The sun., 1918-12-11
HEARST'S STEPS
TOPREVENT WAR
ARE DISCLOSED
sensational Dispatches to
His Editors Presented at
Senate Inquiry.
ATTACKS ON WILSON
Zimmerman Note Pro-
nounced Forgery Done
at Behest of Gregory.
EXCHANGES WITH BERLIN
Col. House Described as Cor
pOration Lobbyist-Burle-
son Assailed.
EXCHANGES WITH BERLIN
special pespatch to TIE sur.

special Despdtch to THE Sun.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. William
Randolph Hearst's effort to avert a
declaration of war by the United
States against Germany and to build
mp peace sentiment through the vast
venue of publicity presented by his
string OF newspapers was made pub
ic to-day when the special inveeti-
gators Of the Senate judiciary Com
m'ttee voted TO spread on the Record
Of lis hearings the comprehensive
series of kilograms passing between
Mr.. Hearst and editors of his news
papers during the early months Of
1911. \. Bruce Bielaski. chief of the
burenu of Investigations Of the De-
partment Of Justice, presented the
evidence again to-day.
The action of the special commit
tee was taken against the vehement
protest of Senator King (Utah), who
succeeded yesterday In delaying the
presentation OF the evidence. The in
vaStIghtors had taken the matter un-
der consideration and to-day voted
down Senator Kings motion to sup
press the documents.
Telegram TO CarvaIho.
Many OF the kilograms were sensa-
tonal in the extreme. especially one
sent TO s. S. Carvalho, manager Of all
the Hearst papers, and Signed DOC
tor 1t was filed at Palm Beach,
where Mr.. Hearst was sojourning, in
March, 1917. 1t followed the expose
by the State Department Of the "Zim-
mermann notes." in which the German
plot to involve the United States and
Japan in row over Mexico was set
forth.
In this Mr.. Hearst denounced the Zim-
hermann document as a forgery and
expressed the opinion that 1t was man.
utactured by Attorney General Greg
ory out of whole cloth. The complete
authenticity of the Zimmerman note
later was substantiatcd. The denun-
clatory telegram which was sent while
the sensation was at its height Said:
Agree with Francis. Zimmerman
note all probability absolute fake and
forgery prepared by very unscrupu-
loGG A;torney-Generals very unscru-
pI.ous department. Everybody knows
the secret police are the most con-
>cicncclesS manufacturers of forged
evidence in the world.
"Gcegory's whole career in office, as
Srancis showed in recent editorial, has
been as spy fancier and plot con-
ce!vcr. Iie has not been bound by
niorals. facts or the Constitution. He
mas employed the secret service to en-
force Eng!a1d's unlawful orders.
Houses Appointments.
"Tie is possibly violently pro- British.
He is surely violently pro-corporation.
lie is located where he can do the cor
poratons the most good, and he has
been unwilling to be removed or they
have been unwilling to have him re-
moved even for a position on the Su-
pIeme bench. He and Burleson are
Houses appointments and House has
been corporation lobbyist all his life.
Gregory and Burleson are so
crooked that, as Alfred Henry Lewis
used to say. one OF them could lie in
bed on top of the WOolworth Building
ana the other on the ground floor and
looN down and up forty-seven flights
0f winding stairs into each others
eyes and understand each other per-
'cctly.
The object of the the Zimmerman
i9rcery was to frighten Congress into
s"tnS the President powers that he
demanded and perhaps also into pass
hE tha espionage bill. When Wilson
Luhtei to give away the rights of the
Uh!tca states in the Panama Canal he
pretended that ne had private infor-
nation OF a dangerous international
stlauon sufficient to justify his act
lie hos never revealed his private in
formation and no one now believes
'hAt he ever had any.
~ We do not want to say all this
"@'lorially we can say part OF II edi-
',I"Ily and get some one to stand for
~ interview, as Hale used to do, to
lFnf all those points out, especially
.Hcsc about the probable forgery OF
nc note. We should develop the for
CRY phase OF the note for the Sunday
PAPER If Francis and l seem to be
right. Dor-rop %
Francis" Mr.. Bielaski said, is Phil
mp Francis, one Of the New York
american editors.
Activities OF Hale.
Tho activities of William Bayard
Hale then Mr.. Hearst's correspondent
-' Berlin, were another subject OF con-
rsation over the wire from the
'n'"r resort TO the Offices OF the New
'nrk newspapers. Caleb x. Van
hanm Of the New York American
consistently urged on Mr.. Hearst the
menace Of Hale's extravagant German
conttnusd on Fourth Page.