DAUGHERTY NOT
APPOINTED FOR
HIS ABILITY ALONE
By David la wrence
(Copyright. 1921, by Th Journal)
"Washington, Feb. 23. Something
like a chuckle perhaps it might be
better called a smile of satisfaction -came
out of the White House today
and spread its imaginary echoes over
the Know-covered grounds of the ex
ecutive mansion. It was simply that
"Warren Harding had contributed by
a single remark more to the vindi
cation of, the policies of Woodrow
Wilson, human being, than any his
torian of the future could possibly
apply to Woodrow Wilscpi, president.
When President-elect Harding told
the correspondents at St. Augustine
that the opposition to the selection of
Harry M. Daugherty as attorney gen
eral has only served to strengthen his
determination to appoint Mr. Iaugherty
to that office because he was his trusted
friend, he expressed a natural emotion
which has"- been back of Mr. Wilson's
steadfast loyalty to nis own friends in
public office whenever they have been
.attacked.
STANDS BT FEIEXDS
For instance, when public criticism
of Secretary Daniels appeared to be
growing, Mr. Wilson refused to consider
.a change in the navy department port
folio because, as he -expressed it, Mr.
Daniels was his trusted friend. When
attacks 'upon Secretary- Baker began to
accumulate during the war and when
Mr. Baker offered to resign, the presi
dent would not listen to it and on the
contrary wrote him a letter saying he
bad absolute confidence in him.
When the campaign against George
Creel became hottest, Mr. Wilson
turned aside all suggestions that Mr.
Creel -be removed and insisted that
Creel was his loyal friend and could do
no wrong.
DISREGARDED CRITICISM
When Postmaster General Burleson
was under attack, Mr. Wilson again
declined to believe that the attacks were
anything more than indirect attacks on
himself.
Mr. Burleson had been a loyal friend
and was retained. Although there have
been instances here and there in which
Mr. Wilson has forsaken his friends
and given them cause for chagrin, by
and large, he has stood by most of the
personal friends whom he elevated to
public office. '
For this policy he has been severely
criticized and that's why, when Mr.
Harding stands out firmly for his loyal
friend and political companion of many
years and appoints him attorney gen
eral, notwithstanding the editorial criti
cism and skepticism concerning Mr.
Daugherty's fitness for the job.
The people still living at the White
House can't help but extend a disin
terested hand of approval for that part
of Mr. Harding's character which sticks
by friends irrespective of their merit.
The last thine that a Hardinsr man
woQld like to admit is that in any re
spect' the president-elect is starting out
like his rredeeessor in preferring to ap
point personal friends rather than utter
strangers whose idiosyncrasies might be
come a source of embarrassment later on.
But entirely apart from the personal
consideration involved in selecting Mr.
Daugherty. there is a far deeper signifi
cance in the appointment than appears
on the surface.
REWARD SECESSART
Everyone who has been on the inside
of the discussion of the last three
months as to whether or not Harry
Daugherty should be appointed attorney
general knows that there have been two
points of view one that Mr. Daugherty
never had been a big enoilgh lawyer in
Ohio to justify his elevation to. the head
of the department of justice and the
other that if Mr. Daugherty wasn't ap
pointed it would be a severe setback to
party organization, for it would be such
a conspicuous example of political in
gratitude as to interfere at the outset
with the splendid development of united
Republican organization, the continuance
of which would be indispensable to the
reflection of Warren Harding in 1924.
Politicians look far ahead and the
sagacious ones insisted that even if Mr.
.uaugnerty's qualifications were not
extraordinary he should be rewarded so
that i everybody in the organization
would know that Warren Harding re
wards the men who do things for him.
SEEDST BE GESItS
The second view prevailed and along
with it was the knowledge that the head
of the department of justice need not be
a genius, as a lawyer, but simply a good
executive. The-solicitor general and the
seven assistants to the' attorney general
are the legal experts of the department.
The attorney general himself shapes
broad Policies and must be an executive
able to conduct negotiations with the
world outside his department and keep
several thousand of employes working
efficiently. .
It doesn't take a remarkable lawyer to
be attorney general any more than it
requires a naval er army officer to run
the army or navy departments. There
fore, the proponents of the second view
won out because they said M. Daugh
erty was a good organizer and would
make a good attorney general, while at
the same time the political considerations
involved in the whole business would be
so well met that Warren Harding could
start his administration with tjie en
thusiastic spirit of the entire Ilepirblican
organization.;
Mr. Harding trusts Mr. Daugherty and
is ready to stand or fall on the record
the letter makes. So far as the gen
eral public is concerned just now It is
probably .disposed to give both Mr.
Harding and : his associates a fair chance
to make good, while persons who know
Mr. Daugherty Intimately know that the
very criticism that has been made will
act as a spur to achievement which will
surprise those who made so bold as to
be skeptics.
MOVIE PROPAGANDA
INQUIRY DEMANDED
Washington, Feb. 23. (I. N. S.)--Congressional
Investigation of po
litical activity of certain leaders in
the motion picture Industry is de
manded In a statement Issued today
by Dr. Wilbur F, Crafts, head of the
International Reform bureau.
Dr. Crafts asserts in his statement
that a secret publicity campaign was
arranged November 22 by movie men
with the object of "scaring the public
stiff, so they will make no defense
against photoplays running day and
night, seven days a week."
They hoped to accomplish this. Crafts
said, by saying a Sunday amendment
was proposed which would put "blue
laws" into the constitution.
There never were any blue laws, and
no reform society had ever dreamed of
putting Sunday into the constitution,
or was even proposing any national
Sunday law," he added.
Communist Party
Makes Big Gains in
Prussian Election
By Karl H. Ton WIegand
(fniTerwl Perricj Staff Corre-.r.ondc rt)
Berlin, Feb. 23. One of the chief fea
tures of the Prussian elections of Sun
day, as shown by the later returns, is
startling gains made by the Communists.
That party, whose program includes
the violent overthrow of the govern
ment, if need be, to attain dictatorship
of the proletariat, has elected, accord
ing to present reports, 27 deputies. It is
expected that when the complete returns
have come in this will be increased to
30 or 31 members of the Prussian parlia
ment. Communists rolled up 1,207.695 votes,
which is double the strength of the Bol
shevik party in Russia.
The Catholic , Centrists will hold the
balance of power in the Prussian parlia
ment, their strength lying in the fact
that no cabinet can be organized with
out them.
The former ambassador to America,
Bernstorff, Jias again entered the polit
ical field, through his reported election
to the relchstag on the Democratic ticket
from Schletswig-Holstein
Another surprise of the election was
the gain made by the Social Democrats,
who will have approximately 100 depu
ties in the Prussian diet.
The popular vote of greater Berlin
was almost equally divided between the
five non-Socialistic parties and the three
Socialistic parties. The former have the
slight advantage of 961,171, against
954,916 votes for the Social Democrats,
Independent Socialists and Communists.
Th 'ast two radical parties rolled up
1.100,000 more votes than their more mod
erate Socialist brethren.
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HUGHES MAY HAVE
10 SHIFT VIEW
TO SUIT SENATE
By Ixwell Mellett
I'niud Sttn Staff Correspondent
Washington, Feb. 23. Examina
tion of .sentiment in the senate re
veals that Charles E. Hughes, as sec
retary of state, may have to revise
his latest .publicly expressed views
regarding the League of Nations if
he is to achieve that harmonious re
lationship with the senate which
President-Elect Harding desires.
This apparently will be the. case un
less there is a shifting of the posi
tion of, mos of the Republican
members. ,
The situaUon in the senate seems to
be that no further consideration will be
given the League of Xationa. Lodge is
against it, Knox Is against it, Borah,
Johnson and the remainder or the if-
reconcilables are, against it.
WHAT HCGHES FA YOKED
Of those mentioned, perhaps the one
whose position is most significant Is
Lodge. His efforts to Indorse ; the
League -with, reservations ended with the
vote of March 19, 1920, whereby the sen
ate refused to ratify the Wilson cove
nant with his amendments. Since then
he has taken the position that the league
is dead and that the United States -has
no concern whatever with the corpse.
Some months after the funeral cere
mony in the senate, Hughes, campaign
ing for Harding, said : . ;
"Under a Republican administration,
we shall be able to retain all that is
good in the proposed covenant (the Wil
son league), while we shall adequately
protect ourselves from what is ill-advised
and dangerous, and, in a sensible
manner, we shall do our full share In
securing, so far as may be possible, in
ternational justice and abiding peace."
"THERE IS HO COTES' ANT" J
It can be said, on the basis of an in
quiry made today, that an effort to re
tain "all that is good in the proposed
covenant" that is to say, to obtain mod
ifications of the present league's char
acter, will not have the Indorsement of
the senate leaders unless they change
their expressed views. -
Nor could there be found a disposi
tion to support Hughes' declaration later
in the campaign that "it is not likely
to be difficult to secure the consent of
other nations- to the modifications and
amendments of the covenant which we
desire."
"There Isn't any covenant, so far as
we are concerned," one important sen
ator said. He was unwilling to be
quoted, since, as he expressed it, he
has no desire to antagonize Hughes and
feels confident that complete harmony
can be established between the senate
and the state department after the latter
takes office. He expressed the view that
Hughes would not endeavor to Impress
any plan for persuading the leaguers to
modify the covenant upon Harding and
through Harding on the senate.
PEACE FIRST MOTE
He expects instead, he said, that
Hughes will carry out the policy agreed
to between Harding and the senate.
This policy, as far as can be outlined
now, will consist of declaring peace with
Germany by resolution and then taking
up the problem of forming some kind of
an association of nations apart from the
league.
March 30. the League of Nations hopes
to have in hand all suggestions for
amendment of the covenant. - Senate sen
timent Is dead against endeavoring be
fore that time to present on behalf of
this country any amendments, as it has
been suggested Hughes might want to
do. Senate leaders do not expect Hard
ing to keep the senate in session after
the confirmation session of March 4 for
the consideration of such possible
amendments.
Boomerang Letter
Returns in 3 Years
Oroville, CaL, Feb. 23. (IT. P.)
George Dyer was In Siberia on Feb
ruary 10, 1918.. He wrote a letter to
his wife here. Dyer returned and yes
terday went . to the postoffice for: his
mail. He was given the letter he wrote
three years ago and the postmarks
showed it had been In every city of
any size in Siberia.
Kaiserin's Brother Dies
Berlin. Feb. 23. (I. N. S.) Duke
Ernst Guenther of ,Schleswig-Holsteln,
a brother of the former kaiserin, died
today of heart failure.
STOP EX KAISER'S
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ALLOWANCE, SAYS
SOCIALIST LEADER
! I By John Grandeni
M fnited Vrw Stuff CorrespondMit
Berlin, Feb. 23. Herr Ditmann,
radical socialist leader, would like
to see the tremendous sums already
turned over and still being allowed
the former kaiser, diverted to pay
ments on the German indemnity.
In an Interview today Dltmann . told
me that if the entente insisted upon
limitation of Wilhelm's fortune and the
application of the balance to the repara
tion funds, it would please German
workmen generally, who as a whole "are
angry and resentful that the kaiser is
getting a large Income, to provido which
they are compelled to pay taxes." ,
In discussing the efforts of some of
the former's kaiser's supporters to pic
ture his plight as deserving sympathy.
Dttmann said it is absurd for the mon
archists to attempt to picture the situa
tion of the kaiser and the crown prince
as difficult.
"It is well known that both have many
millions in private property and can live
safe, luxurious lives. Meantime, the
German working class has , fallen into
the deepest mifery as a result of the
war, which, in the muln, is attributable
to the kaiser.
"During the last two years many valu
ables have ben taken openly and se
cretly from the kaiser's palaces to hi?
Holland retreat. It is ridiculous, impos
sible, to call the kaiser's and the crown
prince's situations desperate.' The mon
archists merely peddle such tales about
to impress the German people and sen
timentally hope thus to recover the van
ished sympathy for a monarchy.
"Beyond this, these lamentations have
no significance."
Bad Checks .Passed, Charjro j -Medford.
Feb. 23. George Koblns. ar
rested here Saturday nlRht after, it If
aliened, he had parsed two bad $4C
checks on loeal merchants, was held for
trial.
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