Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-22
CHARGES
!. SMOKE SCREEN
FROM HUGHES
Democratic Chairman
Says Republicans Are
Out to Cover Faults.
Thinks Civil Lawyer
Not Equal to Case
of Senator Newberry.

Washington, Aug. 21.-Chairmar
Cordell Hull of the democratic nationa
committee replied in statement Mon
day night to the letter of Secretary
Hughes on the seating of Senator New.
berry of Michigan, declaring that the
letter was a plan Of republican leaders
to make ':Newberryism the paramount
issue" Of the campaign as q means OF
diverting public attention from many
other issues still more damaging .
Secretary Hughes in his letter, made
public Sunday night by the republican
national committee, declared that Sen
ator Newberry 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 at
tOrney to state the case and offer the
chief defense. In selecting Secretary
Hughes for this delicate and dangerous
task, republican leaders have made a
mistake. Secretary Hughes is only a
civil lawyer, whereas this national ad-
ministration needs the ablest criminal
lawyers to be found to defend it this
year.
Says Effort Desperate
I'm a desperate effort to check the
rising tide of popular Indignation due
to the fact that the 18-months record
Of this administration and congress
contains more elements of complete
failure than any or all their predeces-
sOrs, republican leaders have felt
obliged to single out this one issue and
make 1t paramount, as the only means
Of diverting public attention from many
issues still more damaging. 1t was evi-
IDENTIFY decided that Secretary Hughes
=. might dramatize the Newberry
case IN such an attractive way as to
draw attention away from the de-
structive effects of the republican in
dustrial panic of 1921-19 and from
the confused, lop- sided, uncertain and
demoralized state of business. indus
trial, economic and social conditions of
the nation which the republican admin
istration and the republican congress
have not shown the faintest capacity
to deal with.
With public attention thus focused
on Newberrylsm, the injustices. inequi-
ties, monopoiies and robberies about to
be inflicted upon the American people
oy the most unscientific, unsound,
monstrous and profiteering tariff bill
ever enacted, might be overlooked or
nlnimized until after the election. /
Such scandals as the midnight raid on
the bureau Of printing and engraving.
The Teapot dome oil reserve. the
Oaugherty case and Nat Goldsteinism
night be viewed less critically with
Secretary Hughes in the center of the
stage, singing the praise of Newberry
md chanting the virtues of New !
Leave Senator to Michigan
Against this Newberry pronounce
nent of Secretary Hughes . demo-
rats will match solemn official verdict |
# republican judge and republican |
ury In Michigan to the effect that in !
morals and under the law as it then |
.xisted and also the facts, Newberry |
md his associates were guilty of vio-
atlng the corrupt practice act and, in !
he language of Senator Borah, the
mount expended was intended to and |
id corruptly affect the result of the /
Urinary election. Against this utter
nee Of Secretary Hughes demo-
rats will also match the opposing
JUDICIAL conclusions of the ablest SEN
tors who gave all the facts and the
aw OF the entire case, the most pains
aking investigation. Among these
enators were Borah, Kenyon, Norris. !,
ones of Washington, Sutherland and |,
'orbeck. :. If Secretary Hughes
oes not know that the Newberry sent
the United States senate was bought, Il
e is the only intelligent person in |,
Imerlca who does not know that fact