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Show HARDING AND WILSON'S LE ; TERS DIFFE I WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.- C 1 trusting President Harding's le written for use in the New Me: scnatifrlal contest wllth tho Wll letter asking for election of n 13 ocratlc Congress in 1918, tho publican Publicity Association e In a statement issued today thro tho President of that organlzat Hon. Jonathan Ilnurno, Jr.,i "Senator Pat Harrison, of Mis slppl, who RCPins to bo tho new lc or of tho Democrats In Congr charges that President Harding's tcr setting forth, tho accompl ments of tho administration Is s liar in effect to tho letter wl President Wilson sent out on ovo of tho election in 1018 nslf for tho return of a Democratic (1 gross. "But there aro several Impoi differences. Lot if bo admitted Harding's letter was written to tho senatorial election In New Ico. It was a political letter. 1 just such a letter as any Prcal might properly wrlto in ordli times. "Dut tho Wilson lottcr was written in ordinary tlmw. Prcsli Wilson bad but a fow weeks be issuod a declaration that 'politic adJqVuncd Wo wero In tho m jof war and bo bad called upon citizens to laiy aside partisanship j unite in the effort to win. Itcp cans acquiesced In this, but onl ova of election when it was pre! ably too late fojr tho Republll to reply, Wlson Issued his lnfarl |