The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15
Palmer Says Rich Germans FL
nanced Organ at Capital to
Influence Congress.
WET PLOTTING REVEALED
Accusation Forces Candidate
for Governor Off Ticket
in Pennsylvania.
Special Despatch to TuH Sun.

inc very enadOw OF the Capitoi, was
denounced to-day by A. Mitchell Palmer
as liquor organ, financed by German
brewers for the purpose OF lighting the
battle OF the liquor traffic
Mr.. Palmer, who Is National Com
mitteeman as well as Allen Property
Custodian, made the charge before the
Pennsylvania Democratic State Com
mittee during n bitter attack upon Scna-
tor Penrose, the liquor interests, Judge
Eugene c. Bonniwell and the railroad
and manufacturing interests. which he
said use Senator Penrose AS CONDUIT
through which to operate
He addressed the committee while
resolution was pending before It, calling
for the reputation of Judge Bonniwell
as the party's candidate for Governor.
When he finished the resolution was
parsed with only two negative votes.
| Judge Bonniwell, therefore goes before
the electors as an outcast from the
recognized State organization.
The committee Endorsed all Of the
other candidates The platform adopted
is silent on prohibition. but expresses
pride and confidence" in President Will
son, indorses the country's war aims
and favors woman suffrage.
Park II. Davis. chairman OF the Reso-
buttons Committee. presented the Bonni-
we'll resolution to the committee soon
after II convened, setting forth the basic
charges made against the candidate and
calling for the Endorsement OF all the
Democratic candidates except the head
Of the ticket.
Accused OF Secret Tactics.
Mr.. Palmer in his attack upon Senator
Penrose and the liquor men declared
they are using secret means to defeat
prohibition and control not only political
| parties hut the Government Itself.
"The organized liquor traffic OF this
State" he said. Through its old conduit
seeks to fool the people into the belief
that the Democratic party is fighting Tor
personal liberty. when as matter OF
fact its candidate is the instrument and
tool of this same liquor traffic.
Vet me say to you as an Illustration
Of the length to which these interests
will go that facts will soon appear which
will conclusively show that twelve OF
fifteen German brewers of America, In
association with the United States Brew
ers Association. furnished the money
amounting TO several hundred thousand
dollars, to buy a great newspaper In one
OF the chief cities OF the nation: and
its publisher. without disclosing whose
money had bought that organ OF public
opinion in the very capital OF the ma
tion. in the shadow OF the Capitol itself
has been fighting the battle Of the liquor
traffic.
THAT money was placed there under
methods and by contrivances clevefly de
signed to keep secret forever who 1t wal
that put the money into that great news
paper and the purpose for which It wa.
there. Now. 7 say to you that when THU
traffic. doomed though 1t be. undertakes
and seeks by these secret method
, ~
machinery, whole political parties. an
I thereby control the government OF Stat
and nation, 1t is time that the peopl
know the truth. and II Is time that we a
| Americans. as Pennsylvanians and a
Democrats stand for the truth. no mat
ter who gets hurt in the process"
, Liquor Organ Is Not Named.
> Mr.. Palmer refused to name the news
|. paper to which he referred. Pressed TO
information. he said:
ct have nothing more to say about 1t
this time"
THE organized liquor traffic of tn
country ia a vicious interest because
: has been unpatriotic: because It has bee
pro-German in its sympathies and II
conduct" Mr. Palmer continued. ''Wh,
you and know perfectly well that II
around these great brewery organiza
lions. owned by rich men. almost all c
them OF German birth and sympathy, 6
least before we entered the war that ha
s grown up. all the organizations of TIL
= country intended to keep young Germa
e emgrants from becoming real America
= citizens. II Is around the saengerfes'
q and the saengerbunds and organization
d of that kind. generally financed by tn
n rich brewers. that the young German
who come to America are taught to n
/. member. first. the fatherland, and. sex
ond. America"
4, Mr.. Palmer in his address asserte
that neither Senator Penrose, Juds
Bonniwell, nor John Slnnott. presldei
Of the Wholesale Liquor Dealers ASS
. citation OF Pennsylvania, had denied u
u essential charges he made against ther
y Bonniwell. he said. would not deny thi
he attempted to line up the State fir
" men for Senator Sproul, because IL
did the firemen would contradict him.
b He says he was not In the pay
l. Penrose." declared the National Con
"a mitteeman. "but he overlooks the IA
'r that Penrose Is not the only paymaste
n but that he actually was working Il
ID Sproul. Does Sproul deny It? He do
ii not.
"The charges made against Bonniwt
Il. and the evidences Of what has been dol
n are really beside the issue" he CO..
D. tinued. They are mere details, shoy
W ing the track OF tho monster. but tn,
10 furnish evidence of bigger and
Is greater conspiracy against our citizen
Of What have we been fighting in Pennsy
err vania? The Republican party which HI
,e made itself a tool OF vicious interest
which seek to control the Sovernme
IN and deceive the people.
nj I'VE have shown Penrose to he a me
o. conduit through which these interes
~ have operated for years. They are q
"a protective tariff interests, the railroi
Va interests and the liquor interests.
10 OF them are behind Penrose and tn
- have Pennsylvania in their "Trip.
.e only reason for being IN politics Is
- fight them while live. The pow
-. of the first two OF these interests h
CO been shaken and the third soon will
destroyed"
William NJ. Berry, Collector OF I
Port of Philadelphia, voiced stingi
rebuke OF Judge Bonniwells candidat
Never again." he asserted, will a
IN candidate however exaggerated his Q
may be. have the efrrontery to demar
on the strength of a primary vote of Il
W than 90 per cent. OF the Democrats.
ne right to make platform and .demandi
Dr. the resignation OF another candidate W
ID. was nominated in the same primary
ew Lawrence II. Rupp. the new charm
TO of the committee, presided. Vance
Mccormick, chairman of the Democrs
OF National Committee, came from Was
M ington this morning TO attend the me
ed Ing. He spoke but few moments.
mt real purpose of the Bonniwell candida
he he said. was merely to further the he
Up of Senator Penrose that Democra
Of Congress candidates in Pennsylvan
Ter may be defeated.
Ter Judge Bonniwell. who ignored a
ar hafn ha nv,att