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Show WILD CHARGES ins AROUSE WROTH Republicans Blame Democrats For Attack; George White Answers. SALT LAKE. Nov 1 Propaganda in ih- form of af mimeographed letter. fttLackiftS tJi.. .in. c-stry of Warren C. Harding Republican candidate for pre.i.liit and containing In" iifan.ous and scurriloo. chaftSfea lh.it h blood Is minted with the -irj r d! a negro have bf-n receivi .1 ) f'Jeasi thre-persons thre-persons In t'tah. according j Inf rnia-iioii rnia-iioii received vi-h'.i rdaK iy William -srv. Republican ti:eVapfairmaii. The circular is .entitled "Genealogi' of Our Candidate as Furnished by Ejrcfefcsor William v:. Chancellor of Wooeter t)hlo, ' and Is designed to show that th candidate's nr.- it -grandfather and great-grandmother were black. i li 1 LLOR i l st ::i. Professor Chancellor has since been compelled to resign because be bad been charged with t'Oing fh' nioim scrit of the Infamous propaganda and had circulated the scurrilous charges against senator Harding. Thf trpstees ol the college. Republican and Dexno- . 1. I Ik.. I mJ ..III,. lUL VL ill" UUU I U illinir uiianimously repudiated I'rofessor Chancellor a "utterly unworthy of our college and country " tie w;ui dismissed from superin tendency ten-dency of the public schools ol Sash-mgtoh, Sash-mgtoh, D. C, In l'JOA by the unanimous vote of the board of education becaue of -'inefficiency and Incompetency, lack of Judgment, tact and mental, poise, insubordination, libelling the' District of Columbia education system.! destroying dt ciplim , ridiculing the commission and antagonizing the school board'' at that time. ONDEMHTED i I RYU Mi Rl The issuing of these circulars with reference to Senator Hardihg has been condemned everywhere throughout the country It is regardGevcry where as despicable ponduot and reprehensible. I The complete ancestry of Senator Har- j ding is the finest possible stock andi Uie ' barges are, of course, false aud are known to be falsf by those responsible respon-sible for circulating the propaganda i The following sketch of Senator Usrding8 ancestry is furnished by the Daughters of tho American Revolution: Revolu-tion: "In the Meeral sketches of Senator Harding's ancestry that have been published from time to time his tela tlonshlp to the Harding families of the AVyoming 'ail-y. Pennsylvania,, has been emphasised to the exclusion of ih,-distinguished ih,-distinguished services of his own ini-m ini-m dlate ancestors. Haine A bra hum Harding, from whom the enator directly di-rectly descended served several years In the state troops from Orange county, coun-ty, New York, during the revolution feome years later he removed to Monroe Mon-roe county. New York. His son Amos, with hts wife, 1'hoebe Tripp, a descendant descen-dant ol the well-known Tripp family of Rhode island, settled in Richmond, County, Ohio The senators grc-at-gmndfatheT and Krannfathtr married. respectively, Elisabeth Madison and Mary Ann Crawford, descendants ofi well-known Vliginlu families. "One his mother's side the senator j has equally distinguished ancestry, sh being the daughter of Isaac Lickerson and 'harlt m Kirk. The DlckerSOHt were of the Monmouth county, New Jerse. family which found Its way through Pennsylvania to Ohio. The father, Isaac honiaa Dlckerson, was a. Methodist minister, whose record in rhut Church Is 'shining light' during '.Ik- early days of Methodism in Ohio. The senator's grandmother, Charity Van Kirk, was the daughter of Will-lam Will-lam Van Kirk who. with si brothers, fought In the patriotic army of the revolution. The Van Kirk family Indeed, In-deed, like Dlckereon. Harding, Craw- unlinued on Page i H Wild Charges Alio?) I B Harding Aras Wn.'h (Continued i 1 1 m H lord and other allied families, renjler- H ed valuable Mtviccs to tle country fl during the colonial and revolutionary. H "Senator Harding's sister. Mlsa Abl- 1 Mll Harding. Marlon, Ohio, hag ben ' H for several yearn in and valliefl B member Of the- ljaugh.cis (be H American Revolution." OOP OJ tlH I imc H The circular reflecting on Mr. Har- H 'uuig'n ancestry. oi which have B B 'Icnralogy of our candidate an fur- m bisHed b Prof. Willi. mi K Chancellor, H , TVooster, Unlverslt Wooster. Ohio Hj J Geo. Tyron Harding 1 Great grand- Hf lather (black). Ann H grandmother (black); Chaa. A. Har-I H -ding, grandfather (black i. .vlarv H JCrawioi ), grandmnlh i (whit H Tyron Harding 2, father I mulatto) H Warren Hardling (uonj H Give the- colored rac chance. Cal- H vary church. i Mr. Spry last night Issued and slgn- H ed the following Mian-mcnl a.- a result H of the distribution Of the circular. H "Circulars containing the (al.se gen- Hj aloR have been Into Ctah from H Various points in the oast, The circu? H lara distributed extensively In H 'Utah are post-marked Salt Lake City H wind bear the of lee "Calvarj . 1 1. urch (colored) " Of course, neither the pastor nor the members of 'ni- carj Chlireh had urythrng to rio with, Mh production and dlstrilmtion of tho i circulars. "I do not know what effect these i ulrculara would havp if allows to go imrefuted, but l consider it my duty as Republican slate chairman to set I the lucts befor- the people with the iitmo.si oindor and allow them to form their own opinions of such political practices." A i LtdAW SI'KV Oh ilrman itcpubliCan State Committee j U IIIM'I HIM. CAMI'.(i NEW YORK Mow. 1. Scott T Bone director Of publicity of the Republican national committee, issued 'his statement state-ment Surida s . 111.- whispering eufnpuign' 80 in-slduousl) in-slduousl) and Wickedly carried on bf' ei'ivcleiu-flHss In-moeralle pa rt is.i nrj. Is now out Into the- Ugh! ,m'j comlemned )y the pre:- of the country, Democratic Democra-tic and Republican newspaper alike. "Originating in Ohio, with no other foundation for It than rh vaporing', of a miserable person of unbalanced mind, l WHS d ilgnedl) and systemal-Icall systemal-Icall spread from state state, n. the c-'ist of niaii 'h(tusAnd of dollars. "That the author of the calumny ha not borne this expense !m too obvious for common:. "The Wash' nston correspondi nt of a large Democratic newspaper here In i th! CSSt today volunteered the information infor-mation that, to hla personal knowi-edge knowi-edge the lying stuff, printed, mimeographed mimeo-graphed or typewritten 'was in evi-dence evi-dence on Governor Cox's special train and ilisseniln Htcd by a young man closely connected with the Ohio Democratic Demo-cratic state committee. "The sordid fa' is Speak fur tliem-ises. tliem-ises. in all ihe annals of American pplltlps, theii- is nothing approaching this Infamous chapter Which must armi't- the rlgbteOUS wrath ami Indlg-i Indlg-i ;ion of every right think. ng man uiii! woman Ihe country over. "To the everlasting credit of American Ameri-can iournaiir.ni no Democratic news-paper news-paper of consequence has been so de-liaeed de-liaeed us to lend Itself to suob eam-paln eam-paln methods or touch the slander. "It has been more than a 'WhlspST-' 'WhlspST-' 'ng campaign.' It has been a sinister pic ' and conapli icy." A HlTl m 1KICS m N i i. NEW YORK. N'oy. I - -fJeorg. White ltlflhhl.H .,f tl.A .IUal iOmmittee issued a statemem in reply to an earlier declaration by Scott T. , Bone public! I director of the Republican Repub-lican n.itionai organisation denying that the "whispering campaign." against Senator Harding was ever car-1 rlcd on by one connected with the traveling1 retinue of Governor Cox. Mr. I Whits'! statement follows: "The licmo'Tatic candidates and their national committee have conducted con-ducted the presidential contesi bp high plane Those who arc seeking to i drag It down to the level of a con-1 "ible'a race by publishing gossip rhich h;.s been circulated for vejrs in' iilo by Republicans In their prellmln-; j t eonvontlon and then seek by inference infer-ence to night down the Democratic parte with i:. Will fall. 'II is perfectly obvious to every one ; M t the eleventh hour action of parti-kii parti-kii Republican newspapers in widely circulating this story about Senator BardAg paved the "way suspiciously for the statement Issued by the Republican Repub-lican national committee tonight. We Lhave fought a clean ftght we have from the beginning spurned any con-i con-i t with personal gossip and We shall not aubthil to being charged, openly or Inferentlallly, with It. 'Only one assertion from Republi-n Republi-n headquarters requires a direct an- awe' end that is the statement that the llarJIn; story was 'disseminated on Governor Cox's special train.' Governor Gov-ernor Cox assured nif over the telephone tele-phone from Dayton toniirht thut. this infamous accusation la without k shred : of truth " |