New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-13
ASPIRANT FOR COP.
HEAD KAISER LOVER
John 7. Adams Of Iowa With
draws From Contest
DISLOYALTY, RIVALS SAY

Candidate Said Kaiser Was Peace
Loving Man-Wiu Place Name of
William Hayes in Nomination and
Election Will Follow.
st. Louis, Feb. 13.-Lobbying in
behalf of candidates for chairman Oh
the republican national committee
was resumed today in preparation for
the second session of the committee
which will take place this afternoon
Neither John T. Adams of Iowa, nor
William Hayes of Indiana seemed as
sured of majority.
Adams this afternoon announced
his withdrawal from the contest for
chairman Hayes will be placed in
nomination by Mr.. Adams and his
election by acclamation will probably
follow.
The fight on Adams by his >oppo-
nents is based on charges Of disIoy-
atty. Senator w. NJ. Calder of New
York yesterday produced before the
executive committee a letter which
he said Adams had written to the
Herald.
The letter was dated in Berlin, Au-
gust 81, 1914, and said that "as Amer
lea has been flooded with lying and
misleading reports from London,
Paris and st. Petersburg" the writer
would like to see published in the
Telegraph Herald some articles which
he was forwarding. These articles
were the German White Book and
truth about Germany
II will make the assertion" the let
ter continued, that there are no
more peace-loving people in the
world than the Germans, from the
kaiser himself to the humblest citi-
zen, and there are no people who
have progressed further in all that is
best in cultured civilization"
Adams Letter.
The letter follows:
Berlin, Aug. 81, 1914.
Editor Telegraph Herald, Dubuque,
Iowa.
Dear Sir: I am mailing you today
through our am bassador copy of
the German White Book and Truth
About Germany AS America has
been flooded with lying and mislead-
ing reports from London, Paris and
st. Petersburg, I would like to see
some of these articles, which present
the situation from the German stand
point, published in The Telegraph
Herald
ITO the best of my knowledge and
belief these statements represent sub
stantially the unanimous sentiment Of
the many thousand Americans who
happen to be at this time in Ger
many. I would like to write a chap
ter myself on the causes of this hor-
rible war, but this letter may not
reach its destination. I would make
the assertion, however, that there are
no more peace-loving people in the
world than the Germans, from the
kaiser himself to the humblest citi-
zen, and there are no people who
have progressed further in all that
is best in culture and civilization.
But Germany in recent years has
surpassed all other countries in Eu-
rope in prosperity, and she has in
terfered incidentally with the foreign
commerce of Great Britain. This is
really her great crime, and this is
the principal reason why the small
arch hypocrite, Sir Edward Grey, has
nursed the anti German sentiment
among the bloody shirt politicians
of France and the degenerate aristoc-
racy of Russia. This is the reason
Why Sir Edward Grey, while making
, few plays to the galleries in behalf
or peace, was actually working "a
hours a day to make certain the out
break of hostilities.
1T is now perfectly clear to all Of
US VINO have been living in Germany
that when Russia and France were
secretly planning to make Austria s
determination to punish the Serbian
assassins the occasion for a. sudden
attack on the German borders these
two countries were given ADEQUATE
assurance that England would sup
port them.
That France had intended to
march her troops through Belgian
territory in order to flank the right
wing of the German army and that
she was to do SO with the knowledge
and approval of England is abso-
) Iutely certain, and that Belgium was
a. party to the understanding is high
Iy probable.
when Germany crossed the Bel
gian border first, that was EngIand's
excuse for declaring war, but not
her reason. She had already decided
that this was the opportunity to re-
store her commercial supremacy by
helping France and Russia destroy
the German empire.
'That such motives should impel
the rulers of England to impose a
terrible war upon the people of Eu-
rope IS incredible to those who are
ignorant of English history.
''But they Will not destroy the Ger
man empire. The hostile Drepara-
tons which have been going on in
Francs and Russia for several years