Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-25
STONE AN ANGLER
FOR ALLIANCE AID
Chairman Wilcox Publishes a
Letter Inviting to Confer
ence With Democrat.
INsIsTENT ON GETTING IT

New York, Oct Z4.-(Special lele-
gram 1.-The specious character of the
attempts made by Mr.. Wilson's cam
paign managers to indicate that Mr..
Hughes has made compact with citi-
zens of foreign extraction to present
to the public their views of how for
eign relations should be administered
is further shown by letter, made
public today by Chairman Wilcox of
the republican national committee.
The letter is addressed to Henry
Weissman, president of the New
York state branch of the German
American alliance. 1t was written on
d stationary of the democratic national
committee and was signed by an as
sociate of Frederick B. Lynch, chief
of its bureau of political organizations
and clubs
Invitation From Stone.
In this letter Mr.. Weissman was in
vited in polite terms to meet Senator
Stone, chairman of the foreign rela-
tions committee of the United States
senate, who was in New York on the
avowed mission of winning over to
Mr.. Wilson's support certain citizens
of German birth.
1.-THE absurd and disingenuous
phase of the whole matter" said Mr..
Wilcox, "is that while Mr.. Wilson's
managers have charged specifically on
two separate occasions that Mr..
Hughes was compounding with GER
tain branch of the electorate. they
themselves were covertly soliciting, in
most abject way, the support of
members of the German-American
alliance"
This is the letter to Mr.. Weiss
man:
Democratic National Committee Head
quarters, 80 East Forty-second Street, New
York, Sept. 11:-My Dear Mr.. Weiss
mann: Senator Stone. chairman foreign re-
lations committee. will be at the Waldorf
on Thursday; don't you and few of your
friends want to have an informal talk with
him on Thursday or Friday evening? Phone
me on receipt Of this Murray HILL 919O,
and oblige. Yours very truly
F. W. JANSEN
Date Significant.
"Mr. Weissmann is a lawyer at A
Court street, Brooklyn" Mr.. Wilcox
went on. "The date, September II, is
significant, because five days later,
on September 10, occurred the famous
party at Terrace Garden, when Sena-
tor Stone sat up so late making abb
ject plans to leading citizens of Ger
man birth, or extraction, to support
the Wilson cause. He directed his
plans to meet them, not as American
citizens, but as Germans in the United
States. Mr.. Weissmann says that he
did not reply to the letter, but that
two days later he got a telephone
message from the writer, Mr.. Jansen,
asking why no reply had been sent.
"Mr. Jansen expressed himself as
anxious to have Mr.. Weissmann ac-
cept the invitation, because Senator
Stone was then at the Waldorf and
was expecting him to call.,Mr. Weiss
mann replied that, inasmuch as he
respected the office which Senator
Stone held he could not visit him, be-
cause he feared that the kind of con-
versation that must necessarily ensue
would be highly disagreeable to the
senator ~
Charges Are Unsupported.
"In all of the attempts made by
democratic managers, including Mr.
Norman Hapgood, unsupported state
ments have been made that Mr..
Hughes made explicit promises of
support. Not one shred of document
airy evidence has been produced on
that point. On the contrary, the
charges have fallen down in every
particular. Moreover, the hypocrisy
of the charge has been made ap-
parent through the production of
conclusive evidence that Mr.. Wilson's
managers were trying to do exactly
what they charged Mr.. Hughes with
having done.
"Mr. Hughes has neither agreed nor
promised use the words of Mr..
Hapgood and the writer of the state
ment put out in the morning papers
by the democratic national committee
to reflect in his public addresses the
opinions of any particular group.
" ildt MI. llusliSo ldo uoliS dhu WHdl
he will continue to do, is to stand for
undiluted Americanism.
For Straight Out Americanism.
Neither, Mr.. Hughes, nor any
member of this committee has sec
reilly solicited the support Iof any
one, who is not willing to go the
whole road for a straight out Ameri-
canism. Let me quote the statement
which Mr.. Hughes made in his ad-
dress of acceptance:
Whether native or naturalized, of what
ever race or creed, we have but one coun-
try and we do not intend to tolerate any
division Of allegiance.
"The injection into the campaign of
reflection of the dreadful forces
which are convulsing Europe has been
done solely md exclusively by Mr..
Wilson's oW managers. / challenge
them to produce the least iota of evil
dence to show that this committee has
countenanced anything less than the
interests OF the entire American peo-
pie.
Mr.. Hughes has pleaded for the
support of no faction. No evidence
can be produced to show the contrary,
because there is none"