The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-05
PROPAGANDA WAS
FINANCED BY GERMANY
Teutonic Gold Paid for Big Mass
Meeting In Carnegie Hall In 1913,
Witness Tells Government.
U. s. BE Peaceful.
Star Witness In Rintelen Trial, Bohna.
Declares Congressman Buchanan
Only Smiled When He Accused Him
of Accepting $1,000 of Gcrmany's
Money.

New York, May 4.-German gold
paid the expenses OF a great labor
mass-meeting" in Carnegie hall in
June. 1915, at which William Jen-
nings Bryan was principal speaker
This WAS the sensational testimony
late today in the federal court of
Ernest Rohm. secretary OF the Cen
trail Federated union. Bohm WAS star
witness at the trial of Franz Rntelen.
David Lamar II. Robert Fowler.
Henry 3. Martin. Frank Buchanan
and other members of labor's national
peace council.
The meeting was a thunderous de-
mand that the United States keep out
of the European war The crisis
over the sinking of the Dusitania a
few weeks before was acute.
The expenses of the meeting totaled
s4l5. Ostensibly fathered by the Cen
trail Federated union, Bohm admitted
on cross examination that he had set
tied the rental of the hall and Incl
dental expenses from fund of ST.
2lo given to him later by Henry b,
Martin
When the ,s3210 came into his
hands he said he had accepted the
tionai peace council, the dummy or
ganization which the government con
tends was formed by the defendants
and financed by money from Berlin.
Bei,tr ard the promoters of the
Carnegie hall meeting were so anN-
ious to have Bryan speak that he
headed a committee which went to
North Philadelphia and escorted the
former secretary Of state TO New
York.
Bohm said he had heard German
money was behind the peace council.
Once he told Congressman Frank Blu
chanan that he had been Informed
Buchanan got $4,000. Buchanan. he
said. just smiled and said nothing.
When he asked Jacob Taylor. one
of the defendants and who succeeded
Buchanan as president of the coun-
ell. the latter denied the story, say
ing:
But don't care much where the
money comes from
BONN told of efforts to whip up
sentiment in favor of an embargo on
munitions shipments. He also told of
talks with Martin and others on the
question of strikes on the munitions
plants
Martin told him, he swore. that
prominent business men who favored
world peace were back Of the council.
Cne of these. he declared. was "E.
! Rusky," a wealthy Chicago merchant
This is one of the admitted aliases of
David Lamar, the wolf Of Wall
Street" who is alleged to have lab
sorbed" several hundred thousands OF
Rintelen dollars.
ON one occasion carrying out his
| Rusky' disguise, the government al
! legged today, Lamar registered for adj :
joining rooms at the Hotel Afor. He
occupied one under his own name, the
other as "Rusky"
Officers OF the peace council sa id
Bohm planned a convention In Wash
ington July 3l-August !. 1915. He
was told to get all the delegates he
could and for this purpose visited
or sent representatives to Buffalo
Utica. Troy. Baltimore, Pittsburg.
I bridgeport and elsewhere
He secured a number Of delegate
from oranges and farmers organize
| tons throughout the country" mar
raten the witness
These met with us In Washington
Martin introduced a resolution favor
| ing strikes in munition plants and the
! farmers walked out. Buchanan had
/ from the presidency
I The defenses battery OF lawyers
went at the witness savagely on cross
! examination. They sought to get him
TO admit that he was testifying ar
/ the government under duress but he
| denied it.