The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-25
Is Fully Exposed by the Records
of the American Indepen-
dent Conference.

tgrtcfAL tpL rGtEaEAs1
NEW YORK. Oct %. ii was not
until after Jeremiah a. OI.oary had
refused p0rsistently 10 have anything
TO do with the Democrats and de-
clined their insistent and repeated in
vItatIons for meetings and conferences
that President Wilson decided that
q ieary had access to the disloyal."
The EFFORT to get O1,eary to work for
Wilson was in full swing al the time
~ the Wilson Speech Of acceptance
at Shadow Lawn on September and
II was not until that effort had failed
that MIR. Wilson proclaimed that he
did not want any O'Leary votes.
William r. Macdonald. Of Chicago,
vino was named In statements given
ont by the Democratic national com
mittee as an emissary Of the Ameri-
can Independence Conference, sent a
telegram to Chairman Wilcox Of the
Republican national committee Tues
day. in which he said that the records
NJ the conference show. That former
Governor Martin H. Glynn. OF New
York, met MIR OLeary on a train Just
prior to the Shadow Lawn speech OF
acceptance and in two-hour confer
ence urged O'Lcary not 10 take any
definite stand until he. Glynu. had bad
+ opportunity 10 take tile matter MP with
Mr. Wilson at Shadow Lawn where he
was 10 lunch with the president on
notification day. MIR. Glynu did lunch
with The president on that day: that
/ Governor Glynn assured Mr. O'Leary
that the Democratic leaders were still
i planning To do something TO win back
/ the German American vote. and nat
uraliy stress was laid ON the deep re-
greet felt because the administration,
! apparently without protest had al
lowed the abuse Of nuns. attacks on
priests. etc: that Governor Giynn
asked O'Leary to promise 10 delay any
contemplated action until after the
Shadow Lawn conference; that after
Governor Glynn went to the Shadow
Lawn conference lie went into long
distance communication with Mr.
OLeary and informed him that he had
made an appointment with Mr.. Vance
Mccormick and thai Mr.. Vance Nc
Cormick was very anxious 70 see Mr.
OI.eary and would Mr. OLeary let
Mir. Vance Mccormick know where nc
could be seen; that Governor Glynn
sent what might be called letter OF
introduction to Mr. OInary to he used
when he called upon Mr.. Vance Me-
Cormlck: that Vance Mccormick tried
10 get In touch With MIR. O'Leary by
LONG distance and local New York teie-
phone and tried to reach him by tele.
phone Gt the McAlpin hotel, the Amer
lean Truth Society office. Mr.. O'Ieary's
Law office. Mr. MacDnnalds offices Of
the American Embargo Conference,
and al MIR. OIcary's home; that the
/ conference records also bear state
ments that the conference received
( invitations from certain Democratic
I leaders thu' II he would try 10 hold
I the voters OF our hody for Wilson we
would see some very strong acts on
the part az The administration. such
Nc REFUSING clearance papers to liners
hOnud with ammunition 10 England
unless the mail outraEcs were
stopped: that our records show that
even now we expect some eleventh
hour overture on the part OF the Dem
ocrauc leaders which they hope will
bring votes to Mr.. wilson"
Mr MacDonald's telegram contin-
ucs:
4 am willing to make solemn afr
davit 10 the fact that the only evil
deuces Of any attempt To trade with
the thousands and thousands oi
voters who are IN this organization he
cause they stand for America first
came from men whom We have had
every right TO look upon as accredited
and responsible representatives Of the
Democratic national committee. an
al No,