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Show BOTH SIDES HE BUSTJH FIGHT Cummins Accuses Republicans Repub-licans of Making War a Sectional Issue. I Fess Replies to Tumulty's Letter, Quoting Lincoln and McKinley. By ALBERT E. BRYAN, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON", Oct. 29. Important political po-litical developments today at the national capital, from which both parties are directing di-recting the contest for the control of congress con-gress may be summarized as follows: 1 Postmaster General Burleson, the third member of the cabinet to publicly back up the president's appeal for support sup-port at the polls, issued a .statement in which he announces that Rodman Wana-maker Wana-maker of Philadelphia, one of the lead-ins lead-ins Republicans of the nation, believes In wholehearted support of the war administration. admin-istration. Charge Sectional Issue. 2 Acting Chairman Homer S. Cummins of the Democratic national committee, flays the Republicans for making, as he charges, a sectional issue out of the war casualties by claiming the loss of more soldiers from tbe Republican states of the north and east than from the Democratic Demo-cratic southern states. 3 Chairman Fess of the Republican national na-tional congressional committee replied to Secretary Tumulty's letter quoting Lincoln Lin-coln and McKinley, stating the citations quoted by the president's secretary fail to justify the president's course and repeating re-peating the charge that no president in history has made such a request of the American electorate. 4 Senator Gerry, chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee commit-tee and Acting' Chairman Cummins both issue brief replies to the Republican criticisms criti-cisms of the president's course in the present campaign. Disturbs Atmosphere. The charges and counter-charges served to keep the political atmosphere of Washington Wash-ington in a state of constant disturbance. disturb-ance. At the headquarters of the campaign cam-paign managers of both parties there were whisperings of still further and more sensational sen-sational developments before the actual termination of the campaign. Forced to abondon public meetings in most sections of the country by reason of the influenza epidemic, the party leaders lead-ers who are directing the political stiug-gle stiug-gle predict that the last word will not be spoken until the hcur of going to press of the moi ning newspapers of election |