The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-18
DENIED INTERVIEW LETTER

There were more than score of the
 letters and Dickinson admitted writing ali of them except the one describing the alleged interview at Shadow Lawn He said he thought sViereck must have framed up that letter and signed his name to 1t.
 Dickinson went into the story of the
 so-called Teak in advance of one Of President Wilson's addresses to Congress p5ust before the war started. He said
 he sent message to John F. Harris, of Harris, Winthrop & Co.,. of New York, the day before the speech was delivered
 forecasting the Presidents action He
 sa i'd his forecast was pure dope" and
 that he gave it to Harris for use in the
 ma rket because the latter's firm was his
 client
 He said he sent a similar message to Viereck
 "As matter of fact there was no leak
 at all?" asked Senator Nelson.
 "No, there was leak I just doped it out that the President would make
 the speech just like Bernard M. Baruch did and he made a considerable sum of money on it."
 When the House rules committee began it's investigation, Dickinson said he found his original message and took it to Sec retary Tumulty, who, he said, was be- ing accused of having given out the ad- vance information of the Presidents s speech MT. Tumulty asked him to make
 the information public, he added, and he gave the message to the chairman of
 the rules committee, but that was the
 last he ever heard of it.
 SECRET NAVAL ORDERS
 Under date of July 20, 1916, Dickinson
 wrote Viereck another letter in which
 he said:
 "Our navy has haen Sacret1v instructed
 to work against the interests of the cen tral powers A considerable element of
 the navy whom I happen to know person.
 ally, is opposed to discrimination be- tween the nations; but most of the ele-
 ment is favorably inclined toward the
 Teutonic element. If we can arrange to
 get together the various elements which
 in detail may be opposed to the British
 programme but may indorse our general
 programme without admitting that they
 do so, I am confident that we may ac-
 complish something worth while.'' Asked by Major Humes where he got
 his information about the navys secret orders. he replied that he obtained it from the same sources of information
 that are open to all newspaper men. On August 20, 1916. Dickinson wrote Vie reck that before President Wilson called
 the "big railroad managers" to the White
 House for conference on the railroad situation, he had prepared his statement and gave it to the newspapers through Secretary Tumulty, while the conference was in session.
 This incident" wrote Dickinson, ''so savours of Wilson's cunning and craft that I think it could be used as a good text for an article in the Fatherland." :" In letter dated June 4, 1916. Dickin- son wrote Viereck that Secretary Lan- sings apparently unfriendly attitude to- ward Germany had been reported to the President and that Mir Wilson's frame of mind because of the political outlook
 might Head him to almost any outburst against Lansing or other cabinet off cers who may fall under just criticism because of their unnatural attitude to- ward Germany"
 EXPECTED RESIGNATION "In spite of denials from the White House recently of friction between Lan-
 sing and Wilson,, said the letter, II
 would not be at all surprised if Lansing
 would leave the cabinet, possibly because of failing health within a few weeks.
 The republican campaign managers are raking his Mex ican relations and activi- ties past and present, with a fine-toothed comb. This the President knows, too. confidently expected to have photo- graphic copies of certain of his financial transactions with the Huerta government at the city of Mexico within a couple of weeks. At any rate. I have been faithfully promised this by responsible representatives from Mexico City that at tested copies will be sent me-" Dickinson. in a statement to the com mittee as to his reasons for writing the letters. said his ''chief objective always was to render what aid I could to the
 movement to keep the country out of war and to hold to the support of the demo-
 cratic party and President Wilson the so-
 called German-American and the so-called