Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-09

what your purpose was for so doing?
You compare your attitude with that
of General Robert f. Lee, who, after
Virg1nia seeded, cast his lot with his
native State. Please tell the people
whether or not General Lee sowed the
South down with abolition literature
in order to produce strife and sedi-
| ton to injure the Southern cause af-
ter he had espoused it,
Twelfth-Please state to your hear
ers whether or not, on the IL tn da'
of August, 1917 -four months and five
days after the United States entered
the war against Germany, you deliv
cred to Paul Wooten, in Washington
a correspondent Of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, a typewriter inter.
view in which you used the following
language:
| 'Then again 1t was proposed II We
did not fight Germany now--stab her
in the back while England and
France have her dcwn--laat We
would have TO fight her alone, and
other excuses or causes, imaginary
and real, for war were assigned. Now
personally, | think the cause of this
war was the interference on the part
of Germany with commerce between
New York and London. | have al
ways thought it was purely a matter
OF pecuniary profit and | think SO
still. but | have no objection to dis
cussion. If the submarine warfare
had not interfered with business and
profits there would, in my judgment.
| probably have been no war"
Thirteenth-Explain to the people
whether or not it Is true that Paul
Wooten received information from
the Times-Picayune that you denied
the interview and that he rang you
| up in Washington and that you then
and there told him that the interview
was correct and that you did not
deny any part Of 1t. The Brookhav.
en- Leader, the News Register and
The Issue are all supporting you and
we naturally assumed that you read
them. Please explain to the people
whether or not you read the Brook.
haven Leader, published June 5.
| 1918, the News Register, published
March 1918 and The Issue, pub
lished April 4, 1918, all of which pa
pers admit that you used the Ian.
guage quoted from your interview,
which you delivered to Paul WOoten,
and if you did not use that language,
why did you not stop your political
organs from admitting that you
used it?
F0urteenth-Please explain why
you never denied the correctness OF
the interview until you made your
speech at AmOry. Tell the people
whether or not in the said interview
you used this language 81 have al.
ways thought it (meaning the war;
was matter of pecuniary profit and
think so still" And do you not say
that the United States entered tn,
war on account of pecuniary profits
In statement given to the press on
April 81, 1916, commenting on Prcsi
dent Wilson's address to Congress
touching Germany's Illegal suhmarin,
warfare, YOU are quoted as saving,
4 IF Congress shall permit the coun.
try to be drawn into war with Ger
many or any of the belligerant pow
ers for the reasons assigned by Presi
dent Wilson in his message, the mem
bers thereof shall deserve the eterna.
eXecration end final reputation a
the hands OF the American people.
Explain to the people whether yol
said that or not, and whether yol
, still feel that way about it?
Fifteenth-In a speech in the Sen
ate March 9. 1916, pages 3S4S-3S49
bound Record, first session, Sixty
fourth Congress, we read as follows
Germany has shown a disposition
to do well nigh any and everything
demanded by the United States in or
der to avoid war, and 1t is my delib
crate Judgment that if we shoul'
have war with Germany, and God for
bid that we may, it will be after Ger
9 many has made every possible con
-, cession to avoid II Germady ha
= been quite as respectful and observed
= the rules of international law in he
= dealings with the United States a
the allies. Really Germany has beel