Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
SEEKD|STR|bUTORS
OF HARDING LIBEL
Reward Of $1,000 offered in
Berks for CircuIators Of
Racial SANDER
COURT OFFICIAL ARRESTED

spsciaI DtspdfoA to Everino Public Ledger
Reading, Pa, Nov. Thomas G.
Seidel, chairman OF the Berks county
Republican committed, who on Satur-
day caused the arrest OF Harvey l..
Bausher, q Democratic leader and clerk
of Quarter Session, upon a charge OF
criminal libel In having printed a lot
OF circulars rejecting on the racial
caste Of Senator Harding, today offered
q reward Of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction OF any person mailing the
alleged libel. The chairman has also
notified the Postofice Department that
II Is being sent through the mails.
Bausher entered $1,000 bail for trial
at court and waived hearing before
Alderman High; who Issued the war
publican. Bausher declares Seidel has
no standing to bring a suit for alleged
libel on a citizen OF Ohio. He admits
circulating the Harding story, which he
says Ia sponsored by Prof. William II.
Chancellor, Of Wooster University,
Ohio.
New York, Nov. 1.--George White,
chairman OF the Democratic national
committee, last night issued a statement
In reply to an earlier declaration by
Scott @. Bone. publicity director Of the
Republican national organization, de-
against Senator Harding was ever car =
ried on by any one connected with the
travelling retinue OF Governor Cox. Mr..
Whites statement follows:
"The Democratic candidates and
their. national committee have conducted
the presidential contest on high plane
and have pitched IL on the greatest moral
issue of recent times. Those who are
seeking to drag IL down to the level OF
a constable's race by publishing gossip
which has been circulated for years In
Ohio by Republicans In their urinary
convention fights and in Chicago during
the recent Republican national conven
ton and then seek by inference to
weight down the Democratic party with
Il. will fail. This election will be set
tied on the issue OF the League Of Ma
tions. Our candidates are going in, the
Republicans are staying out.
"It is perfectly obvious to every ont
that the eleventh hour action of parti
san Republican newspapers In widel,
circulating this story about Senator
Harding paved the way suspiciously fo
the statement issued by the Republica,
national committee last night. Thi'
statement inferentially charges thu
Democratic committees with responsible
ity. 1t is q desperate political trick
and II will fail to divert the attention
Of the country from the issue, as it wal
designed to do. We have fought clear
fight. We have from the begnnin,
spurned any contact with personal COS
sip, and we shall not submit to bein,
charged, openly or inferentially, with II
"Only one assertion from Republican
Headquarters requires direct answer
and that Is the statement that the Hard
ing story was disseminated on Cover
nor Cox's special train Governor Co
assured me over the telephone from
Dayton last night that this infamous
accusation Is without shred of truth.
| Republican Statement
The Republican statement declared !:
The Whispering campaign so in
sidiouSly and wickedly carried on b.
conscienceless Democratic partisans, 1
now out into the light and condemne,
by the press Of the country. Democratic
and Republican newspapers alike.
Originating in Ohio. with no othe
foundation for IL than the yaporing
Of n miserable person of unbalance,
mind. It was designedly and system
atically spread from state TO state, a
the cost cf many thousands OF dollars
THAT the author OF the calumn
has not borne this expense Is to-
obvious for comment.
"The Washington correspondent of
large Democratic newspaper here In tn
East today volunteered the information
that, to his personal knowledge, tn
lying stuff, in printed. mimeograph o
typewriter form, was In evidence o.
Governor Cox's special train and dis
seminated by a young man closely con
nected with the Ohio Democratic stat
committee.
"The sordid facts speak for them
selves. In all the annals of America
politics there is nothing approachin
this infamous chapter which mu.
, Grouse the righteous wrath and indig
nation OF every right thinking man IN
woman the country over.
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