sentences:  Several of his articles attacked Polish priest Stanisław Maciejewicz, a deputy of the Polish Legislative Sejm.Maciejewicz accused Tumas of libel and initiated a case in the ecclesiastical court of the Diocese of Vilnius, but later abandoned it.In early 1920, Antanas Smetona invited Tumas to Kaunas to become editor of "Tauta" (Nation) published by the Party of National Progress.