Fake News, November 1920

Several readers of The Republican have sent to this office copies of an editorial extract from an alleged journal called the "National Catholic Register," widely circulated through the mails during this campaign. The animus of the article is obviously to arouse religious feeling by intimating that the Wilson administration has been undr Catholic and Vatican control. For the informtion of those who have sought light, we may now say that Chairman White of the Democratic national committee reports that no such journal as the "National Catholic Register" exists and that the article so widely circulated for political effect is forgery. --Springfield Republican (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Nov. 1, 1920)