Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-24
Cotton Sn1ashes All Records Since the Civil War
Secret Agreement With
"HyphenateS" Is Charged
To Charles EpanS Hughes

children and their children's children
the oath of the vendetta.
6. The avowed purpose of the secret
organization to secure the election OF
Charles Evans Hughes and certain ia
vored candidates for congress.
The exposure of the official records Of
the organization at this time will prob
ably serve the purpose of thwarting one
of its main objects, the concealment
of the sources of it's financial support
and the character of its disbursements.
Its committees, In their official reports,
frankly confess the intention to influ-
ence the election of a president as we'll
as members of congress. and plan the
expenditure of money upon a magnitude
which they themselves state will over
shadow that of either of the regular
political parties.
COMES UNDER Law.
Upon the face of these records, there
fore, the national committee Of the
American independence Conference.-The
active working body-comes within the
provisions of chapter S92 of the United
States statutes at large Gas amended
providing for publicity of eontribu-
tions." BY it's terms, the law is specitcal-
" applicable to "all committees, associa-
lions or organizations which shall in two
or more states influence the result or at
tempt to influence the result of an cleo
ton at which representatives In con-
gress are to be elected"
The damaging entry in the official
minutes of the meeting of the national
committee of the American Independence
conference held in Chicago September 80,
which states that Charles Evans Hughes
held a secret personal conference with
the special committee referred to, is
as follows:
81. A. O'Leary tken reported to the
national committee the meeting that the
speciaI committee had with the Repub-
lican presidential candidate and gave
the gathering a detailed report OF the
interview.
The meeting of September 80 was
preceded by meeting held in Detroit
on September Z. At the Detroit meet
ing Carl z. Schmidt, chairman OF the
national committee of the American In
dependence conference; Jeremiah A.
O'Leary, Will r. Macdonald and Frank
Setberlich were selected as members OF
the special committee and were in
structed to place before Mr.. Hughes a.
written document setting forth the de-
mands of the organization.
Those demands, which are also made
public by the Democratic national com
mittee, were reduced to writing at the
Detroit meeting.
They were signed by the full men,
bership of the national, committee in
attendance at the Detroit meeting. They
appear in the official records of the or
ganizatfon under the heading Statement
read to Charles Evans Hughes by the
conferences special committee"
DATE is NOT FIXED.
The records do not disclose the pre-
else date or place of the personal pre-
sentation of the demands to Candidate
Hughes The conceded fact, however.
is that jeremiah A. OLeary, as spokes-
man of this special committee, report
ed at the Chicago meeting on Septem-
Der 80 that the meeting with the Re
publican presidential candidate had been
held and that Mr.. O'Leary RECALLED his
followers with a detailed report of the
interview.
Following is the demand presented to
Mr.. Hughes with the notation of the
special committee:
1--WE, representing a large percentage
of the voters of the United States who
believe in the principles of American in
dependence and sovereignty in confer
ence assembled at Detroit, Mich, Sep
TENDER Z. 1916, have been attracted by
the telegram of congratulation which
was sent by the Hon. Charles +. Hughes,
Republican candidate for president of
the United States, to Theodore RooSe-
Welt, upon the deliverance by him of
a public speech at the city of Lewiston,
Me-, which carried with it, by express
sion and implication, an Endorsement by
Mr. Hughes of Mr.. Roosevelts pro-
British and anti-American public ut
terances, which position has heretofore
been condemned by us in conference and
convention, as inconsistent with Amer
lean ideals and American history.
Under these circumstances, we de-
sire to call the attention of Mr.. Hughes
to the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt, actu-
ated by race prejudice and a desire TO
serve British interests, designedly at
tackled a large part of the American
people, while he did not mention any
of the fragrant, arrogant, and continual
transgressions upon American rights by
Great Britain upon the high sea;
ANY interference with and destruc-
ton of American trade and commerce
with belligerent and neutral nations, any
violations Of the sanctity of the United
States mails: any boycotting and black
listing of American business men and
business interests, constituting dictation
and control of American domestic and
foreign commerce; the denial of the
American sovereign right to purchase
and operate ships of belligerent powers
needed to build up an American mer-
chant marine; the boarding of American
ships on the high sea and the removal
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