Show GO G. G O. O P. P Dying Hard Shifts Blame of Defeat to Butler Chester Rowell Finds New Excuse for California 5 F Failure By United Pre Press to to Th The telegram NEW YORK Dec 9 In In an interview interview interview inter inter- view published here hero today Rowell chairman of the California Republican committee charged that the defeat of Charles Evans Hughes in California was directly attributable to Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia university It is charged that Dr Butlers Butler's advice to William II H. Crocker the California campaign man regarding the ethics of Hughes' Hughes visit to California resulted In the upset which swung the state to Wil Wilson Wilon on Rowell also charged that Butler misrepresented misrepresented misrepresented mis mis- represented the facts in the case of California telling the national committee commit commit- tee in New York that California certaInly certainly was for Hughes and needed no extra work At that time Rowell is quoted as assayIng assaying assaying saying Wo Vo were crying and shriekIng shrieking shriek shriek- Ing to national headquarters that California Call Call- fornia was doubtful and that we needed needed needed need need- ed speakers and other help to hold the tile state In line Rowell told of a visit by Dr Butler to Crocker in which the latter listened to the advice of Dr Butler who he says told Crocker Crockr it would be practically practically cally Immoral for California to send to the senate a man roan of Governor Hiram Johnsons Johnson's two party caliber and urged him to prevent a meeting between Hughes Hug and Johnson |