Arizona republican., 1916-10-26
PROGRESSIVE LEADER BITTERLY
 CONDEMNS PRESIDENT WILSON

cause he is a doer of things and not a dialectician."
 O. H. P, Shelley, progressive national committeeman for Montana, and Aus tin E. Griffiths, progressive national committeeman for Washington, who also acted with Parker Hale and Colby at the Chicago. meeting, have recently declared for Hughes and are now working for his election.
 It was not until after Jeremiah A. O'Leary had refused consistently to have anything to do with the demo- crats and had declined their insistent and repeated invitations for meetings and conferences, that President Wilson decided that O'Leary had access to the disloyal" The effort to get O'Leary to work for Wilson was in full swing at the time of the Wilson speech of acceptance at Shadow Lawn on September and it was not until that effort had failez that Mir. Wilson proclaimed that he did not want any O'Leary votes.
 Will R. Macdonald, of Chicago, who was named in statements given out by the democratic national committee as an emissary of the American indepen- dence conference, sert d telegram to Chairman Wilcox of the republican national committee today in which he said that the records of the conference show: That former Governor Martin H. Glynn of New York met Mir. O'Leary on d train just prior to the Shadow Lawn speech of acceptance and in a two-hOur conference urged O'Leary not to take any definite stand until he tGlynn) had had opportunity to take the matter up with MT. Wilson at Shadow Lawn where he was to lunch with the president on notifca- ton day tMr. Glynn did lunch with the president or that day); that Governor Glynn assured Mir O'Leary that the democratic leaders were still planning to do something to win back the Ger man. American and Irish American vote. and naturally stress was laid on the deep regret felt because of admin istration apparently without protest. had allowed the abuse of nuns. attacks on priests. etc; that Governor Glynn asked O'Leary to promise to delay any contemplated action until the Shadow Lawn conference. that after Governor Glynn went to the Shadow Lawn con- ference he got into long distance com munication with Mir. O'Leary and in- formed him that he had made an ap- pointment with Mir. Vance Mccormick and that Mir. Vance Mccormick was very anxious to see MT O'Leary and would MT OLeary :eJ MT. Vance Me Cormick know where he could be seen:
 That Governor Glynn sent what might be called letter of introduction to Mir OLeary to be used when he called upon Mir Vance Mccormick:
 That Vance Mccormick tried to get in touch with Mir. O'Leary by long distance and local New York telephone and tried to reach him by telephone at the McAlpine hotel. the American Truth Society offices. MT. OLeary's law office. Mir MacDonald's offices of the American Embargo Conference and at MT. O'Leary's home. that the conference records also bear statements that the conference received "intima- tions from certain democratic leaders that if we would try 10 hold the voters of our body for Wilson we would see some very strong acts on the part of the administration, such as refusing clearance papers to liners bound with ammunition to England unless the mail Outrages were stopped
 That our records show that even now we expect an eleventh hour over ture on the part of the democratic leaders which they hope will bring votes to Wilson"
 MT. MacDonald's telegram con- tinues:
 'l am willing to make solemn affi- davlt to the fact that the only evidence of any attempt to trade with the thou- sands and thousands of voters who are in this organization because 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 ma tiOnal committee. l am willing to make solemn affidavit that we went tC Mir Hughes, four of us, as American citizens who felt we had as much right to confer with MT. Hughes as Charles w Eliot. Henry Ford. Richard Olney or others have to confer with Mir Wilson: that MT. Hughes listened tC our declaration, which the democratic committee has given out and which il seems to feel is in some way un. American. and he then made a ringinl declaration of Americanism. I vii make an affidavit that he made nc promise, agreed to nothing. mentioned no pact, and the statement he issued regarding our conference Is absolutel, true in every detail"