The sun., 1916-11-02
PERKINS REPEATS
DECEPTION CHARGE
Writes Democratic Chairman
Mccormick Alleging Fraud
in Tariff Issue.
TELLS OF BREAD LINES
Quotes President to Show Pur-
pose Not to. Annul Under
wood Bill.

Having failed to get q reply to his
letter sent recently to Vance Mccormick.
chairman OF the Democratic National
Committee, accusing the Democratic
campaign managers Of fraud and decep.
ton in the conduct Of their campaign.
especially with respect to the tariff Is
sue. George w. Perkins sent another
letter to Mr.. Mccormick yesterday re-
peating the charge. The letter follows:
any reply to the letter I wrote you the
other day r~esenting the attack you made
IN me and directly accusing your SOM.
mittee and your candidate with trying
to obtain the Presidency BY deception
and Misrepresentation. Not only this.
but you are continuing this kind OF cam.
pa'gn.
This morning you publish q cartoon
In which you say hat American work.
men are at work because Wilson pre-
ferred war as a last resort. This state
ment Is absolutely false In two respects /:
J First. we are in war with Mexico and
the Judge Advocate General Of h army
has only recently said 30 In q formal
statement: second. " orkm are at
work not because We are not at war but
because the European nations are at
, war among themselves n RS q consc.
quence are buying huge amounts Of war
! munitions from us. which our workmen
are engaged In manufacturing.
Thousands Were Jebless.
Il am confident that these same work.
| vnap haxa not foru,fton that xvhan NJ
Wilson and the Democratic party as
sumed the reins Of government on March
1. 1918, they were all at work. They
also remember that within elk months
after the WILSON, Underwood tarin bill
went into effect and Immediately our in
dustries began to shut down and In q
few short months hundreds Of thousands
of our workmen were Jobless. Things
were rapidly going from bad to worse.
Governors Of States. Mayors OF cities,
groups OF citizens were trying In every
way to assist the thousands who were In
dire distress.
Suddenly the European war broke out.
Orders for munitions began to pour In
on us and these idle men were put to
work-put to work not because Of any
thing Mr.. Wilson or the Democratic
party had done. but put to work In spite
OF what they had done.
Retarn TO Bread Lines.
"When this war Is over there IL moth
ing to prevent our going back to pre-
cisely the same conditions that existed
Just before the war broke out. This II
so for two reasons. First. the Wilson.
Underwood tarifY Is eth on the books
second. only last Saturday in his speech
at Shadow Lawn President Wilson said I:
"'I rave but one superstition. namely
that II Is bad luck when YOU start In one
direction to turn around and 20 back.
have acted Upon that superstition all my
life and l intend to act upon II In the
future and l do not see any obstacle thai
would make me turn back
I'm 1914 and the winter OF 1915 thu
free lodging houses. the bread lines. thu
thousands of men and women out o,
work were caused by Just ono thing
namely. the Wilson-Underwood tarifl. Il
was not a question Of capital or ready
money, for as your own Democrat,
Governor of Texas said at the time, we
are broke with our pockets full o.
money
II again repeat that you are trying 4
obtain the Presidency On false pretencel
and that the campaign has narrowel
: down to Just one issue. namely. Can vii
son get away with It; can he put It over
81 do not believe he can"