Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-11
 PEACE VOTE
 SUGGESTED.
Hearst Attitude Based on Century Old Friendship Between Germany and America.

Washington Dec. 10.-Copies of instructions telegraphed by William Randolph Hearst to the editors of his newspapers and of other messages Beach, Florida, early in 1917, just before the United States entered the war were read today into the record of the senate committee investigat- ing brewers and German propagan- da They were taken from the files of the department of justice and giv- en to the committee by A. Bruce Biel- aski, chief of the bureau of investi- gation.
 MT. Hearst's message directed that editorials advocating embargo on shipments of munitions and food to allies be prepared for his New York papers: instructed that 'referen- dunn peace vote' in the election dis trict, in each city where Hearst or gans were printed be taken, and that Windsor McCay prepare a cartoon for the Norfolk American showing the United States and Germany shak
 ing their fists at each other and huge Japan bending forward, await ing to strike, Uncle Sam in the back"
 Other of the telegralns related to the famous Zimmerman note in which Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan, and which the As soclated Press revealed to the world. One message signed Doctors" and sent from Palm Beach, said the note was forgery prepared by the at torney general "to frighten congress into giving the president the powers he demanded, and perhaps also into passing the espionage bill" This telegram was dated March ?, and was sent after "Van Hamm," at New York, had telegraphed Hearst at Palm Beach, a copy "Of the in- structions as sent by Dr. Alfred Zim- rnerman, German foreign secretary, to German minister Von Eckhardt, in Mexico, through Von Bernstorff, now in possession of United States government
 On March 1, S. s. Carvalho, of the New York American, sent MT. Hearst a telegram saying that Senator 'Swannv' (Swsnson), of Virginia, an- nounced in the senate this morning that he was authorized by the presi- dent to state that the Zimmerman note to Mexico was textually cor rect. Lansing made same announce ment from state department." and asked "Will you outline such edi- torial as you want printed~f'
 Before the ttslegrams were read into the record. the committee heard Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, whose name was con- tained in Hist of important names" found in the diary of Dr. Karl F. Fuerh, German propagandist. Dr. Hart, who has two sons in the army. entered an emphatic denial of pro German tendencies and declared he was strongly anti-German before the after the United States entered the war.
 Messages from Elihu Root and Charles w. Eliot, vouching for pr. Hart's loyalty, were received by Overman and placed in the record. In the senate during the day, Sen ator Hitchcock delivered prepared address explaining attitude toward the shipment of munitions to the all lies before the United States entered the war. He had been mentioned in communications of German ss fa- vorable to this proposal. Senator Hitchcock recalled that his attitude on the subject was well known, since he had introduced bill to make such shipments unlawful. Like oth- CT Americans. he said, his views had undergone change. He first fsvor- ed peaceful neutrality, he said then armed neutrality, and finally dec laraticn of war.
 The committee adiourned today un- til Friday. when German propaganda will be further incurred into it was said. Witnesses will include denutv attorney general Becker, of New York, and Francis Garvin of the bu- erau of investigation of the alien property custodian's office.
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