Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-12-11
HEARST QUOTED.
IN TELEGRAMS.
To PROVE HIS.
PRO-GERNAN|SM
Private Instructions To Edi-
tors Barred Scathing Con
demnation Of Gregory
Read - "Zim m erman
Note" Pronounced Forg-
ery-Famous Doctor"
Dispatch Gets Publicity
TRepubIican A. P. leased wire1

Republican A. P. Leased Wirel
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Copies of
instructions telegraphed by William
r. Hearst to the editors of his newspa-
pers, and Of other messages received
and sent by him at Palm Beach, Fla.
early in 1917, just before the United
States entered the war, were read to-
day into the record of the senate COM
mittee investigating brewers and Ger
man propaganda. They were taken
from the files of the department of JUS
tice and given to the committee by A.
Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau of
investigation.
Mr.. Hearsts messages directed that
editorials advocating embargo on ship
ments of munitions and food to the
allies be prepared for his New York pa
pers instructed that a referendum
peace vite" in the election districts in
each city where Hearst organs were
printed, be taken, and that Winsor
McCay prepare a cartoon for the New
York American, showing the United
states and Germany shaking their fists
at each other, and a huge Japanese
bending forward awaiting to strike
Uncle Sam" in the back.
Other of the kilograms related to the
famous Zimmerman note, in which
Germany proposed an alliance with
Mexico and Japan, and which The As
sociated Press revealed to the world.
One message, signed Doctor and
sent from Palm Beach, said the note
probably was a forgery prepared by
the attorney general ito frighten con-
gress into giving the president the
powers he demanded. and perhaps also
into passing the espionage bill"
This telegram was dated March 2
and was sent after Van Hamm," at
New York, had telegra phed Hearst, at
Palm Beach, a copy of the instruc-
tions as sent by DR.. Alfred thinner:
mann, German foreign secretary, to
German Minister Won Eckhardt in
Mexico, through Won Bernstorff. now
in possession of the United States gov
eminent"
Prof Hart Is Heard
On March 1, S. S. Carvalho of the
New York American, sent Mr.. Hearst a
telegram saying that Senator Swanny
(Swanson) of Virginia announced in
senate this morning that he was au-
thorized by the president to state that
Zimmerman note to Mexico was text
ually correct. Lansing made same an
nouncement from state department
and asked: viii you outline such edi-
torial as you want printed?'
Before the kilograms were read into
the record, the committee heard DR.
Albert Business Hart of Harvard uni
versity, whose name was contained ir
q list Of important names" found in
the diary of DR.. Karl f.. Feuhr, a Ger
man propa gandist. DR.. Hart, who has
two sons in the army, entered an en-
phatic denial of pro-German tendencies
and declared he was strongly anti
German before and after the United
States entered the war.
Messages from Elihu. Root anC
Charles w. Eliot, vouchAg for DR.
Hart's loyalty, were received by Chair
man Overman and placed in the record
In the senate, during the day. Sen
ator Hitchcock delivered a prepared
address explaining his attitude towarc
the shipment Of munitions to the allies
before the United States entered the
war. He had been mentioned in com
munications of German agents as IA
vorable to this proposal. Senator
Hitchcock recalled that his attitude OF
the subject was well known, since HI
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