Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-22
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G. 0. P. Trying to Make It
the Leading Issue to Di-
vert Attention From Is
sues More Damaging.

washington, Aug. 2l.-Chdlrmar
| Cordell Hull, of the democratic ma
tional committee, replied in a state
ment tonight 10 the letter of Secre-
| tary Hughes on the seating of SEN
i iator Newberry. Of Michigan. dc
claring that the letter was plan
| of republican leaders TO make
"Newberryism the paramount is
lsue" of the campaign as means
of diverting public attention from
many other issues still more
damaging" Secretary Hughes in
his letter, made public last night
by the republican national COM
mittee, declared that Senator New
berry had been wrongly and most
unjustly convicted"
In his statement, Mr.. Hull said,
"The national republican leaders
have decided to make Newberryism
the paramount issue. in the present
national congressional campaign,
and have put forward Secretary
Hughes as the attorney to state the
case and offer the chief defense. In
selecting Secretary Hughes for this
delicate and dangerous task, repub-
lican leaders have made a mistake.
Secretary Hughes is only a civil
lawyer, whereas this national ad-
ministration needs the ablest Grim
inal lawyers to be found to defend
it this year.
Rising Tide of Indignation
'In a desperate effort to check
the rising tide of popular indigna-
10 nf
eighteen-months' record of this ad-
ministration and it's congress con-
tains more elements of complete
failure than any or all their pre-
decessors, republican leaders have
felt obliged to single out this one
issue and make it paramount as
the only means of diverting public
attention from many other issues
deemed still more damaging. II
was evidently decided that Secre-
tary Hughes might drama
tize Newberryism in such an at
ractive way as to draw attention
away from the destructive
efforts of the republican industrial
panic of 1922 and from the con-
fused, lop-sided, uncertain and de-
state of business, indus
trial, economic and social condI-
tions of the nation which the re-
publican administration and the re-
publican congress have not shown
the faintest capacity to deal with.
with public attention thus TO-
cussed on Newberryism, the IN
justices, inequities, monopolies and
n - I,.l inf1tTfaH nnnn
the Amerncan people by the most
unsound, monstrou7
and profiteering tariff bill ever
enacted, might be overlooked or
until after the election.
Such scandals as the mid
night raid on the bureau of printing
and engraving, the Teapot Dome
oil reserve, the Daugherty case, the
Nat Goldsteinism might be viewed
less critically with Secretary Hughes
in the center of the stage, singing
the praises of Newberry and chant
ing the virtues of Newberryism.
Conclusions of Senators.
Against this Newberry pro-
nouncement of Secretary Hughes
- democrats will match solemn
official verdict of a republican
Judge and republican jury in Mich
gan to the effect that in morals,
and under the law as it then eX-
sted. and also the facts, Newberry
and his associates were guilty oil
the corrupt practice act |
and in the language of Senator
Borah the amount expended was
to and did corruptly, al
'ect the result of the primary elec-
.lon.' Against this utterance OF
Secretary Hughes democrats |
will also match the opposing judl-
,ial conclusions of the ablest repub- |
lean senators who gave all the facts
md the law of the entire case the
most painstaking investigation
Among these senators were Borah.
Kenyon, Norris, Jones, Of Washing
on; Sutherland and Norbeck.
IF Secretary Hughes does NOT
inow that the Newberry seat in the
United States senate was bought ne
$ the only intelligent person IN
who does not know tha'
act" '