Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
DEMOCRATIC Chief
REPLIES To HUGHES

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man Cordell Hull, of the Democratic
national committe, replied in a
statement Monday night to the letter
of Secretary Hughes on the seating
of Senator Newberry, Of Michigan,
declaring that the letter was a plan
Of Republican leaders to make New
berryism the paramount issue" of
the campaign as the only means of
diverting public attention from many
other issues still more damaging.
Secretary Hughes in his letter, which
was made public last night by the
Republican national committee, de-
clared that Senator Newberry Id
been "wrongfully and most unjust
ly convicted"
In his statement. Mr.. Hull said:
1.-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, Re-
publican leaders have made a mis-
take. Secretary Hughes is only
civil lawyer, while this administra-
ton needs the ablest criminal law
yers to be found to defend it this
year.
Desperate Effort
I'm a desperate effort to check
the rising tide Of popular indigna-
ton due to the fact that the eight
cen months record Of this adj
ministration and it's congress con-
tains more elements Of complete
failure than any or all of their
predecessors, Republican leaders
have felt obliged to single out this
ons issue and make it paramount
as the only means of diverting pub
lie attention from many other is
sues deemed still more DANA ging.
ut was evidently decided that
Secretary Hughes might dramatic
Newberryism in such an attactive
way as to draw attention away from
the tremendously destructive effects
of the Republican Industrial panic
Of 1922, and from the confused,
lopsided, uncertain and demoralized
state Of business, industrial, eco
nomic and social cnditions of the
nation which the Republican admin
istration and the Republican con-
gress have not shown the faintest
capacity to deal with.
with public attention thus
focused on Newberryism, the injus-
tees, iniquities, monopolies and
robberies about to be inflicted upon
the American people by the most un-
scientific, unsound, monstrous and
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might be overlooked or minimized
until after the election. Such scan
dals as the midnight raid on the
bureau of printing and engraving,
'the Teapot Dome oil reserve" the
Daugherty case and Nat Goldstein-
ism might be viewed less critically
with Secretary Hughes in the center
of the stage, singing the praise of
Newberry and chanting the virtues
Of Newberryism.
Attack on Hughes
Against this Newberry pronounce
ment against Secretary Hughes,
Democrats will match the solemn
official verdict Of a Republican judge
and Republican jury in Michigan to
the effect that in morals, and under
the law as it then existed and also
the facts, Newberry and his as
sociates were guilty Of violating the
corrupt practice act, and in the
language Of Senator Borah the
amount expended was intended
to and did corruptly affect
the result Of the primary election
Against this utterance Of Secre-
tary Hughes Democrats will also
match the opposing judicial conclu-
sions of the ablest Republican sena-
tors who gave all the facts and the
law of the entire case the most
painstaking investigation. Among
these senators were Borah, Kenyon,
Norris, Jones. of Washington;
Sutherland and Norbeck.
eff Secretary Hughes does not
know that the Newberry seat in the
United States senate was bought
he is the only intelligent person
in America who does not know that
fact"