The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-26
WALSH FAtS|f|EO
| RECORD DECLARES
]. D. ROCKEFELLER
ssues Warm Reply to Chair
man of The Industrial Re-
lations Commission
Denies He Dictated
Governor S Letters
Accuses Walsh of Injustice and
Of Deliberate Falsehood.
Relates What He Declares
To Be The Facts


New York, April 25.--Johu y Rookie
feIler, Jr., gave out the following state
ment today
In the newspapers of Saturday
morning there appeared statement
from Mr. Frank T. " aish, chairman
OF the United States Commission on
Industrial Relations, purporting TO be
based upon information contained In
letters supplied to the commission by
my associates and myself
TN our desire 20 give 10 the public
all OF the facts in regard 10 the Colo
RADIO situation we have waived our
constitutional rights protecting prl-
.Nate correspondence and have placed
ali material asked for at the dispo~
sit3eu Of the commission. Had Mr..
Natsh's sole desire been to bring out
TIE truth he would in cases where he
| found the correspondence not complete
~ explanatory, have asked Tor
further Information which would read
+ Nv have hecu secured. II Mr.. walsh
had confined his public utteranees TO
Statements which were true and Ia
differences which the evidence tusti-
fed there would have heen no occas-
on for protection.
tnwarrnBted Conclusions.
Instead of DOING that. tie has taken
the correspondence drawn from 1t Ger
tain differences. and without ascertain
| tng whether hts infey6nces were cor
rect has made statements and an
bounced conclusions which are un~ar-
ranted. and in some respects has even
faisihed the record itself 1T, there
fore. becomes necessary for ne in self
defense Ia publish the facts
Mo walsh asserts thar the cores
pendence shows that / exercised per
sonal influence that extended even to
tire state House az Denver and pre-
sagned TO dictate letters that went cut
TO the President ef the United states
ana to- the governors ~ the states
over the signature OF the governor of
Colorado THIS is. every word OF II,
false, and has been so characterized
bv Governor AmmonS IN the morning $
pers The facts airs az follows
Last May Governor Ammons sent
Major f j Boushton. ad3utant gen =
ersf ~ Colorado. 10 New York. | never
mes Major Bouehtou. hut he told Mr..
Lee that Governor AmtnoHs had been
disturbed over the MISUNDERSTANDING
VI hich prevailed In the Eastern States
concerning many phases of the Colo
RADIO strike. Major Boughton asked
Mr. Lee II he had In mind any effec-
tive way of getting the facts before
method would he Tor the Governor 10
write "a letter 20 the President OF the
United States and 10 his fellow gov
errors OF other States, setting forth
The situation az Governor Ammons saw
n Major Boughton stated that he
could NOT tell how the Governor would
regard such suggestion. ard that
even Major Bonghton himself would
have 10 convey the suggestion 10 Gov
Major Boughton's superior officer.
Asked TO Prepare Draft.
80 get the matter into shape for
consideration. Major BouEhton asked
Mr. Lee to make. his suggestion con
crete by preparing the draft OF the
kind of letter which he had in mind
A. basis for the preparation OF this
draft Major Boughton sent MFR. lee q
memorandum OF his own view OF the
situation. The memorandum written
hy me and referred TO In one OF my
letters as having been sent by me TO
Mr. Lee was nothing more than a
rough draft of a statement concern
ing the Colorado situation which !
had drawn up, In answer TO statements
which had appeared In the press, but
had never used A COPY of this memo
rsndun. which. as I wrote to Mr.. Lee
on June 10. 1914, was incomplete, and
only suggestive. accompanies this
statement when 7 learned OF Mr.. Lee
suggestion to Major Roughton II oc-
Cured 10 me that this memorandum
contained material which Mr.. Lee might
and helpful in that connection. Mn
Lee drafted his ideas and sent them
10 Major Boughton. but they were never
even submitted to General Chase, let
alone to the Governor. From Governor
Ammons' statement in the morning pa
per, II is obvious that he never knew
that such suggestion had been made,
Again Mr. Walsh states:
1--WE get from this same cores
npondence that Mr.. Rockefeller had
a plan about this time for publishing
a string OF daily papers
Absolutely False.
This charge is absolutely false.
never had such plan. Mr.. Walsh's
only basis for his statement Is con
tanned in correspondence between
Mr. Lee and myself, referring to \
letter which I had received from a
man I had never heard of, and which
] had forwarded to Mr. Lee.
"Mr. Walsh also states that have
A plan of financing the publication
of the official organ of the National
Chamber OF Commerce The paper
referred to is The Nations Busi-
ness and Is distributed without
charge to members OF the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States.
The president of the Chamber of
Commerce discussed with me on va
rious occasions financial plan for
eniarging this publication SO as to
make It a more effective medium by
which the chamber could place before
the business men Of the country facts
OF interest TO them. In regard to
business, commerce. national legisla-
zion. Industrial matters. etc Al.
though considered the proposition
entirely Legitimate. Il 49, never fa-
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