The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-13
.BORGLUM BRANDS
BAKER AS A LIAR
Renews His Assertion of
Grave Misconduct in Air.
craft Production
MAKES COMPLAINT
TO THE PRESIDENT
Senator Brandagee of Connecticut Will
Submit to the Senate Detailed Evil
dence and Affidavits Relating to the
Allpped Trame-un
Alleged Frame-up.

dence and Affidavits Relating to the
Alleged Frame-up.
WASHINGTON, May l3.-Gutson
Borglum, storm center of the aviation
controversy, made public last night an
other letter to President Wilson denying
that he had betrayed the President s
confidence, renewing his assertions of
grave misconduct in the government
aincraft production organization and
insisting taat the senate military COM
mittee should conduct openly and thor
oughly the Investigation which he saws
he was prevented from making "by the
war. department under Secretary
Baker,
in regard TO the documents put into
the senate record Friday, designed to
show that the sculptor attempted to
capitalize his friendship with the Presi-
dent by secretly organizing a corpora
ton to produce airplanes, the letter SAYS
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut will
submit to the senate tomorrow or
Wednesday detailed evidence and aft
davits relating to "this deliberate
frame-up.'
1T IS matter of the gravest con-
Germ TO me, - it adds, that credence
could be given to charges of such
nature, or that they should have been
IN your possession and / have received
no intimation of the falsehood until
To Ia1
some sort of a charge or charges of
diSloyalty to you. This is so unthink-
able that | dismissed and declined to
even discuss them.
Mr.. Borglum repeats his published
answer to the charges and continues:
at is absurd to state that pro-Ger-
mans are clamoring for Investigations
while the secretary of war is a party
To statements, untrue and unfoundcd,
issued TO deceive the nation and serv-
lug no other possible purpose except
to warn Germany to hurry her own air
plane production as we are forever and
tiun. - ." - o. =
Never. believe, in the history of
the country, has a group of men been
given so completely a nations re-
sources, together with the administra-
ton and the people 5 confidence. as
have the aircraft group and never has
such confidence been more wantonlv
abused. refer here to Mai.-Gen
Squicr, Howard f. Coffin, Col. Deeds
and Col Montgomery. These civilian
and military members. appear every
where IN the program planned to meet
our military needs-and thcv appear
everywhere in the fine network of false
hood and camouflage and they include
MIR. Baker as their partner in the com
mon statements to the public-thcv
deliberately lied to YOU and framed no
their statements, particularly their fail
Ures and misleading congress before the
military committee and they directly
are responsible for no engines. no
planes. no propellers and our vanished
appropriations.
- Had there not been this malicious
effort to discrcdit me with YOU and
impugn my honor on the floor of the
senate, ! might have with the rest of
America, though with shame and
anger, still been holding my peace, wait
ing and watching for the interminable
shifting from one department to the
other OF responsibilities that can lie
only at the door of the executive mem
bers of the aircraft board. The sour
riious Islander by Deeds s friend was
foul and unfair blow and in the cir
of its Importance and it,
purpose to invalidatc me, discredit me,
gave 1t abnormal public interest and
unusual publicity. This, Mr. President.
compels me to demand that the invcs-
tlgation by the military committee Of
the senate shall he complete and ex-
haustlvc in the matters relating to air
craft production, but as these charges
have been brought before the senate the
interference by the war department UNI
der MI. Baker, prevents me from secur-
ing proper evidence.
81 know you will agree with me
IN this, that ! have right to demand
1t as you know no harm can come to
any enc but those who are guilty.
am loyal to YOU as our President
and even better | am loyal to your
thought as so often expressed touching
the state of the world and the nation s
mission and | shall remain so. but | am
not loyal to, nor can ! support men or
methods inimical to our country = GOOD
planned to deceive YOU and the nation
ana diScrcdit us in the eyes of the
world