New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
Challenges Statement :,
Publisher About Relation.
With German Spy
Attorney General
Again Leading Fight
Issues Statement Chare;n,
Alliance Exists Between
Hearst and Whitman

Attorney General Merton f. lew.
disabled and on crutches, resumed n.,
sonal direction of his campaign for y.
Republican nomination for Govern,
yesterday at the Murray Hill Hotel
He charged there is an alliance \.
tween Governor Whitman and Willie.
r. Hearst, and asserted that wh,.
Hearst said in his formal staten.,,
that his only conversation with RAJ,
Pacha, the German spy executed BY n.
French government, was with refersr,,
to the cost of paper, he knew he Va,
making a wrong statement He a.
manded of Governor Whitman that \,
tell the public what it was that Artbn,
Brisbane, chief editorial writer for N,
Hearst, said to him at the st. Rsc,
hotel when he called on the Goyer,,
last week.
Mr.. Lewis's Statement
The Attorney Generals stateme,,
follows:
II have been confined in the Sarator,
hospital as a result of an automobi,
accident. AS necessary conseouenu
my campaign for the Republican nom
lnatlon for Governor has Jagged some
what. In other words, the punch h,,
been missing. The reason, of course i
the man with the punch has not bee,
on the job He Will be on the Job from
to-day until primary day. There vii
be punch every day.
II expect to win and shall exert ever
effort to accomplish that result.
The alliance between Governs
Whitman and his oldtime supports,
William R. Hearst, will be dissecte
and exposed. | shall show between no,
and primary day the real purpose Of tk
combination between Hearst and Whit
/ man.
The antagonism of Mr.. Hears
toward me became apparent for the frs
time when | investigated the activitie
of Bolo Pacha. At that time Mr.. Hear,
SAID IN statement which he signs
and which was published in his papers
1 met Bolo Pacha merely as a Frent
newspaper man, the reputed represents
tive of the Paris journal" He cam
+ to me and said: you use more nriD
paper than any other man in the Unite
States. VIII you tell me where to re
the best and cheapest? Print paper
almost unobtainaple in Paris" ,ol
him where we got our print paper an
what we paid tor it, and gave him al
the information about the paper marke
that | could, and that any newspaps,
2 man with any courtesy would natursB
give to a visiting French Journal
Disputes Hearst's Word
The conversation was general and
trivial ,as it is at all such social din.
ners. That is all thai have ever
known or seen or heard of Bolo Pachs
| defy the Attorney General to disproye
any word in this statement of mine OF
to substartiate any one of his own un
warranted implications. Should hg
fail to do SO | shall proceed against th.
small Attorney General of the gres
State Of New York for petty and pre-
meditated slander.'
Mr.. Hearst knew when he made thi
statement that IL was false He knows
1t now. | know it, and during the next
thirty days / shall prove to the salts
faction of every one that Mr. Hear:
dellberately told an untruth when h
SAID, That is all have ever known o.
seen or heard of Bolo Pacha.'
shall show many other facts il
connection with the relations betwe,r
Hearst and Governor Whitman and ex
pect to convince the public that thes
men have long had close personal re
latlons and that they are leagued to
, gether. The purpose of this combins
tion between Hearst and Whitman viii
1 be made clearly apparent to the publ
before primary day.
Il now call upon Governor Whtmsl
to answer this question:: What d!
Brisbane say to Whitman at the TIM
he called upon him at the St. Reg!
Hotel few days ago ?"
Whitman Man Explains
Wait till Mr.. Lewis says somethlnl
specific about relations between Whf
man and Hearst and then the Governs
will reply to him" said one Of ia'
Governors lieutenants at the Manhss
tan hotel headquarters last nig''
Continuing, the Governors Represents
tive said:
The Attorney General, in his exps
ure of the relations between heaIs
and Bolo Pacha. whatever these rel,
tions were, is acting as the Governo...'
subordinate. The request to invesl,,
gate Bolo Pacha came from the fTehas
government to the authorities IN "ssn
ington, and from them to Governo
Whitman. All the papers were ID
spected by the Governor and M tufns'
over to the Attorney General with u y,
structions TO proceed with the inVesu
CATION. Governor Whitman was ID
portuned by agents representing theyI
selves as coming from Hearst to q, |.
off the investigation. but he refused
interfere with the Attorney Genelss:
Among the callers at Lewis ne.. e..
quarters yesterday were former "
poration Counsel Lamar Hardy ho'. :,
c. Morris. John A. Sleicher ara =. :.
Coroner Herman Hellenstein. Inc =;
ter lives in the district with Saniusl ~, :
Koenig. Republican county comlInIs.,.. -.
chairman, and he told Mr. Lewis =, =.
hundreds of Republicans in the "
trict had repudi lated Mr.. koenlg.