Cong. Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley labor emancipation law, remarked, with elfin delicacy, that4 he thought the department had been exceedingly lax in its preparation of the case against Jimmy Petrillo in Chicago. This was only one defeat if many which Hartley might view with deep suspicion. The department is adept at losing cases in which political proteges of the Democratic party might be caught guilty. Its record of defeats Is long, consistent and disgraceful. Murderous, thieving unioneers who will become historic in the national gallery of rogues have walked out of court free in every important case, although the department of justice had proof of guilt that should have left no shadow of a doubt , Prosecutions have been thrown; dangerous immigrants have been eased through the naturalization process; tax cases have been settled on percentages, and paroles and pardons have been arranged In a haphazard way. -v -v - |