Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 225, 2 August 1918 — Page 2

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DR. HALE DENIES EDITING SPEECH FOR DERNBERG

Says Relationship to Germany r is Like That of Lawyer to . Accused Criminal. ASHLAND, N. II.. Aug. 2 ."The utatement that the speech which Dr. Bernard Dernburg, former Imperial German Colonial Minister, delivered at Cleveland on May 8, 1915, was edited' by me is true, said Dr. William Hayard Hale today. It was likewise edited by at least a thousand other American newspaper editors and copyreaders. I know precisely as much about that speech and dealt with It -precisely as did the head of every copy desk the length and breadth of the land that day. And I rely upon tho Intelligence, common sense, and fair play instinct of the editors of the United States to see to it that an ignorant and silly attack upon the char- ." acter of an innocent man 13 broungt to an Instant bait." Seen at his summer home, "Wood--lawn," Holderness, today. Dr. Hale, with vltrollc indignation, denounced the attempt to make him responsible for Dernburg's speech regarding the ' Lusltania sinking. "It was a shock, a horror, a grief . that can never be forgotten," said Mr. , Jlale. "The suggestion that I ever "wrote a word Justifying it is preposterous. The fiction seems to have or

iginated with a certain visitor at the Office of Deputy Attorney General iBecker of New York. 1 "According to press stories purporting to emenate from Becker's office, io mysterious visitor testified that I ''had 'carefully edited and subdated' the "Dernburg speech, 'the subheads being rlen with Dr. Hale's own hand.' ho witness further -avered that I jhad done this at 10 a. m., that the copy mad been sent 'in takes' to the American Press Association, concluding at fl p. m., and that Dernburg had delivered tho speech at Cleveland that night. ., Calls the Story a Myth. "From this alleged statement by .;thl3 allogrd witness has been built "'the myth that Dernburg did not write the speech, that I wrote it and telegraphed it to him at Cleveland for delivery. What actually happened was Pimply this: On or before leaving for Ms engflgement at Cleveland, Dernburg sent to tho editorial offices of -the German Information Service, a

Dr. William Bayard Sale. ernments temporarily alienated, but now firm friend3 of the United States." Dr. Hale declined to name the governments to which he had previously been adviser, but reference to "Who's Who," shows that he possesses decorations from Japan, Belgium, and Venezuela. It Is also known that several years ago Dr. Hale received a sword of honor and an autograph letter of thanks from the Mikado in recognition of work for the maintenance of peace between America and Japan. Conditions of His Service. "Yes," said Dr. Hale, "I have always tried to help keep peace and avoid war, and that Is all there is to it. I am only sorry as sorry, perhaps, as President Wilson must be that peace with Germany was not possible. "My known fondness for Japan makes most remarkable the inuendoes respecting the anti-Japanese tendencies of the German information service while under my direction. The fact is that when I was asked to advise for the German Press Bureau I made a half dozen conditions and made them imperatively. The first was that no use should ever be attempted to be made of my acquaintance with the President. As a matter of fact, I have enjoyed no private, personal access to Mr. Wilson for several years, but I feared it might be imagined I did. I also required that no attacks should be made upon the Wilson administration. There were days when Colonel Roosevelt's friends were extremely active and but why hark back to this now? "And mot emphatically did I stipulate that no advantage shoud ever be

flimsy' of the fpeech he expected to i u.1 l" "t1"1"" T ' '. ' . nnnnrpfl that T wniim not. nnlv r.nn-

sider myself free from my contract,

deliver. Ho undoubtedly and unques- j

-tlonahly sent copies of the same 'flimsy to The Associated Press. The United Press, The International News and other press p.gencioo, as well as to all the New York papers. ." " I have no special recollection of the matter, but, as the speech was an ; Important' piece of news, I probably , did personally 'edit' it, instead of entrusting it to subordinates, that is to ' pay, I punctuated and paragraphed it, according to American newspaper usage, probably sketched tho headlines and wrote the appropriate crosshead of the news sheet sent out by the German Information Service daily to a thousand newspapers. In other words, I did exactly and precisely whet some editor or copy reader in every press agency and newspaper office in the United States did that day vhn he received the report of the i.peech. "The idea that I had any prior know ledgo as to what Dernburg would say at Cleveland is as absurd as the sug- - gestion that I was aware of the place and the time of the next earthquake. I never saw Dernburg and never com- ' munlcated with him after the sinking of the Lusltania. The historical legend that I tflpsrnphod him his speech la easily susceptible of proof or disproof. Tho date was May S. 1915. Let the files of the two telegraph companies be examined back if anybody lias money to waste on an enterprise so silly." In answer to questions' regarding tho Gt'i nan Infromalion Scrxice, Mr. Ualu responded readily The German Information Service. "Why. certainly," he said, "it is perfectly well known by 'everybody, , except apparently Assistant Attorney General Becker of New York, that during one year, 1914-1915, I was adviser, practically director, of the German Information Service. This was a bureau organization to present openly and avowedly the German side of the question, upon which the country had not then made up its mind. The chief 'medium was a daily sheet appearance like the first page of a metropolitan newspaper, sent to practically every newspaper in the United States. "During that time of waiting for tho people's decision clippings from the daily news sheet of the German Information Service were wrlcomed, clipped and used by the press from Maine to Southern California, from Oregon to Florida. And every article was candidly presented as an argument on the German side of the case. "I am not, as one paper the other day described me, the self-confessed head of tho German Information Service. I am proud of having been its head. I glory in the patriotic work I then performed. It is assuredly a muse of national rejoicing that all that It was possible to do to present the German argument, before it was rejected, was done. It would have been must unfortunate if the German -case, such as it was, had been allowed . to go by default. "Every criminal, as well as every -honest man, is entitled to an attorney, and the work of an attorney is not only legitimate: it is more, it is a necessary requirement of justice. If an . accused man has no counsel the law assigns him a counsel, whose business , it is to do the best he can for his 1 unfortunate client. What would be thought among a group of decent law- ; yers of an attempt to shoot or strangle . a practitioner who had done the best .. be could for an unfortunate client who had done what in common humanity he found it was possible to do '.for the under dog in a scrap? J "This, however," continued Dr. Hale, ;"is the first case in which, in any international dispute, I have found my.aelt on the side which was unable to present the convincing argument. What I did for Germany three years 'ago I had aJready done for other gov-

but would instantly take the other side, if German influence attempted to interfere in the relations of the United States and Japan, of the honesty of whose intentions I had convincing reason to be assured. An inspection of the daily sheet will show that under my direction no single unkind word was ever said of Japan. "As for the fascinating suggestion that there was any secrecy about the thing, well, let a reasoning human being ask himseir what chance of secrecy could surround a bureau occupying five or six rooms on Madison Square, Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-fifth street, open all day long, sending out hundreds of dollars' worth of mail weekly, and doing its best to wish its stuff on a thousand newspapers." "Why was not your name arried on the daily sheet, Mr. Hale?" "Simply because Mr. Claussen, who had long been the valued publicity director of the Hamburg-American Line, had inaugurated the bureau, and when

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tive work far better than I could possibly have done it. I supervised the preparation of the stuff; Mr. Claussen got it out. Ridicules Idea of Secrecy. , "I may add," said Mr. Hale, "that I edited, wrote and signed at least half a dozen books and brochures. Very sensibly did Mr. Becker inquire of his mysterious witness: "You say Dr. Hale signed his name to this? Don't you think the fact that Dr. Hale allowed his name to be used was inconsistent with the theory that he was making a secret of his work?" "I feel, as an American citizen of old English lineage," Dr. Hale continued, "that I have cause to resent the action of A. L. Becker, Assistant Attorney General of New York, who has given out to the press in sensational form the unsupported declaration of an annonymous witness, without allowing me an opportunity to confront him, If he exists, or to refute his allegations. I made the long trip from New Hampshire to New York voluntarily last week in order to place at Becker's disposal any Information in my possession. I really knew nothing material. In a twohour conversation not a word was said, not a question asked about this Dernburg speech, but a couple of days after I left he or his assistants filled

the papers with this yarn.

"The question arises whether the

office of the Assistant District Attorney General of the people of the State of New York Is an establishment for the prosecution of crimes against the law or a bureau for defaming American citizens in the interest of Mr. Becker's political ambitions. This is the third experience I have had with this overzealous gentleman who has tried in vain to implicate me with Bolo Pasha, the purchase of The Mail, and now with this Dernburg thing. "I have asked counsel to advise me whether the statement that I 'wrote' or 'edited' the Dernburg speech, taken in connection with the accompanying headlines and text printed in various papers and purporting to issue from the office of A. L. Becker, is as actionable as it is false. If counsel advises that these allegations, conspicuously displayed, being untrue, are

defamatory and libelous, appropriate

Sugar Card System Adopted at Eaton EATON, O., Aug. 2. Sale of sugar in Preble county will be conducted under a card system, owing to the growing acute condition of the local sugar stores. Adoption of the card system followed a meeting of the county food administration and grocerymen of the county held here Wednesday night. Tho cards are being printed and will be issued at the earliest moment possible, through the county food administration. Plan of distributing the cards calls for a representative of the food administration in each town and village in the county, who will act as distributor. The cards will bear a coupon, which will be detached from the card when issued and the stub sent here to the food administration, which will adopt an index system of record calculated to detect any violations, as the cards will be frequently checked up.

tax rates. The visiting schedule is: August 5, Jackson township, at high school, Campbellstown, 8 a. m.; Jefferson township high school, New Paris, 10:30 a m.; Monroe township, high school, West Manchester, 1:30 p. m.; Harrison township, high school. Lewisburg, 3:30 p. m.; August 6, Twin and Lanier townships, high school, West Alexandria, 9:00 a. m.; Gratis township, high school, Gratis village, 1:00 p.m.; August 7, Somers township, high school, Camden, 9 a. m.; Israel township, high school, Fairhaven, 1-00 p.m. Dixon township, township house, 3:00 p. m.; August 8, Gasper township, township house, 9:00 a. m.; Washington township, auditor's office, Eaton, 1:30 p. m.

LIBERTY, IND.

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anybody's goat." "Mr. Hale, there Is another subject on which you might enlighten us," the interviewer said. "How about the Kaiser and your famous surpressed interview with him?" Dr. Hale smiled. "The Kaiser is not a subject," hs said. "But this much I am willing to say: President Wilson Is fully informed, of all that was said at that Interview, and, furthermore, the suppressed article has been placed at the president's disposition for any use he might like to make of it. Its publication now, however, would not help to win the war."

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