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Show jKUU DERIDES PLEA OF HUGHES Republicajis Trying tc Divert Attention, Democrats Assert. ! WASHINGTON Aup H, Chair-' Chair-' man Cordell Hull of tho Democratic ! national committee replied In a stats-ment stats-ment Monday to the letter of Secr-- tary Hughes on the seating of Senator Newberry, of Michigan, declaring that I he letter was a plan of Republican leaders to make "Newberrylsxn the paramount Issue" of the campaign as M 6 only means of diverting public attention from "many othor Issues -till more damaging" Secretary IliiK'lies In his letter, made public Sunday nipht by the Republican national na-tional committee, declared that Sena- .(i niM-ri) ijiu oeen sirungiy ana I most unjustly convicted." I In his statement. Mr. Hull said: I j "The national Republican leaders II hove decided to make Newberrylsm I 1 the paramount Issue In the present national congressional campaign and have put forward Secretary Huphes as att..rn. ,( t . slat- the case and of- , for tho chief defense. in selecting Becretary Hughes for this delicate and dangerous task, Republican leaders ! have made a mistake. Secretary Hughes Is only a clll lawyer, wher --OS --OS tills national administration needs j the ablest criminal lawj'rs to be found to defend It this year "SCANDALS" RECOUNTED "In a desperate effort to check the I rlsinrr tide of popular Indignation due ; to the fact that the 18 months' rec j ord of this administration and Its con-! con-! contains more elements of com plete failure than any or all their lr . ilrr r.-.sors, Ri publican leaders hav e felt obliged to single out this one is. BUS and make It paramount as th only means of diverting public attention at-tention from many other issues deem-1 'i still more damping it was evl-, evl-, dently decided that Secretary Hugh-?s mlghl dramatise Newberrylsm in such I an attractive way as to draw atten-tlon atten-tlon AWay from tho tremendously destructive de-structive . ffects of the R.-publlcan In-du In-du trial panl of lil'l-:'2 and from the confused, lop-sided, uncertain and j demoralized state of business Indua-j Indua-j trial, economic and social conditions Of thfl nation which the Republican i administration and the Republican I congress have not shown the faintest I capacity to deal Nith "With public attention thus focused focus-ed on Newberry. the injustices, iniquities, monopolies, and robberies j about to be Inflicted upon the American Ameri-can people by the most unscientific, i I unsound, monstrous and profiteering i tariff bill ever , enacted, might be 0v- I erlooked or minimized until after the election. Such scandals as the mid-night mid-night raid on the bureau of printing and engraving, the Teapot Dome oil i reserve, the Daugherty (rase., and Nat j Gohlstelnlom might be viewed lc3s I critically with Secretary Hughes in' the center of the stage, singing the prolsa of Newberry and chanting the! I virtues of Newberrvlsm. ASSERTS SEAT BOUGHT "A;:alnst this Newberry pronounce-I pronounce-I ment of Secretary Hughes Democrats win maicn uic solemn olticlal verdict I of a Republican Judge and Republican Jury in Michigan to the effect that In morals, and under the law as it th n existed, and also the facts, Newberry and his associates wero puilty of violating vio-lating the corrupt practice act, anJ In the language of Senator Borah 'the amount expended was Intended to and did corruptly, affect tho rcrult of the primary election.' Against this Utttrancs Of Secretary Hughes Democrats Demo-crats will also match the opposing Judicial conclusions of the ablest Republican Re-publican senators who gave all tho facts and the law of the entire case the most painstaking Investigation Among these senators were Borah, Kenyon, Norris, Jones of Washington, Sutherland and Norbeck. "If Secretary Hughes does not know that tho Newberry seat In the Unit-id States senate was bought he Is tho only intelligent person In America who does not know that fact." |