Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1916 — NAVY LEAGUE CALLS DANIELS A “DREYFUS” [ARTICLE]

NAVY LEAGUE CALLS DANIELS A “DREYFUS”

Speakers Also Denounce Hay. Bill As Inadequate and a Menace to ' the Country.

Washington, April 12. —Sessions of the annual convention of the Navy ‘League of the {United States were featured today by attacks on Secretary Daniels because of his refusal to permit Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske to read a paper at the convention, and a denunciation of the Hay army bill by S. Stanwood Menkin, president of the National Security League. Robert M. Thompson, president of the Navy League, called the Navy Department’s policy narrow and assailed the secretary for what he termed a suppression of free speech. Henry Reuterdahl declared the department’s attitude was but a reflection of the attitude of the white house and said that “every administration must have its Dreyfus.”