The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-29
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MOtter Says Democrats Use
Many Underhanded Methods.
Postal Rules Violated To Circu-
late Unsigned Pamphlet.
D00LITTLE A VI0LAT0R, TOO
Helvering Accused of Patent
Medicine Affiliations.
Connolly and Thompson Have
Exclusive War Trick.

Win the llu OIL anu tle PollliCd,
motors again hitting on all twelve
cylinders, the Republicans have begun
to open up their exhaust on the Dem
ocratic congressional candidates of the
state and the carbon they are blowing
out into the open indicates collec-
ton that cannot be exhausted between
now and election day.
H. H. Motter, state Republican
chairman, asserted today that in no
campaign within his memory have the
Democrats resorted to such unfair tac-
tics as they are using now, and those
who doubt his word are invited to take
a look at the accumulated evidence he
has in his office. Underhanded and
unlawful use of the postoffices. ques-
tionab BILE capitalization of visits to tho
war zone, unholy alliances with patent
medicine manufacturers and d1gglngs
in graveyards of the long dead past
are among the mud-colored tactics
Motter says the Democrats are using
in their campaign efforts.
Abuse Postoffice Jobs.
OF all the charges, the one Of un-
lawfully using the postoffices to black
en- the record of Phil Campbell in the
Third district, is probably the most Sc
rious. Motter has in his possession al.
unsigned, unlabelled and unidentified
pamphlet that purports to give the
record of Campbell and that, it is said,
is being slipped into the boxes of pa
irons of the Third district postoffices
without envelopes, stamps, addresses
or anything.
The pamphlet might have come
from Democratic headquarters. or
from the DEVILS own printshop for all
that can be learned from the printing
on it. There is a union label with the
figur five at the bottom of the last
page, but no where does it tell where
it was printed. who is the author or
who is responsible for it's circulation.
The pamphlet asserts that Campbell
has been one of the bitterest critics of
the president. that he has lodged
many important votes in congress. that
he voted against the federal reserve
bank bill, against Intervention in Mex
leo. against the, .McLemore resolution
and other war measures.
''The circulation of such a PAM
phlet under its true colors would be
bad enough" Motter says, but to put
it out without signatures or sponsors
and to slip it into the boxes of postof-
flee patrons against the postal regu-
lations shows that there is no limit to
which the Democrats will not go in
their dirty fight.
Doolittle Also Does 1t.
mot only are the Democrats violat-
ing the postal regulations in this way"
Motter says. but have in my possess
tie himself in which he requests post
masters in his district to send him the
names and addresses of the patrons of
their offices, despite the fact that Doo-
l4iittle says in the letter: MY under
standing of the postal rules is that you
personally are not permitted to FUR
nish these lists of new patrons; how
ever. you are not prohibited from hav-
ing it odne.'"
Motter also says that John r. Con-
nelly of the Sixth district is unfairly
and falsely using his war relics to get
the attention of voters in his district
,, and that it is rumored Senator Thomp-
son is doing the same thing. Accord
ing to Motter, Connolly is booking
himself and his war relics in towns
| just as travelling eye glass men and
patent medicine vendors do and that
he is writing letters in advance to wo-
men telling them he saw their sons in
| France and that he would like to meet
them on the day he makes their town
to talk with them about their sons. 1t
| is also rumored. Motter says. that
Senator Thompson wrote a woman in
Manhattan that he had seen her hus-
band in France and that he would
| like to talk to her about him. when
| as a matter OF fact, her husband had
been home from France several
months and was. at the time. working
in a clothing store in Manhattan.
Dope on Helvering.
| AS for the patent medicine charges,
Motter has in his possession letters
that he says show Guy T. He1vering.
Democratic congressman in the Fifth
| district, is mighty closely affiliated
with the medicine men. One letter is
signed py the vice president of / 'ley
| & Company, manufacturers of propri-
etary medicines in Chicago. and is be-
ing sent out to the retail druggists of
| Helvering's district urging them to
support the Democratic, congressman.
This patent medicine concern un-
doubtedly is spending several hundred
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