Show DAUGHERTY AND HIS HIS OFFENDING Explaining some of the tho odd an- an angles anglee an angles glee to the Daugherty Daugherty case Mark Sullivan the p writer who pip red so important a part In the campaign of 1920 gh ghea es this an- an annb an nb of the fight on the attorney general Partly because or of the toe feeling I that has tried to do his best as attorney general partir because of the demand on him I himI that he be resign at lit just tho the time he was about to be InvestIgated because of ot hl his courage In g this demand and artlY I for tor other reasons there is much s 5 in Washington ashington for t Dt Within a year rear Daugh ty Daugh DaughLy ti Ly has bag lost loet by death two most Lt- Lt Li friends he had In the tho world one ono of o them being President I dent Harding In addition his hIli wife is an Invalid and he has had other personal troubles trouble of a nature so 80 poignant as to make a strong appeal ap appeal peal to sympathy As against this tbs It Is freely ad- ad admitted ad admitted that under the conditions Daugherty Daughert is not a desirable attorney attorney ney general at this time He does not have hale the tho confidence of oC the public and it is a time when it it h essential that the man in the tho at- at at at- attorney torney- torney generals general's office should have complete public confidence In ad ad- ad- ad addition dillon all the trouble just Juat now nov heaped on Daugherty must necessarily necessarily make it difficult for tor him to conduct his hie office in an efficient nay 3 The conflict between the I desIrabIlity of having a different attorney general right no and tho I of empathy for fol Daugherty i plus the feeling that any man under charges is entitled to have these charges heard before lea lea ing office li It what constitutes I the tho dilemma When the heaped up sorro sorrows s or of orthe the attorney general are brought to light there is a disposition to tobe tobe tobe be I less ss severe in the prosecution of oC the man and it et t there is 18 an duty which those who ha hae ha o e the investigating ol or hI his rec- rec record rec record record ord must roust keep in mind and that IS the public n welfare elfare elf are The Tire law Itself recognizes that men must be crushed even put to death if it to the tho corn com com ot of respect for or the law No greater crime has baa been boon per perpetrated against the American pee pea peale people plo le than that committed by the public officials who hue hate ha e brought upon t the e nation tho the odium ot of cor corruption cor- cor in lu go eminent I cor-I |