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Show I ITHE WHISPERING CAM PA LGN I I Explanation w N THE last days of the campaign the Democrats have mailed throughout the length and breadth of the United States a circular cir-cular stating that Warren G. Harding, the Republican nominee for president, is of negro ancestry. Originally the circular, which contains a spurious genealogy or the Harding family, was distributed extensively in the border states in the hope that it would prevent the impending break in the hitherto solid south. In Utah and stales of the north there were malicious whisperings whisper-ings for weeks, but when this was not effective the Democrats printed the circulars and sent them out in the mails. These circulars have been widely distributed in Salt Lake City and have appeared in every part of the state in a despcraie eleventh hour attempt to turn the tide that is sweeping on to an overwhelming Republican victory. In no presidential campaign has there been a descent to such depths of infamy. The falsity of the genealogy has been demonstrated demon-strated by the New Ydk Times, the leading Democratic papc; of the country, which, in its issue of yesterday, published ihc true genealogy of the Harding family and an eclitoro! denouncing ihc attempt to win the election by such mean3. The true genealogy, according to a telegram from Scott C Bone, director of publicity of the Republican National Committee, to the state chairman of Utah, shows that Senator Harding is of uY; I best and purest i evolutional y stock. From Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Com-I Com-I mittce, the following telegram has been received: I "The 'Whispering Campaign' so insidiously and wick- jj cdly carried on by conscienceless Democratic partisans is now out into the light and condemned by the press of the W country, Democratic and Republican newspapers alike. J "Originating in Ohio, with no other foundation for it i than the vaporing of a miserable person cf unbalanced mind than the vaporings of a miserable person of unbalanced mind, it was designedly and systematically spread from date to state, at the cost of many thousands of dollars j ' "That the author of die calumny has not borne this expense is too obvious for comment. "The Washington correspondent of a large Demo-I Demo-I cratic newspaper in the east today volunteered the informa tion that, to his personal knowledge, the lying stuff, in printed, mimeographed or typewritten form, was in evidence evi-dence on Governor Cox's special train ruid was disseminated I by a young man closely connected with the Ohio Demo- cratic state committee. "The sordid facts speak for themselves. In all the annals of American politics, there is nothing approaching I this infamous chaptei, which must arouse the righteous j wrath and indignation of every right-thinking man and woman, the country over. I "To the everlasting credit of American journalism, no Democratic newspaper of consequence has been so j debased as to lend itself to such campaign methods or j touch the slander. "It has been more than a 'Whispering Campaign.' It has been a sinister plot and conspiracy. The overwhelming election of Harding and Coolidge will be the answer to such campaign tactics. WILL H. HAYS." Circulars containing the false genealogy have been sent into Utah from various points in the cast. The circulars distributed most extensively in Utah are postmarked Salt Lake City and bear the j name of the "Calvary Church (Colored)." Of course, neither the pastor nor the members of Calvary church had anything to do with j the production and distribution of the circulars. I 1 do not know what effect these circulars would have if allowed to go uniefuted. but 1 consider it my duty as Republican state chair man to set the facts before the people with the utmost candor and allow them to form their own opinions of such political practices. WILLIAM SPRY, Chairman, V Republican State Committee. I ( I I EDITORIAL I ( .... I The New York Times, one of the foremost Democratic newspapers in the country, in an editorial published yesterday (Sunday) morning, scathingly condemns Democratic campaign tactics. The Times scores opponents op-ponents of Senator Harding for circularizing the nation with the letter written by Professor William Estabrook Chancellor giving the spurious genealogy cf the Harding family. The Timcj' editorial follows: j h 4 HE campaign methods resorted to by certain opponents cf Senator Harding m H Ohio who by innuendo and persona! defamation have sought to do him injury H call for universal denunciation Thcv are properly described by the trustees of Wooster H College as unworthy of the country, and (hey acted with sound judgment in demanding H the resignation of a member of their faculty who seems to be chiefly responsible for F J the attack. 3 "The Ohio Republican state committee fitly characterizes it as malicious propa- sM ganda. The issues of the campaign are important, they are lofty, and vital to the welfare of the people; they have deeply stirred the public interest. A resort to personal attacks ' M of this nature tends to make the strife of poliiks ignoble. No denunciation of these met! fl ods could be too severe nor can the public indignation be too heavily visted upon the originators of iiie odious propaganda" mm We denounce wholly as dispicafck the eleventh hour attempt to prejudice El the voters of the country against Senator Harding by the private circulation of wM vile and slanderous reports respecting his ancestry. II W. Mont Ferry Arthur W. Moulton E. 0. Howard H George Sutherland Reed Smoot L H. Farnsworth I pfj Joseph Glass Frank P Gallagher Joseph L. Rawlins Hj Heber M. Wells John C. Lynch Ogden Hiles Hj C. P. Overfield E, W. Kelly W. S. McCornick R George A. Snow Otto E. Asbridge George T. Ode!! MM F. S. Murphy F. C. Richmond C. B. Hawley I H S. W. Morrison Joseph Lippman Wesley E. King James P. Casey Lester D. Freed R. M. Cross ; OF SALT LAKE CITY Kg W, H. Wattis J U. Eldredge, Jr. jfl Charles H. Barton J. R. Ward Mr I. N. Pierce S. G. Dye BP A. T. Wright George Halverson H OF OGDEN H |