New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Revenge for Disclosures Of
His Friendliness With
German Spy
Threat Made Long
Ago Is Made Good
Senator Robinson Says Ami
mu. Is Too Apparent to
Call for Reply

Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson,
nephew of Colonel Roosevelt and cam
paign manager for Attorney General
Merton E Lewis, charged last night
that the attack made on the Attorney
General and Colonel Roosevelt by Will
lam Randolph Hearst was aimed chiefly
1t Mr.. Lewis because of the Attorney
Generals investigation of Bolo Pacha's
activities in this country
This investigation was undertaken nv
,he Attorney General at the request OF
The French government. 1t resulted IN
Solo Pachas execution as German
spy in France. The investigation re-
ycaled that Bolo was host at a dinner at
which Mr.. and Mrs. Hearst and three
members of Mr. Hearst's staff. with the
wives of two of them, were guests. Inc
Investigation also disclosed that Bolo
ead boasted of having been q guest of
Mr.. Hearst at the latter's home on
Riverside Drive.
Says Animus Is Clear
"The signed statement by william
Randolph Hearst in to-day's New York
American calls for no reply, because
the anlmus against Attorney General
Lewis which is back of it is apparent,
said Senator Robinson. when Mr.
Lewis disclosed the facts in the Bolo
Pacha case, which resulted IN bolos
conviction of treason IN PARIS and SUD
seauent confession and execution, he
aisclosed at the same time that Mr..
Hearst was a guest at dinner given
by Bolo Pacha."
This dinner was given In the early
part of March, 1916, when Bolo came
over here to meet pro-German agents
and their chief, Count Won Bernstortf.
Another guest at the dinner was Adolf
Pavenstedt, for twenty years German
agent in this country the go-between
for the German Embassy and its agents.
Pavenstedt has since been interned as
dangerous enemy alien.
Bcrnstorff, gave Bolo $1,683, 500 of Ger
man War Othce funds. This was to be
used in France for spreading German
pacihst propaganda through lie Jour
nal" and other French papers subsi-
died by Bolo. Immediately on Bolo
Pacha's return to France he published d
o three-column eulogy of William Ran
dolph Hearst, who at that time was
conducting a pacifst campaign in his
newspapers III InlS country.
Attack No Surprise
The Hearst attack on Attorney Cen
cral Lewis was not unexpected Last
February word was brought to Attorney
General Lewis in Albany that if he ever
ran again for Office the Hearst publca-
tions would turn all their guns on him.
The reason advanced was Mr.. Lewis's
investigation of the Bolo Pacha affair.
An Albany dispatch dated February
"a, from The Tribune's Albany corre
spondent, told of the threats. Part of
this dispatch, which was published in
The Tribune on February %, read:
"Bolo Pacha, although awaiting SEN
sence of death in France as German
spy, is playing a part in New York
State politics now. Bolo, as was first
this country in February, 1916, to get
millions from Count Won Bernstorff to
carry on Germany's peace propaganda
III France and to beguile or to enlist
The aid of American publishers.
Revenge the Motive
50. Political agents of Hearst
have served notice on Republican lead
ers that if Attorney General Lewis
runs for reflection this fall he will con-
duct q per ,snal campaign against him
and his Political sponsor. George w.
Aldridge. of Rochester. The Hearst peo-
pie do not hesitate to say the motive
is one of revenge for the Attorney
Generals publication of the fact that
Hearst and Bolo were together on at
least two occasions while the German
spy was in this country"
Mr.. Lewis's friends are certain the
threat is now being put into execution
Senator Eion r. Brown, president
pro TEN: of the Senate; Assemblyman
Henry E. Machold, chairman of this
Ways and Means Committee. and
Simon L. Adler. Republican fioor lead.
er of the Assembly, were among the
callers at Lewis headquarters yester.
day Mr.. Lewis will be IN town to-
morrow.