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NEWBERRY
THEIR BIG ISSUE
70 Divert Public Attention
Erom Many Other Issues Still
More Damaging.
rGHES SELECTED FOR
THIS DELICATE TASK
buId Check Rising Tide of In
Against Administra-
ions Blunders.
IA. rh. AssocIated Pressl

rsv The Associated Press)
l4SHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Chair-
Cordel Hull of the democratic ma
q, committee replied in a state
N tonight to the letter of Secretary
t5es on he seating of Senator New
ry Of Michigan. declaring that the
or yss a. plan of republican leaders
r7la "Ncwberryism the paramount
e" Of the campaign as the only
ms ~of diverting public attention
many other issues still more
Ns~ing." Secretary Hughes in his
viii h was made public last
b, .y the republican national COM
.a declared that Senator Newber-
,qd been wrongly and most un-
ly convicted"
Hughes Selected
his statement Nlr. Hull said:
rbc national republican leaders
decided to make Newberryism
,aramount issue in the present ma
II CONGRESSIONAL campaign, and have
Onward Secretary Hughes as the
.1oy to state the case and offer
.Ebtof defense. In selecting Secre-
Hughes for this delicate and dan
-ns task. republican leaders have
l. mistake. Secretary Hughes
nly a civil lawyer, whereas this
.nal administration needs the
b. criminal lawyer to be iouho
.Ageud it this year.
IN the desperate effort to check the
Nc .ido Of popular indignation due
,to fact that the eighteen months
.,,l or this administration and its
,~rose contains more elements OF
n1,oto failure than any on all thelr
.3ocovsors. Republican leaders nave
chli~ed to single out one issue
make it paramount as the only
nc Of diverting public attention
many other issues deemed stlll
q damaging. 1t was evidently de-
.t.a, Secretary Hughes might
|, ,a4izo Newberryism in such an
y tive Wav as to draw attentloh
In .aa tremendously destructive Ell
Ia nj H.. republican Industrial panic
lF-~v-2e. and from the confused, Iop-
uncertain and dcmoralized state
ii mess Industrial economic and
\, coalitions of the nation which
e,,uhliran administration and the
bfds AN congress have not shown
Il In1I WI n
Might Overlook Tariff
Wa public attention thus focused
yeN ,erryism, the injustices, iniqui-
no qopoHes, and robberies about
lie inf Ictod upon the American peo-
By tn o most unscieniific, unsound,
|rstrun7 ana Drofiteering tariff bill
|s- enacted. might be overlooked or
'rm.pd until after the election.
|b 81! syrdals as the midnight raid on
bu,e "a ef printing and engraving
TcH-b bot Dome Oil reserve, the
ghcrt v case, and Nat Goldstein
bit he viewed less critically with
getary Hughes in the center of he
sa. siu ,ilg the praise of Newberry
chant u the virtues of Newberry- .
Against ahis Newberry pronounce
m Of s. crctary Hughes, democrats
match the solemn official verdict
a ropubl can judge and republican
y In Mic, hTan to the effect that in
'als and under the law as it then
Hed and also the facts, Newberry
q his asso, 6ntes were guilty OF vio-
'g the Cm1rul2t Practices Act, and
'Ae Ianguage g CIf Senator Borah, the
funt eypcn( ted was intended to and
coruptly AZ sct the result OF the
.nary elcctic n. Against this utter =
y n Secret JLrt- Hughes, democrats
. also match: 4he opposing judicial
''usons Of tie ablest republican
'lors who 9 ave all the facts and
law Of the entire case the most
In'aEng lnvo litigation. Among these
.''ors We're i urah, Kenyon, Norris,
j" o. Washa gton, Sutherland and
@5eok
Nawberny Seat Bought.
u Secretary IL 6ehes does not know
the Nowhorrv seat in the United
es s"aoto was + bought, he is the
lao@ieont nor, sen in America who
o'' know that fact"