Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-18
HATCHER'S ALLEGED
DISLOYALTY TO U. S.
Testimony Of Good Citizenof More
head as to his Pro- -GermaniSm.

| neard j. wesley 1aCcner say 10
a class of students that he had
no confidence in the soldiers we
were sending to France. That
the Germans were deep,i i think
ers than the Americans and when
the Germans planned to do a
thing they always did it; and Mr..
Perry says that he also heard
Mr.. Hatcher say that the Ameri-
can people were nothing but a
bunch of snobs. A snob defined
by Webster-A vulgar upstart,
one who apes gentility and one
who regards position as superior
to character.
Clay Caudill, a young man of
the high school class, says he
heard Prof. Hatcher say that
Americans did not compare with
Germans in education nor in
power Of invention.
Mrs. George H. Gearheart,
wife of George H. Gearheart,
Manager of Clearfeld Lumber
Company, states that she heard
j. Wesley Hatcher at a Red Cross
meeting in the court house, make
in substance the following state
ments:
THAT the world owed Ger
many much and that she was
not a nation to be despised.
That there was no just cause for
and that it was unnecessary to
sacrifice the blood of American
soldiers in this war; that we were
trying to ram Democracy down
the throats of Germans when
they did not want it and that
they were not going to have it. F"
Mr.. E. Hogg states that he
heard Mr.. Hatcher make the
statements referred to by Mrs.
Gearheart, and that Mrs. Gear
heart has since repeated the
statements in his presence.
Miss Ruby Williams, a high
school student and daughter of
the Rev. L. E. Williams, of the
Methodist church, says when the
question was asked in class
What nations now have an auto
cratic form of government? That
Mr.. Hatcher named some of the
nations, including Germany, and
that Harlan Hatcher, a member
of the class, said: "Yes and the
United States" and Mr.. Hatcher
answered and said: Eyes Harlan
| guess you are right"
Miss Williams also states that
when the United States declared
war on Austria that Mr.. Hatcher
came before the class and read
the account of it from the news
paper, and Harlan Hatcher asked
What has Austria done to us?"
Mr.. Hatcher answered him and
said Il do not know" Then
Harlan Hatcher said: Il guess
she has stolen one of our mar
bles," and Mr.. Hatcher said:
"Yes Harlan, | guess you are
right" "
Mrs. G. C. Nickel, wife of DR..
! G.. C. Nickel, one of the leading
2 physicians of Morehead, says
that Mr.. Hatcher, in reply tC
rumors that he was pro-German
5 said in the church that he was
+ not pro. German neither was he
pro-Enplish. Mrs. Nickel say,
she heard Mrs. j. Wesley Hatch
er, wife of j. Wesley Hatcher, il
L a speech before the woman
e club of Morehead, make in sub
/ stance the following statements
4 That this was in no sense on
war and that every body VIII
read any knew that it was an oil
! and obsolete question for whic
}. we were fighting, that we woul
e not hate to see our cousins an
e friends go if the circumstance
" were different-that is if we ha
:, greater cause for war.
g = Thurman Perry says when h
u reported to Hatcher that hi
% (Thurman's) statements ha
been taken and advised Hatche
J. to explain himself to the peop
N of this community that Hatche
- informed him that he had bee
- complimentary to the German
in all of his talks and that he ha
N already stated that he was n,
o.o Enol;Sh and that ha OH