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NatlOudl OOIuUMGLSSS 11lCesIo WAaI Az
says when he says the Republican
party is not indulging in any "back
stairs" politics to win the coming con-
gressional elections, but is conducting
q campaign that is free from subter-
fuge, is evidenced by letter he to-
day sent to Joseph P. Tumulty, Secre-
tary to President Wilson.
The letter was written in reply to
q telegram Secretary Tumulty stint
11th to Chairman Hays at
his Indianapolis address. It was an
inquiry regarding the veracity Of a
report of remarks Chair
man Hays was alleged to have made
at conference Of Republican state
chai1men held in Chicago on Labor
Day. immediately upon sending the
telegram Secretary Tumulty gave it
to the newspapers, before Mr.. Hays !,
had received it.
At that time Chairman Hays was
in Washington, at a hotel, within q I
few blocks of the White House. He !,
was first appraised Of Secretary Tu-
telegram by reading of it in
the Washington newspapers. With
out waiting for the telegram to be re-
layed from Indianapolis to him, he
called up Secretary Tumulty and ask
ed that a copy Of the telegram be sent
to him in Washington. Upon receipt
of the copy Chairman Hays issued the
following reply:
Washington, D. G. Sept. IL, 1913.
Hon. Joseph P. Tumulty,
White House,
Washington, D. G.
Dear Mr.. Tumulty::
I have your telegram. On Sept. I'd
IN Chicago, / attended a meeting Of
the Association of Republican State
.Chairmen called by it's president and
attended by fifteen Of such chairmen.
AT that meeting made remarks re-
ferring in q general way to the length
TO which Democratic leaders are going
IN their efforts to control the Senate
and Hoas md also as tU The ire
Socable stand Of the Republican party
for vigorous prosecution Of the war
and against an inclusive peace.
I did not use the words quoted in
your telegram. What I said then,
which I now reafirm and which shall
continue to declare, was substantially
as follows:
First. as to the means resorted to
by certain Democratic leaders to get
votes, I said:
I'm the special election in Wiscon-
sin, the Democratic machine leaders
published advertisements, undenicd
since by them, addressed to the SOL
diers at Camp Grant, as follows: ;,
TO the Wisconsin Soldiers at Camp
Grant, Tuesday, April second, you are
entitled to vote for United States Sem
ator from Wisconsin to succeed SEN
ator Paul O. Husting. President Will
son, your Commander in Chief, desires
all loyal citizens to vote for Joseph p.
Davies for United States 3ena:oe.
Davies election means joy at Washing
ton and gloom at Berlin. Davies de-
feat means gloom at Washington and
Joy at Berlin
II regard thigas an infamous pros
titution Of all patriotic proprieties and
the grossest violation Of the plaincst
civil duty, worthy Of the severest con-
demnation Of all Americans. In this
crisis, when all patriots are striving to
bring the aid Of the country's cause
every resource in men and material,
when thousands Of Republican and
Democratic boys are dying, side by
side, when both political parties are
loyal, such conduct is immeasureably
reprehensible. From such action it is
evident, and I regret to lay it, thai
these Democratic leaders will 20 to
any length to carry the Senate and
the House. Such unaptriotic efforts to
use the war for partisan purposes
must fail. Such inevitable failure
was indicated by the Wisconsin result,
it was further shown in the Michiga,.
primary. and it will be conclusively
proven in the Maine election next
week. The American people will not
tolerate it. This is the war of NO po-
litical party. This is the peoples war,
and we demand that the war be kept
out of partisan politics and. that parti !:
sanship be kept out Of the war. And
what we ask from the party in power
we irrevocably pledge for ourselves. "
Second, as to the imperative neces-
sity Of a vigorous prosecution Of The
war and conclusive peace only, and
the need of Republican congress to
that end, and in connection with a dis
cussion of the candidacy Of Mr.. Ford
in the Republican primary in Michigan
and his state as to why he tecame a
candidate, and while reviewing the
service Republicans in congress rem
dered the major war measures which
were opposed by the Democratic lead
ers, Chairman Dent Of the Military
Affairs Committee, Floor Leader
Kitchen, Chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee, and others, said:
Eve demand the most vigorous pro-
ecnfi0n Of the war and n neace with