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Senator Moses viewed the Raskob document and said: "I have no recollection of ever having seen any manuscript of that character. I might add, however, that I believe any person who would resort to rifling the mails would not hesitate to commit a forgery...
...sent to Zeb Vance Walser. First he said he had sent out "so much material" he really could not recall which was which. Then he said it might have been anti-Tammany or anti-saloon material.* He did not deny that it was "viciously anti-Catholic," as Mr. Raskob said it was. But he roared: "Who is this John J. Raskob that seems so agitated because a Southern Democrat has written something which I thought to be 'hot stuff'? He is the chairman . . . whose St. Louis headquarters have been busy for weeks flooding certain sections of the country...
...Raskob's ethical sense is so fine and his general sensibilities so readily aroused, it might be worth while to ask how it happens that he has my mail. Did he himself rifle the mails or did some of his Tammany stool-pigeons...
...Raskob replied by releasing the "red hot stuff." He put on display in Manhattan a collection of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a quotation from Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky that Smith would "destroy the churches and schools...
Other of Dr. Work's subordinates said that all of Mr. Raskob's evidence was "framed up." Democrats were indignant and the episode was one of the bitterest in a bitter campaign. Said the Republican Chicago Tribune (echoed by its pro-Smith Manhattan satellite, The Daily News...