The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-05
BOGUS INTERVIEW WITH DEWEY.


Gordon Benefits yellow journal, the
New York Herald, sends to that paper
from Trieste purported interview with
Admiral Dewey in which the hero of
Manila is made to speak of Germany
in an unfriendly manner. The Herald
representative alleges that he had con-
versation with Dewey on board the
Olympia, and that when he remarked
that Germany had intended to interfere
with his operations in Manila bay,
Dewey said: y
Eyes Prince Henry, of Prussia, is
man of the type of his brother, the
German emperor"
Germany policy is to prevent other
powers from obtaining what she cannot
acquire herself"
England is our natural ally, and diff
ferences such as those about the Vene-
zuelan boundary and the fisheries do not
interfere with a afriendly understanding
existing between the two nations. Our
next war will be with Germany"
The interview appeared so improbable
that the Washington officials discredited
it, and not one out OF thousand Ameri-
cans believed for a moment that Ad-
miral Dewey gave utterance to such ex-
pressions. 1t has since been ascertained
that the Herald man is physician who
occasionally makes little money on the
side by interviewing notable personages
for the yellow journals of the
American metropolis. He says that
Dewey was unaware of the fact that he
was interviewing him for publication.
When Dewey himself was asked con-
corning the truth or falsity of the inter
view, he remarked in dignifed way
that he never afirms or denies anything
imputed to him by the newspapers. But
the New York Herald, with character
istic audacity, comes out editorially and
insists that the conversation actually
took place as reported.
We have always considered Admiral
Dewey as a man of great tact and dis
cretion. When other naval officials were
talking at random, Dewey preserved a
commendable silence. Captain Coghlan
made a fool Of himself at banquet in
New York by singing in maudlin
voice:
-s::':
der Kaiser of dis Fatherland,
Und Colt on high all dings command,
We two, ach! Don't you understand?
Myself-und Gott!'
The Germans good-naturedly laughed
at the antics of the ill-mannered Anglo
Saxon and thought the incident too silly
for comment in the government organs.
They preferred to treat the clustering
captain of the Raleigh with silent con-
tempt. Though Herr Won Mumm, the
German charge d'affaires at Washing
ton, called upon Secretary Hay the
morning after the publication of the pur-
ported interviews with Dewey, neither
the admiral's name nor the expressions
attributed to him were mentioned by
either of them. i,
1t is not the first time that fictitious
interviews have appeared in American
papers concerning the unfriendly atti-
tude of Germany toward the United
States. At the outbreak OF the Spanish
American war, an unprincipled and lying
reporter furnished the Associated Press
a manufactured interview with the late
Prince Bismarck, who promptly repudi-
ated the uttcrances ascribed to him in
the New York World. The London and
New York papers have lost no oppor-
tunity of misrepresenting Germany in
the interest of an Anglo-American alli-
ance. 1t was said that Dewey and Won
Diederichs had nearly had clash in
Manila bay. But when Dewey was pro-
NOTED from commodore to the highest
rank in the navy, one Of the first foreign