New-York tribune., 1920-01-13
Glass Asserts
Hays Charge
Is Defamation
Denies Treasury Used Bond
Buyers Names as Mailing
List for Administration i'm
Its Political Propaganda
kilograms Made Public
Pleads Ignorance of Acts
of National Committees
or of Their Chairmen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Telegraphic
correspondence between Secretary
Glass and Chairman Hays of the Re-
publican National Committee, center
ing about the assertion of Mr.. Hays
in his Denver speech last week that
the Democratic Administration had
sent out thousands of tons of propa-
ganda to Liberty Bond buyers, food
card signers. war workers, etc." was
made pablic tonight by the Treasury
Secretary. who declared he regarded d
the charge as an entirely reprehen-
sible species Of defamation"
Secretary Glass in a telegram "a
Chairman Hays last Friday, the day
following the Republican chairman's
address in Denver. called attention to
= dispatch quoting Mr.. Hays as saying
shat the name of every buyer Of Lib
eIty bonds of the United States WAS
put on the Democratic mailing list for
the forthcoming campaign" and asked
that Mr.. Hays either produce proof "or
publicly retract this slander upon the
Treasury of the United States"
Reasserts Charge
Replying the following day in a tele-
gram from Salt Lake City, Chairman
Hays denied that he had said that the
Treasury Secretary "had furnished the
names Of all buyers of Liberty bonds
for the use of the Democratic commit
tee as mailing list" but that he did
say that the Democratic Administra-
tion sent thousands Of tons Of propa-
ganda to Liberty bond buyers, food
card signers, war workers, ETC., during
the paper shortage and while limiting
the use Of paper by the press, and that
q large part of it's was Democratic po-
litical propaganda, and that all of il
was paid for by the taxpayers money
The Republican chairman in his tele,
gram said he desired to call the atten.
tlon Of Secretary Glass to what he
described as reliable information that
'the Democratic committee has ever
resorted to drawing drafts on bankers
in whose banks government funds are
deposited, wiring such bankers tka,
they had already drawn such drafts,
and in conclusion said he hoped the
Treasury Secretary would 'join with
us in an effort to make the coming
campaign a contest between two great
political parties"
"A Common Practice.
Replying to Chairman Hays to-day
Secretary Glass said the only part OF
the chairman's reply which was "perti-
nent to his previous telegram" wa.
athe apparent denial'' of the press dis
patcn ascribing TO the chairman the
statement as to the use of lists of Lib
erty bond buyers.
The Republican chairman's charge as
to the sending out Of tons of parti-
san political literature, Secretary Glass
telegraphed, conveyed ian implication
Of gross stupidity, as we'll as down
right dishonesty" which Mr.. Glass sale
ne resented "as both false and silly"
Denying that he had any knowledge
Of the financial activities of either the
Democratic or Republican nationa
committees, or the chairman as re.
CARDS drawing Of drafts on banks hav-
ing government deposits without pre-
vious consent, Secretary Glass said
at would not be astonishing to fine
that both of you have repeatedly done
this" Agreement with Mr.. Hays that
this is no time for little things
IS expressed by the Treasury Sec
retary