New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-03
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company, told Of the message sent out
over the rural lines on Tuesday morning
announcing the meeting to be held on
the evening OF the following day. She
said the announcement was ordered by
Mr.. Ahrens, and was dictated by him
over the telephone, but she hadn't the
copy as taken. That was turned over
to the manager Of the company, who gave
it to the rural operators, after the proper
charge had been made, etc. She could
not remember the exact wording OF the
message. 1t reached between 500 and
500 subscribers Of the telephone com
pany.
Miss Harriet Payne was called to tell
of the handful, ordered printed by Mr..
Ahrens, at the Review Office. They were
ordered and printed Monday instead Of
Tuesday.
Rev. Robert Schlinkert of the Catholic
church, testified that he had been in
vited by Mr.. Retzlaff over the telephone,
to speak at the meeting, but had de-
clined. He said Mr.. Retzlaff told him
the meeting was to be held under the
auspices Of the Peoples Council, and
that he asked what the Peoples Council
was.
Took Invitation as Joke.
j. A. Ochs, who was the last witness
of the afternoon, said he was invited
Wednesday morning, to address the meet
ing but had laughed it off as joke. As
to any conversation that the witness
may have had since the meeting, with
either Mr.. Vogel or Mr.. Pfaender, the
witness said that any talk that he had
had with them was of too meagre a
nature to remember, and he had for
gotten anything that was said, as he
had not discussed the meeting with
them.
Nearly all of Thursday forenoon and
for a short time following the noon
recess Prof: A. Alderman was on the
stand, the attorneys for the Safety Com
mission endeavoring to obtain from the
professor an admission that he was in
favor of seeing Germany win the war,
which he emphatically denied. e
Mr.. Tighe questioned Prof. Alderman
relative to the part he took in meetings
at Gibbon and Glencoe, and was asked
at frequent intervals to quote from the
various speeches that he had delivered
here and elsewhere. Prof. Ackermann
said he had made several speeches on
the subject of war, the first being at
a Red Cross Meeting, in 1915 when his
remarks were in favor of that organiza-
ton. When asked if he was in favor Of
the overthrow of the present German
government, the attorney explaining
that that is the aim of the United States
in the present war, because, he declared
that government is responsible for the
present conflict, the professor said that
if it were shown that the German govern
ment is to blame for the war, he GER
tainly is in favor of it's overthrow.
He wanted another instituted in it's
place, however. He would not be in
favor Of that country being left without
a government.
The professor, when asked by the
lawyer, if he were member OF the
German-American alliance, said he
was not, and knew but little relative
to the workings or objects of that organi-
cation. When the lawyer asked him if
he knew Julius Moersch Professor
Ackermann said he had met him once
or twice in New Ulm and had also been
introduced to Gruenwald, but
had very little acquaintance with the
latter.
Mysterious Telephone Message.
Prof. Alderman saidf that someone
called him up by telephone on the day
of the meeting in this city, July Is, and
warned him not to speak on that evening.
'Who called you up, asked?" Attorney
Tighe.
'.If you can tell me shall be very glad
to know" answered Prof. Alderman,
because have never been able to find
out. y
Prof. M. J. Wagner, also Of the DR..
Martin Luther college, followed Prof.
Alderman on the stand. He was also
one of the speakers. The witness de-
MED that he was disloyal, or that he
delivered a seditious address at the meet
ing. He quoted some of the statements
from his speech, which was on the sub
ject of democracy. Prof. Wagner, ac-
cording to his testimony, would fight and
is willing to fight for the United States,
but is not in favor of the draft, and does
not believe in sending men to Europe