NYE COMMITTEE WARNS PRESS ON LIBEL CHARGES
NYE COMMITTEE WARNS PRESS ON LIBEL CHARGES Mrs. McCormick May Face Suits For False Statements Against Senate Body, Report | CHICAGO, III.—Libel suits may be brought against Mrs. Ruth Hanna...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick and her supporters on the ground that they have been makinf I false and malicious statements concern-I ing the Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures, according to reports current, here...
...Having been absent from home for the past three months, I have received all uiy mall here at once...
...We dislike honoring these charges by repeating our denials, but Mrs...
...Induced by Mrs...
...I am enclosing $1.50...
...Since its publication in local newspapers, no comment or reply has been made by Mrs...
...Do not stop sending The Progressive, and the next time I write I will enclose $3.00...
...The statement, which was signed by four of the five members of the Nye commitee, has aroused much speculation as to what action will be taken b\ the committee against Mrs...
...Referring to these charges of Mrs...
...No member of this committee whose name is affixed hereto has been in any way responsible for such acts as have been committed...
...The newspapers which have been induced to print Mrs...
...The Senate Committee, of which Sen Nye of North Dakota is chairman, recently notified the newspapers of the country that further publication of the charges' of Mrs...
...McCormick has the effrontery to continue to make statements, not only false in fact but which she herself must know to be false...
...McCormick in apparent disregard of the libel laws...
...McCormick, the statement declares, "We have said and we repeat that these charges are totally and utterly false...
...28)— I would like to say that the primary sure went very well...
...I am much interested In the La Follette family and hope that some day Sen...
...McCormick against the committee would be regarded ai "malicious and willful...
...Mccormick's $252,000 primary campaign and the November campaigns In Illinois...
...But I would also like to say that the ballot ought to lie explained In the paper if this can be done, for many people don't know just how to go at It, especially whom to put on the ballot and how.—Henry Btftm...
...The Nye committee recently closed its healings on the Illinois primary elections until after the November elections, wnen It is scheduled to reopen the investigation of Mrs...
...McCormick and her supporters...
...McCorniick's ]i!>els are now expressly notified that any future repetition of them will be regarded as willful and malicious libel, for the publication of which they have no justitication, but must assume individual responsibility, and this notification is given without waiving any right of the committee or any individual member or employee of it to bring action for what has already been said and published of a libelous or slanderous nature...
...The statement, as published here, declares that the newspapers...
...McCormick or other Republican leaders tc the statement...
...McCormlck's well organized publicity, have misrepresented the news of the committee's investigation of the Illinois primary, and has printed false statements by Mrs...
...La Follette, Jr., will occupy the White House.—Bart C. Buckley, WAUKESHA, Wto, Sept...
...INTERESTED IN LA FOLLETTES (CHANDLER, Alaska, Aug...
...Mccormick's charges that members of the Senate committee put detectives to work to break into her private premises, to ransack hei personal correspondence, to pilfer hei files and records and to tap telephone wires as "false and libelous...
...The statement terms Mrs...
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