Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 5

. was connected with the sugar lobby, . RASKOBIS ACCUSED OFLIBELING HOOVER Tilson Cites 28 Instances in! Which He Claims President | Was Maligned. €3ecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 2.—Repre- gentative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican leader of the House and; chairman of the Republican Congres- sional Committee, cited 28 instances| yesterday in which he accuses the pub- icity bureau of the National Democratic Committee in Washington of misrep- renting President Hoover. He had found these, he. said, after examining only a part of the mimeographed siate- ments issued by that bureau. Representative Tilson’s statement was in reply to a recent suggestion from John J. Raskob, chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, that if the Republicans felt the Democratic pub- licity department had maligned the President they should cite the in- stances. Mr. Tilson laid all of what he characterized as a campaign of mis- statement and misrepresentation at the door of Mr. Raskob, who, he said, has subsidized the Democratic publicity bu- reau, which is headed by Charles Michaelson, formerly Washington corre- spondent of the New York World. | Michaelson Also Accused. Mr. Michaelson, therefore, also came in for a part of Representative Til- gon’s criticism. His statement adds another chapter to a controversy which n when an articie by Frank Kent, itical writer of the Baltimore Sun, the current issue of Scribner's gazine, asserted that Mr. Raskob had hired Mr. Michaelson “to smear Hoover and the administration”; “to obscure every Hoover achievement” and “to put Hoover in bad with the Ameri- can people.” Representative Tilson pointed out that Mr. Raskob had not denied those assertions. Among instances cited by Mr. Tilson were assertions that the President was responsible for lobbyists in Washing- ton, that he looked with favor on cor- ruption in senatorial elections, that he that the President was in collusion for unlimited revision of the tariff, that President Hoover brought about the stock market crash and that the Presi- dent created bread lines: Tilson’s Statement. Mr. Tilson’s statement follows: “Mr. John J. Raskob's personally un- derwritten propagandist, Mr. Michael- son, has asked publicly for a bill of particulars of the misrepresentation made by his agency. He boldly asserts that there is no misrepresentation in the propaganda which he is and has been issuing, but makes no denial of Mr. Prank Kent's statement in the Sep- tember issue of Scribner’s Magazine that the goal set for him by Mr. Ras- kob was ‘to smear Hoover and the ad- ministration’; ‘to obscure every Hoover achievément’ and ‘to put Hoover in bad’ with the American people. That is what he (head of the bureau) is there for and all he is there for. “A perusal of only part of the mimeo- md statements which._have been from Mr. Raskob’s subsidized bureau through the mouths of pliable :gt.luon certainly supports the charge t the business of this bureau is mis- representation, and that we have no parallel in American history of a per- son being paid, set up in office and is- suing such _libelous misinformation about the President of the United States. “In proof of this fact, I instance the dates of a few of the many such state- ments on a few of the subjects they have treated: ‘September 15, 1920—Misrepresents the President as responsible for ‘lobby- ists that swarm Washington." “December 18, 1929—Insinuates that | the President looks with favor upon ‘the corruption of the election of Senators.” ' Cites Senate Report. “December 23, 1929—81-('s that ‘if Al Smith were in the White House and his name had appeared in the Lakin- Shattuck (sugar lobby) correspondence impeachment_ proceedings .wculd have been discussed before now.’ “December 23, 1929—Insinuates that the President was venally connected ! with the sugar lobby, and yet the Dem- ocratic chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee on January 6, 1930, in re- porting to the Senate and referring to the President, sald: ‘Your committee finds no impropriety nor anything open to censure or criticism.’ No retraction of this foul libel by the Raskob bureau has been made. “October 23, 1929—Misrepresents the President as desiring to abolish the bi- partisan character of the Tariff Com- mission and appoint all Republicans. Its bi-partisan character was insisted upon in several messages sent to Con- gress by the President. “April 22,1930—Represents the Pres- ident and Republicans as endeavoring to obtain ‘the unbridled right to raise or lower a tariff rate as it suits his whim or interest’ and becomes excited over the prospect of such tyranny, which would ‘enable him to destroy one section of the country to the advantage of another,’ yet the President advocated at all times that this authority be in the hands of a bi-partisan commission, with a limitation in rate changes of ;2 per cent of the duties fixed by Con- ess. Action on Tariff Defended. “September 23, 1929—Insinuates that the President is in collusion for unlim- ited revision of the tariff, yet when the measure was passed it was found that Congress had revised only 27 per cent of its 3,300 items. _ “October 22, 1929—Insinuates that the President intends to ask Congress to abandon the tariff bill. The Pres- ident made no such suggestion. “October 31, 1929—Represents the President as responsible for Senate de- lays in passing the tariff bill “November 25, 1929—Repeats the same charge, although it was obvious to the whole country that the opposi- tion delayed the bill for six months, thus contributing to ecopomic depres- sion and business uncertainty. “August 10, 1930—Attacks the Presi- dent for delay in appointing the Tariff Commission, and asserts he had a year to select its members, whereas « the Tariff Commission bill, giving this au- thority, was then only six weeks old. The question of whether there would be a commission, and what ‘its charac- ter would be, was ir doubt to the very last ‘minute, as it was the last thing settled by .the conference between the two houses of Congress. “October 20, 1929—Insinuates the President brought about the stock market crash. “October 29, 1920—Implies the Presi- dent and Republican party were Te- sponsible for collapse in stock market. “October 30, 1929—Insinuates the President was responsible for stock speculation and consequent losses of innocent ple. “December 29, 1929—Implies _the President responsible for stock market pan! “May 8, 1930—Reverses all this snd says ‘President of course did not bring about the panic.’ “June 1, 1930—Again asserts the President responsible for stock market crash, insinuating he brought about soup kitchens and bread lines. “June 6, 1930—Implies that the President assured that ‘the interests which so long have fattened on the public should be confirmed 1n their privileges, and given further opportu- nity to exploit the public. This, the secret agreement, made in the little smoke-filled back rooms.’ “March 17, 1930—Asserts that the President is allled with ‘predatory interests.” No Retraction Made. “January 6, 1930—Asserts the Presi- dent is completing a card index of Fed- eral employes for sinister political pur- s, No retraction was made when this infamous statement was disproved. “.garch 28, 1930—Sneered at ‘abortive arms limitation’ yet later laid claim of credit to the Democratic leader in the Senate for the major portion of this great accomplishment. March 28, 1930—States ‘Hoover ad- ministration’ _utterly bankrupt—only three major bills having been passed, farm relief, Teapportionment, tax re- duction. Yet the tariff, inland water- ways, highways, prison reform, law en- forcement, reorganization | { HEARST ORDERED TO LEAVE FRANCE; ARRIVES IN LONDON (Continued Prom First Page.) great Prench nation—that America had saved it once during the war and I would save it ‘again by leaving.” HEARST'S STATEMENT. NEW YORK. September 2 (#)—The International News Service today printed the following dispatch from its London | office: “William Randolph Mearst issued the following statement here today: “‘I have no complaint to make. The officials were extremely polite. They said I was an enemy of France and a danger in their midst. They made me feel quite important. “ “They said 1 could stay in France a little while longer if I desired; that they would take a chance on nothing disastrous happening to the republic. “‘But I told them that I did not want to take the responsibility of en- dangering the great French nation; that America had saved it once during the war and I would save it again by leaving. “‘Furthermore, I was like the man who was told that he was going blind and who said he did not mind, as he had seen everything anyhow. Had Seen Everything. “‘Similarly, I had seen everything in Prance, including some very interesting governmental perfermances. ““Then I asked Mr. Tardieu's emis- of POWEr|sgry to express to Mr. Tardieu my Commission, reorganization of Veterans' | jmmense admiration at his amazing Bureau and many others were on their | alertness in protecting France from the way and subsequently passed. “April 14, 1930—Criticized the Presi- | dent for appointing fact-finding and negotiating commissions, although it was well known that President Wilson had appointed scores of such commis- sions during his tenure of office. “May, 1930—Claims falsely that the Republican members of the House are turning against the President. “May 8, 1930—Represents the Presi- dent as garbling figures on extent of unemployment. Proved Accurate by Census. “August, 1930—Repeats misrepresen- tations that faculty employment sta- tistics were used in April, and no re- traction was made when these esti- mates subsequently were proven ac- curate by the census. “July 24, 1930—Accuses the President of misrepresenting estimates of the year's Federal expenditure at $4.,203,- 000,000, implying that expenditures would exceed $5,000,000,000, with an ‘unparalleled increase in Federal ap- propriations” When it was evident from the Treasury that the President was correct no retraction was made. “August 22, 1930—Misrepresents the ‘Hoover advinistration’ as forecasting abandonment of tax reduction. No such forecast was made. Quite the contrary. “These are but a few statements of the scurrilous misrepresentations. There are more, and they will be produced if Mr. Raskob wishes to have his subsi- dized bureau of defamation further ventilated. “It might also be mentioned that all this constitutes & fine travesty by Mr. Raskob upon a great Democratic politi- cal party supposed to be appealing to the American people on great public issues.” S S HER 48 Germany now ranks as the third Jargest market for American exports. peril of invasion and we parted with quite elaborate politeness. “‘It was a little bit foolish, but ex- tremely French. “‘The reason for the strained rela- tions—to use a proper diplomatic term— was the publication of the secret Anglo- French treaty two years ago by che Hearst newspapers, which upset some international “apple carts,” but informed the American people; and of course that being the reason, the French govern- ment was entirely right in ievling its | attack at me, and quite wrong in its action toward Mr. Horan, who was cnly my agent. “ think, however, that the general attitude of the Hearst press in opposing the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations, or any protective pacts to involve our country in the quar- rels of European powers, is mainly re- sponsible. “‘Also, there might have been some slight irritation at the occasional inti- mations in our papers that France, LOW being the richest nation in the world, might use some of the German indem- nity to pay her honest debts to America, especially because if it had not bean for America she would now ne paying in- demnity instead of recelving it. “‘If beingya competent journalist and a loyal American makes a man persona non grata in France, I think I can en- dure the situation without loss of sleep. “‘In fact, the whole affair reminds me of the story of the rather effeminate young man who went to call on his best girl and found her in the arms of an- other young fellow. ““The effeminate youth went into the hall, took up his successful rival's um- brella, broke it and said: “Now I hope it rains!” “‘You see, for the French national policy of “reverge” to be completely successful, we will have to have rain.” (Signed) “¢“WILLTAM RANDOLPH HEARTS.' " Fruits and Vegetables in Our Home-Coming Sale We are holding this sale as a measure of appreciation for your patronage of the past year. ~ Peaches Peaches It has been our ears fo-give you a ennsylvania Peaches. Peaches custom for a number of sale on Adams County We are distributing to our stores today and tomorrow five cars o these fancy peaches. Many of you are familiar with the exceptionally fine quality of these &enches. The peacl h crop of Virginia and orth of Virginia this year was mostly a failure—perhaps not over 20 per cent of the normal crop. those of you who Prices may seem high; but to contemplate putting up peaches, this is the opportune time to supply your wants. bushel, half-bushel these fancy Adams You will find them priced in both and by the pound. See County Peaches in the nearest “SANITARY” or PIGGLY WIGGLY. ~ALSO OPERATIN See the many values we are offering in all Sanitary and Piggly Wiggly stores this week. . New York State Pears and Damsons " Our stores are also supplied with New York State Bartlett Pears and Damsons. The quality . of this fruit is the very best. Owing to the warm, dry weather, the season this year is running one to two weeks earlier. You will find these pears and damsons priced so reason- able this year that you will probably want to purchase twice the usual amount. PEARS and DAMSONS 4=25¢ You will find all of our stores well stocked with all fruits and vegetables ob- tainable at this season of the year. One would expect a scarcity of these things, due to the extreme drought; but in most instances this is not the case. While local- grown products are extremely scarce, from nearby territory within trucking dis- tance we have been able to take care of your entire wants. You will find our stores stocked with fresh beans, beets, cabbage, caulifiower, peas, peppers, squash, tomatoes, honeydews, Persian melons, cooking and eating apples, white and yellow onions, yello ity obtainable. Visit your nearest tomorrow, and inspect the wonderful offerings they will have. reasonable. Rambo Apples No better apples grow than Summer Rambos, for stewing, pies, jelly, etc. We have generously supplied our stores with these fine cooking apples, and are pricing them most reasonable at 5 LBS. WASHINGTON FOR 25 CENTS. State Italian w sweets and Nancy Halls. All of the very finest qual- SANITARY or PIGGLY WIGGLY today or Prices most Concord Grapes Large baskets of Concord Grapes from Delaware, exceptionally good quality, 69 CENTS PER BASKET. . Per Basket 69c Values in Our Bl Home-Coming Sale “SANICO” ICE CREAM Delicious ice cream on sale 100 conveniently located “SANICO” BREAD | A variety to please every | | taste . .. baked in our own | modern bakery. 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