The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-09
Thought kaiser's Statements
To Former Richmond Man
Would Have Led to Great
Complications.
PRESSURE FROM GERMAN
LEGATION IN WASHINGTON
Plates for Widely Advertised
Article Destroyed - Con-
tents of Interview Will New
er Be Known.

William Bayard Hale, a native of
this city and now one of the associate
Gently went to Berlin, on an assign
ment given him by the Century, and
Kaiser. This interview had been
widely advertised by the Century to
comes off the press about the 25th of
this month
Today the announcement is made
that this interview will not be pub
lished; that the middle of last week
the printers of the Century magazine
removed the printed signatures" con-
tanning the interview from the partial
ly bound piles of magazines and these
signature" were carefully burned as
well as all proof sheets, while the
plates were melted up.
Just what the War Lord of Germany
told the former Richmond young man
his friends think, it must have been
such that the Kaiser and his ministers
feared it's publication would rouse an
other whirlwind of indignation against
the German monarch. 1t is thought
that the interview was suppressed 1T
the earnest request Of the German for
eign office, made through the German
Washington legation
Many versions are given regarding
what the contents of the interview
were. One has it President Roosevelt
was highly lauded and commended for
his greater navy policy. Another has
it that he spoke of the president and
Of American affairs in such a manner
that would have aroused as great a
storm of public wrath in this country
as has been aroused in Great Britain
by the recent interview given the Kai-
ser in which he stated he had outlined d
the English campaign against the
Beers
Handy With Roasts.
One of the men who worked on the
interview recalled that in it the Kaiser
tooh MI. Ildic piettS "eil oNel ihc
world.
THE hottest think l heard about
he said. was that il roasted the Vati-
can and the Catholics generally.
"Mr. Hale, it seems, had been a
minister, and the Emperor referred to
this and to his recent book on a visit
to the White House. The Kaiser said
!, h,+ t,ln
that Roosevelt was a great man whom
he hoped to meet some day.
LAS ! get it he also spoke of the
presidents action in sending the fleet
to the far East as an act of statesman
ship. He spoke of the president S de
mand for a great navy and larger
army, declaring both to be but means
toward peace.
"Of course the emperor spoke of his
friendship for the United States. He
also referred to anti-German feeling
in other countries. probably me aning
England. As I recollect it. there was
no serious attack on Great Britain"
Others did not recall so much as
above quoted, but the one fact that
| impre ssed all who read the article was
what they were pleased to term 1.-The
| roast of the pope
| William Bayard Hale is brother OF
! Alton Hale, cashier of the First Nat
| ional bank of this city. Before he was
! twenty-one years of age he left here
and went east where he studied for
| the ministry. A short time after be
/ ing ordained he left the ministry and
| began an active literary career. meet
/ ing with exceptional success. He has
| been connected with the Cosmopolitan
magazine and a few years ago was
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