The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-10-02
SEES RASKOB PLOT
To SANDER HOOVER
TlLSON LISTS 81 INSTANCES OF
SUBSIDIZED DEFAMATION
BY DEMOCRATIC BUREAU

Continuous SANDER of President
Hoover over a period of twelve
months by the publicity bureau If
the Democratic National Commit
tee. headed by Charles Nicholson,
a former Washington eorrespon-
dent is charged by Representa-
tives John Q. Tilson of Connee-
ticut, Republican floor leader IN
the House of Representatives and
Eastern director of the National
| Republican Congressional Commit
tee, in a statement made public
recently at committee headquart-
ers in the Hotel Roosevelt.
Mr.. Tilson cites, with his per-
sonal comment, twenty-seven state
ments issued by the Democratic
publicity bureau in Washington
during a period beginning Sept.
Is last and ending Aug. % of this
year. in all of which, he declares
President Hoover and his admin
istration were misrepresented. He
declares the output of the bureau
Certainly supports the charge that
the business of this bureau Is mis-
representation and that we have
no parallel in American history of
a person being paid, set up in an
office and issuing such libelous
transformation about the Presi-
dent of the United States
Mr.. Tilson refers to Mr.. Michel
son as John J. Raskob's person
4 ally underwritten propaganda.
|, Mr.. Raskob is chairman of the
/ Democratic National Committee.
The head of the Republican Con-
Il gressional Committee points out
that, while Mr. Nicholson has as.
serted that the output of his bur-
| eau is free from misrepresenta-
ton. he has not denied statements
| :. occurring in a recent article con-
| tributed to Scribner's Magazine by
| Frank Kent, Washington CORES
| pondent of Baltimore newspaper,
that "the goal set for him by Mr..
| Raskob was to smear Hoover and
his administration to obscure ev-
J cry Hoover achievement and to put
: Mr.. Hoover in bad with the Amer
lean people. That is what he (the
head of the bureau) is there for
and all he is there for.
Lists Alleged Misrepresentation
Il Mr.. Nicholson, Mr.. Tilson says,
has asked for bill of particulars,
and the list of items is given in
. response to this. Here is the list:
Sept. Is, neutrality-suspicious.
| the President as responsible for
lobbyists which swarm Washing
ton."
Dec. IS, 1929-Insinuates that
the President looks with favor
upon ''the corruption of the cleo
s. ton of Senators"
Dec. %, 1929-States that "it
= Al Smith were in the White Ho-
use, and his name had appeared
( in the Lakin- Shattuck (sugal
! lobby correspondence, impeach-
. ment proceedings would have
I been discussed before now"
I Dec. %, 1929-Insinuates that
Z the President was venally connec-
I ted with the sugar lobby, and YET
I the Democratic chairman of The
! Senate Lobby Committee on Jan
( 6, 1880, in reporting to the Sen
I ate and referring to the Presi
( dent, said: "Your committee finds
{ no improperly nor anything OPP.
( en- to censure or criticism" Nc
{ retraction of this foul libel by
( the Raskob bureau has beer
( made.
! Oct. %, 929-Misrepresents
I the President as desiring to abol
{ ish the bipartisan character o.
< the Tariff Commission and APP
I. point all Republicans. It's bipar
I tisan character was insisted upo1
I. in several messages sent to Con
: gress by the President.
/. April %, 1930-Represents thu
I President and Republicans as en-
! deavoring to obtain "the unbridle,
Z right to raise or lower tariff
]. rate as it suits his whim or inter
; est" and becomes excited over TIL
- prospect of such tyranny whicl
= would "enable him to destroy on
section of the country to the ad
vantage of another" yet the Pr
esident advocated at all time
that this authority be in tn
hands of a bipartisan commits
sion with a limitation in rat
changes of so percent of the du
ties fixed by Congress.
Recalls Tariff Bill Changes
Sept. 23,1929-Insinuates tina
the President is in collision TO
unlimited revision of the tariff
yet when the measure was pass
ed it was found that Congress
had revised only 27 per cent o
it's $500 items.
Oct. %, 1929-Insinuates tina