WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Raskin Statement on the 75th Anniversary of Senator Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience * "Margaret Chase Smith said the 1950 Senate had become a 'rendezvous for vilification, for selfish political gain at the sacrifice of individual reputations and national unity.' "She railed against the McCarthyite character assassination of the day, but also against the flight from substantive pol  more