Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1915 — Peace Advocates Applaud Attack On Hesperian. [ARTICLE]

Peace Advocates Applaud Attack On Hesperian.

Announcement of the torpedoing of the Hesperian by a German submarine was received by the peace advocates. President Wilson was criticised, the English press in the United States was branded as trying to embroil the nation in war, and steel and money interests were denounced bitterly for the same reason at the opening of the national convention of the Friends of Peace atMedinah Temple Sunday afternoon. There were about 2,000 at the meeting. Danger of a break between Germany and the United States had not yet passed, it is asserted. Just before the meeting adjourned Henry Weissmann, of New York, arose and said that he had Just been handed an Associated Press dispatch which verified his suspicions that newspaper reports that the United States government had just won a great diplomatic vicory in the controversy with Germany was untrue. There was a scattering of applause throughout the house and even a few cheers.