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Show ASKS PIPERS TO Democratic Chairman Calls Republican Papers to Give Publicity NEW YORK , Oct. 7. George White, chairman of the Democratic national committee who returned today from a conference with Governor Cox an-noum an-noum .1 thai he had written to i" H. Hays, urging him to do his utmost to obtain wide publicity for the covenant cove-nant of the league of nations. In tho Inter" st of truth, which the rlgbti Du.s a rtainly have no reason to tear." Mr White requested Mr Ha.-. tu urge .-ill newspapers to print the text of the covenant in full within the next few days." 'There are so many more Republican Repub-lican than I 'i-ino rat 1c newspapers In the United States that your request would s' l tire the widi publicltv which Is desirable," added Mr. White, t K ELL'S REMARK Mr. White Also issued this statement state-ment : "I noticed that wide publicity, in the east at any rate, was accorded two da- - an mt.-i i. . nun Majoi Benedict Crosvell of Cleveland, In fav- nr rtf Dan. Im II ,. r ,1 ; n v. ; I . v uwwiwi iiuiuiiik i nm ;i iiian until recently assistant secretary of war under this administration should take such a stand was dwelt upon lh the dispatches as a sensational fact "Out in Ohio they do nol find the fact sensational Major Crewel Is a lifelong Republican, one of the man Whom Secretary Baker appointed to Office With many other distinguished Republicans, he served his country in the war. and he is for his partv for the -impb- reason thai he m ver It ft it. 'The Dutch have taken Holland.' .Major Crowell ln his declaration says that the great issue this year is an efficient administration He ought io know all about the efiicii in v or In-ffli In-ffli ency of the war department, be-cause be-cause he was responsibly concerned with it for several years." REPUBLICAN AGREES Referring to Mr. White s letter asking ask-ing Mr. Hays to use his influence to distribute the league covenant text. Scott Bone, director of Republican publicity here, tonight Issued the fl-lwlng fl-lwlng statement. "Concurrentlj with the issuance of the Republican campaign xl book, a pamphlet was Issued containing tho full text of 'the league of nations covenant cove-nant with analysis and comment. This pamphlet has had a much wider circulation cir-culation than the lext book. "President Wilson's league of nations na-tions covenant has been printed and reprinted by all the larger newspapers ol the country. I urge ev.-r Republican Republi-can newspaper to carry the text of article ar-ticle 10 on the first na'ge until election day. I hope this will be done." on |