New-York tribune., 1918-07-23
Saratoga Delegates Get In
dications Of Connection
With Teuton Alliance
Paid for Junket
To Harvard Museum
Praised Kaiser and Backed
Scheme to Bring Countries
Into Closer Relations
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

mlnQeQneSS OF the ammdny CAuOlUdCS,
William Randolph Hearst, is the big
pre-convention topic. Fresh instances
of his pro- German bias are being cited
by anti-Hearst delegates and district
leaders from the records of Hearst's
relations with the German-American
Alliance. According to these:
Hearst proposed, in 1907, to pay the
expenses of delegation of a dozen
alliance members to got to Germany
for the purpose of foundnb an Gin
ternotianel German-American Alli-
ance. with branch in Berlin, in or
der to promote an understanding Of
German acts and German ideals in
America
Hearst took several hundred conven-
ton delegates of the German-Ameri-
can Alliance on pilgrimage to the
shrine of German art" the Ger
manic Museum of Harvard Univer-
sity in Cambridge, Mass.
On this juket, Hearst made a speech
lauding German aid and friendship
for America, and gave toast in
which Frederick the Great and Georbe
Washington were linked.
the alliance finally declined to accept
the publishers offer to pay the ex-
penses of the delegation to Germany.
Hearst's Offer Shown
Hearst's connections with the Ger
nan-American Alliance we're first
America through hearings before the
Judiciary subcommittee of the United
States Senate on bill to cancel the
charter Of the alliance.
At this hearing Professor Earl F..
Sperry, of the University of Syracuse,
brought out the fact that William
Randolph Hearst had written a letter
to the alliance proposing to pay the
expenses of a delegation of German
Americans who should go to Germany
to create an international German
American alliance" and to study Ger
man conditions for Americas benefit.
In the letter, the original of which was
in German, Hearst thus pledged his
support of this project:
"The time has now come for the
GermanAmerican National Alliance
to broaden the field of its activities
and to extend it's hand to Germany,
so that both countries may 60 for
ward side by side on the path Of
progress. With this purpose in view,
it is desired to found an lnterna-
tonal German-American alliance,
with a branch in Berlin, in order to
promote an understanding of Ger
man acts and German ideals in
America, as we'll as the study of
German social and economic rela-
tions and the most cordial political
relations between the two countries.
1t is therefore proposed that this
convention authorize the president
to name a delegation of ten or twelve
leading citizens who have this mat
ter at heart in order during the year
1908 to go to Germany and to act in
the interest of this great project.
Mr.. Hearst promises to cooperate
with this delegation, and through his
eight papers in five cities to make its
purposes and its goal known to the
government and the people of the
United States. In order further to
meet the costs of this movement Mr..
Hearst offers TO- pay all the expenses
of the above mentioned delegation,
including such public functions as it
participates in while in Europe.
"Achtungsvoll respectfully,
"WlLLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST"
The offer was also recorded in
Hearst's German-language newspaper
the "Deutsches Journal" of New York
on October 6, 1907.
Hearst Paid for Junket
The next development, as revealed
in the files of Hearst's "New Yorl
American" as we'll as in the minutes
OF the alliance, was a Hearst junket
Unlike the affair of July 4, which
brought less than tenth Of Congress.
to New York to certify to the joint
loyalty of themselves and Hearst, this
was a junket of German-A ricar
delegates to the alliances convention
Hearst's hospitality
"The American" of October T. 1907
contained this forecast of the affair:
"There is the utmost enthusiasm
among the National German-Ameri
can Alliance delegates over the
Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Ger
man Art Harvard's Germanic Mu-
scum - which several hundred of
them will make to-day as the guests
of William Randolph Hearst There
is nothing in all America which
holds more of interest than the mu-
scum in Cambridge. which is the
result of years of energy and per-
sistence of Professor Kuno Francke
and his colleagues in the German de-
partment of Harvard. One of the
officers of the alliance declared yes
terday that Mr.. Hearst's idea of CIV
ing such q trip was an inspiration.
The delegates and their national
officers, accompanied by Mr.. Hearst
and MaXimilian Ihmsen, will leave
for Boston this afternoon on the
Fall River Line steamer Puritan. At
o'clock an elaborate dinner, for
which Mr.. Hearst has arranged, will
be served in the dining saloon of the
steamer. Then will follow a genuine
German 'kommers,' or smoker, which
will occupy the evening. There will
be entertainment of various sorts,
but underlying 1t all qUiN be
serious umdercurremt of discussion
of acays and means for forming
and fostering an active alliance
bettUeen Germany and America"
Anti-Hearst Delegates Gleeful
Anti-Hearst delegates, into who's,
hands the record of this junket has
fallen, are pointing with much glee t,
the account OF Hearsts speech, il
which he linked Frederick the Great ant
George Washington in a toast, as i
appeared in the "Deutsches Journal
of October 8, 1907:
william Randolph Hearst was ac-
corded hearty reception last night