Conviction to Influential Men Proves Government is Sound and Impregnable to Lies, Jan. 31, 1925

Daugherty Comments on Means and Forbes Verdicts. . . Says They Should be Lesson to Persons Who Think They Have Pull with the Public Officials

By the Associated Press

The conviction of Gaston B. Means in New York and Charles R. Forbes in Chicago should be a beneficial lesson to a great many people, including those who think they have a pull with officials in the public service, former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty declared today in commenting upon the verdict in the Means and Forbes cases.

The former attorney general said that inasmuch as he directed both of these prosecutions he though it improper to make an extensive comment.

The public should beware of the man who pretends great parity and a peculiar pull, Mr. Daughterty said. “If the lesson is obscure, people in the future will read with great discrimination, believe less of what they hear, and do some thinking themselves. The bitterest attacks are made upon men who are doing their duty, but the real reason for the attacks is never assigned. Watch the outcome when a man being pinched puts up a plea that he is being framed. The government at Washington is sound and impregnable to wind and storm and falsehood.”

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Jan. 31, 1925

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