Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-26

(Continued From First Page,
Nation-wide radio address, by Simeon
b. Tess, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, who, without
naming Mr.. Nicholson, stressed once
more the alleged false statements"
issued against the Republican party and
President Hoover from high Democratic
ofaCial sources.
Mr.. Nicholson, being the source
through which all these sources oper-
ate, and being q figure long familiar
IN the press gallery OF the National
In it as q correspondent of important
newspapers, was readily Identified BY
his visitors as being in all probability
the very man to whom Mr.. Wood was
aliuding in his public statement OF last
Sunday when he said that "a Mr..
Nicholson" had been employed at q
large salary by John j. Raskoo to de-
veiop misrepresentation OF Presiaent
Hoover In every quarter OF the United
states"
Nicholson Questioned.
sIs it true" inquired the boldest OF
Mr.. Michelson's iraterviewers. tnat you
we're instructed by Mr.. Raskob, in his
cauacjtv as chairman of the Democratic
National COMMITTEES, TO msrepresent the
Mr. Michelson's aspect was thereupon
nrie of panied innocence and OF patient
and tolerant surprise. He answered:
isTt Is that could claim to be mis-
represented. Through my little once
here, which. as you see: Is very small
and not In any way the magnificent
abode accredited to me by Frank Kent
IN his article in Scribner's Magazine,
i have offered to the press certain oD-
servations day by day from the pens
~ distinguished Democratic statesmen.
These observations the press, in fecog-
milton OF their obvious merits, has puo'
liehed--or has failed 70 publish. Inc
decision as to whether TO publish them
or not to publish them has lain with
ynu gentlemen and your editors. I
have been only the funnel through
which they have been transmitted 70
Won. II There are going TO be any libel
suits. fear that you viii be involved.
I DENY. however, that any libel suits
can happen. I hereby respectfully ask
MFR. Tilson and Mr.. Wood and MT
Fess to point out any errors OF TACT
made by the eminent and responsible
Democratic members Of the upper
House and Lower House Of the Con-
kress, or by the officers Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, who have
c0nveyed their public statements TO the
press across my desk. Tt has been my
earnest endeavor to free those state
YYients OF all deviations from exactitude.
n any such deviations should unhappily
have occurred, which am convinced
Is impossible, want Mr.. Iilson ano
Mr.. Wood and Mr.. Tess to let me know
what they are. In the interim I pro-
test against being made the object OF
MISREPRESENTATION by the Republican
publicity machine"
Won't BE Quoted.
."Is IL true, however" Mr.. Nicholson
vas asked, that you are the basic cause
or all the troubles that MFR. Hoover may
have had in the line of making himself
understood and appreciated, as YOU
famous fellow Democrat Frank Kent
asserts in his magazine article about
YOU, and that the statements which
YOU hand us from Democratic states
men are In fact, as Mr.. Kent claims
written by you yourself?"
.On these points Mr.. Nicholson de.
ctned to be quoted and intimated thai
ne was so unaccustomed to being Z
major political issue that he was not
vet able to discuss himself with thu
1rnmodesty which perhaps he would
With further experience In public life
He left his visitors to draw the conclu-
sion that whatever siInilarities of Eng
lish style might have been apparen
throughout the multitudinous statement
issued by him from Democratic authori'
ties were to be attributed TO the identi'
.csiities of thought and Of conviction
prevailing throughout his party. HI
concluded the interview by reiterating:
THE Republican party Is now at las
meeting our statements, but 1t Is meet
ing them with a mere general denial
In a scientific spirit of disintereste'
search for truth, and on behalf of tn
Democratic leaders who have now beer
80 cruelty maligned, await the Repub
1ican specifications Of rebuttal."