The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
HAYS SHOWING NO ' 'SCRUP[ES IN HIS
 METHODS ID WIN
Suppression of Truth Is Most Serious Charge Made In
 Campaign of Repub- Z lican Leaders
By HUGH W. ROBERTS


 800 Dayidsoa Building
 Washington. October 9--(Specfa1.l- Will H. Hays. chairman of the repub- Iican national committee, may not con quer, but. in the opinion of the .nafr- mnn of the democratic national com- mittee, he has repeatedly. stopped. to bring about that result.
 In the opinion of Chairman White, there has never been in the histery of Amerscan politics. another Hays. Tn the beginning, he possessed that fn- comparable advantage sshich immeas- .nrable money and riIablc press af- ford. Nevertheless, he lost no oppor- ponents. taking advantage of those natural .openings, which logically fol- lowed the prosecution of the campaign. His shining, however" said MT. White. has not been so much against jGovernor Cox and the democ ratic party as against the American people entitled to information as result of free speech and free press
 SURPRISES THE COVENANT 4 According to MT. White, MT. Hays has remained wake at nights thinking of schemes as result of which the peo- pie might be denied the right of hear ling the facts of the campaign discussed l-rhearnu the truth about situation which vitallJ effected them.
 The deinccrafic chairman has just called upon the republican chairman to aid him in securing the publication in If~-- A xrHx, H~f %l.x League of Nations. This petition stated in another way tha tthe republicans in their official campaign book declined to print the .ext of the covenant. The . epublican stratseists made the COW anant the issue Of the campai gn. They anathematized il ill every line of their publication But they did not print lit to the end that the people might judge for themselves and ascertain ,whether CT not the republicans had 'induiged their apparent propensity in- lordinately to deceive.
 There is little hope on the part of MT. White that MT Hays will comply with his request. and secure the simple ,publicat.on--w;; comment-of that covenant which they have declared tbreatens American. institItions and American autonomy.
 BUYS ALL AUDITORIUMS
 Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi chairman of the speakers bureau oi the democratic national committee contends that MT. Hays or his iieuten- ants, in hope of preventing the heople of the country hearing the democratic side of the argument, have, due tc their excess of money, hired practically all the auditoriums in the debatable territory of the United States.
 They do not particularly care about the people hearing our speakers said Senator Harrison today. They would be entirely satisfied if the people oi the counrry heard only one side of the question-provded that side was the republican side. They would be de- lighted were the people to finger through long lives without Knowledge of actual conditions. without the truth and whole truth on any particular sub. iect.
 Nevertheless, we are going about the copies business. and will give the people the truth. We will, shell the woods this good October, and despite the press gaggtng policy of the repub licau s;fats-Efsts, who would profit by the igEoranc. of people-to which ig- norancc they contributed in large measure--we will reacn the ear of the voter-and thus make him free"
 GAGGING THE PRESS
 But MT. Hays surpassed ever himself when he played his big lcard against Governor COX. He knew