New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Indict O'Leary
For Attack on
US. War Plan
Grand Jury Charges Bulls
Editor With Trying to
Create Disloyalty
Two of His Employees
Also Are Accused
As;tator Gets Bail Full
Penalty 40 Years in Prison
and $4,000 Fine

Penalty 4O Years III rriSoii
and $4,000 Fine
,.-.,;ab A. OLeary, lawyer and edi-
- the suppressed anti-British ana
% a.r Bull" and two Of his EN-
,.s were indicted yesterday by t'e
- Grand jury on a charge OF con-
80 70 create mutiny and disloyalty
,be army and navy Of the United
states. I.;s man
Adolf Stern, were arraigned be
1rdre Mayer in the Criminal
~ Of the United States Circuit
D'' :, the afternoon and pleaded not
IT. W., Stern was held in $4,000 bail
gun orssrv in $500 bail, which was
,nu 'S,sd Luther S. Bedford, man.
i' . .ditor Of Bull" did not appear
n =, ,,s,ding. A bench warrant was
issued for him.
Charged With Conspiracy
- ;,s;ctment. which follows the
ri returned against Max East
'rue "a ak others connected with "Ihe
n ,"....r on Monday, charges tha'
Ia" "T, Stern, Bedford and the BuIl
Lea" ro-,narv "conspired to-
80 and agreed among them
80. and with divers persons IN
-, 70 the grand jury, while tne
r,i,.s States was at war with the I'M
..-.l German government, to cause
"a s-.emp, 10 cause INSTRUMENTATION
s.,ovaltv. mutiny and refusal OF duty
-. military and naval forces Of the
go states. TO the injury and disser-
,bo limited States, through ana
y means Of certain monthly Has"
me called Bull"
'' apnnp the indictment charges fur
-. contained articles, poems, pct
.,,.. and cartoons intended to induce
.-.o,s liable to military service not to
Mist for such service.
There are two counts IN the inu'''-
-ss. which is predicated on the recen'-
: enacted espionage act. Each count
aries a maximum penalty OF twenty
ears Imprisonment and $4,000 fine
Letter to Ridder Cited
Cited in the indictment is the let
~ written by OLeary to Bernard
Rider editor Of the "Staats-Zeitung,
wrng Ridder TO oppose the govern
n.r, and to fight as the German
Hercld' is doing"
OLeary and Stern were represented
By Henry A. Wise, former United
States Attorney for this district. They
were paroled in the custody OF Mr..
Wise until bail was obtained.
0Leary was recently named by the
United States government, along with
ION Devov. Of "The Gaelic-American,'
a. aids OF Count Won Bernstorff. In the
Bolo Pacha disclosures OLeary, with
tie Riders. was revealed as an alleged
tseiver Of German propaganda FUNDS.
From the moment Germany began
var OLeary appeared as her cham
j pion. In a speech in Carnegie Hall, on
January -. 1915, he prOphesied revo-
l1.ioa in this country Il the United
States declared war against Germany
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Denounced by Wilson
oLeary was given nationwide pub
4 Heity in The 1916 campaign, follow
NJ lis efforts 20 make deal with the
Republican and Democratic parties 70
wing the so-called German vote. He
ss. out with both, but received from
President Wilson the following te4e-
/ gran:
q would feel deeply mortified to
have you or anybody like you vote Tor
ne. Since you have access 70 so many
i cisloySl Americans and ! have not, !
| will ask you 20 convey this message 70
J then"
While waiting for bail, which was
furnished By his wife, OLeary issued a
statement defending his actions. In IL
as said:
Il welcome the opportunity 70. prove
asi an and az all times have been
leysl and patriotic citizen Of the United
States. ! have been indicted for public
siiersnees on questions Of pubilc
Policy, which 7 believed and now be-
hsye was and am free 70 express my
vi, whether ny country IS at peace OF
cE2r.
II on matters Of public policy there
rsis a difference OF opinion between
aazens and those temporarily charged
t,a the administration Of the affairs
our government and the citizens
entertaining such opinions may be In
seisd and prosecuted for exercising
At insiienable right Of free speech,
.aea indeed have we returned 20 the
yfsAny that prevailed under the in
is'aous alien and sedition laws Of John
Aearss Administration, and while We
Profess 20 be fighting for democracy
ssf'sd We are destroying democracy at
bone
OLeary a Native American
OLesry then calls attention 20 the
.sa Asi he BE- a native born American,
"a men Of his family died for the
ehSh IN the Civil War and that others
sTsa 10 the Continental Army in the
ss'o'Htionary War. Pointing out the
~SA o. bis brOther-in-laW while on
ssHiee on the Mexican border last year,
@oeee that he WAS prepared 20 give
- ne IN the struggle "in which we
:" h'w engaged"
Ltsry recently wrote a letter 70
.Ihy ". Taft Offering his service as
'"t'fy counsel % the draft boards.
vine Workers Plan to
Appeal $500, 900 Verdict