New-York tribune., 1919-01-10

OF Welcome.'
WOMAN's REPUBLICAN CLUB, 54
West Fortieth Street: I'VE shall be
happy to join the Citizens Committee
OF Welcome and you may count on our
active cooperation"
THE BETHANY DAY NURSERY. 4o2
West Sixty Street: "We should
be very glad to have the name of our
organization added to the Citizens
Committee of Welcome for the return
ing soldiers, sailors and marines"
SOCIETY Or AMERICAN OFFICERS,
IL Gramercy Park "If the welcome to
our returning forces is to be on the
broad basis this society will be glad
to JON with you and any others whose
patriotism is neither doubted nor
questioned, and do anything we can
to add to tho boys welcome"
Lawrence b. Gilman, $40 Madison
Avenue: II shall be glad to serve on
the Citizens Committee Of Welcome.
tlon, but when | found Mr.. Hearst was
serving on it sent tive following letter
of resignation, which has not even been
acknowledged by the Mayors secre
tary:
"'Whcn | first heard that Mr. Will
lam Randolph Hearst was a member Of
the Mayors committee of welcome to
homecoming troops, | felt that his ap
lointment was probably in payment for
1avors which the Mayor had received
at his hands. In view of the Mayors
extraordinary attitude in dcnouncing
men who have refused to serve on the
committee with William Randolph
Hearst and his making an issue Of Mr..
tcarst's character IN the community
de not feel that can conscientously
serve on any committee which the
Mayor might appoint. and I therefore
herewith request that my resignation
be Immediately accepted and my name
withdrawn from this committee
From the time of the murder Of
Mckinley till tho present Mr.. Hearst's
rapers have been opposed, and they
have bittcrly assailed many of the men
who | consider arc the best citizens
of this country, and the recent position
of his papers on The question: of Amcri-
canism and his bitter attacks on our
allies would seem to preclude any one
with ordinary Judgment from appoint
ing him to an important committee"
Four-Minutc Men Protest
Eleven patriotic speakers, members
of the Four Minute Men. have written
to Mayor Hylan expressing their feel
lngs with regard to his appointment
of Hearst to be sub chairman on the
city's Committee of Welcome. These
men signed the letter: Dr. Herbert
Noble, chairman; Howard Orton Wood,
Stephen II. Voris, William l.. Savacool,
Wilfred A. Sobcy, Conrad " Quist,
Joseph c. jain, Joseph f. Ferguson,
G. II. McNair, William II. Kaufman
and Richard b. Duycknck. Their let
ter to the Mayor reads as follows:
"The undersigned, recently honor
Oh IL !, Il
the United States. Four Minute Men.
engaged in spreading government mes
sages in Jamaica, l.. L., and vicinity,
at meeting held to-day solemny and
earnestly protest to your honor
against the appointment of w. r.
Hearst on the Committee of Welcome
to our returning soldiers and respect
fully, but in the name of patriotism,
request his removal from such COM
mittee.
Would Have Been No Welcome
1--WE call your attention to the fact
that had Mr.. Hearst's advice been fol-
lowed by President Wilson and Con-
gress there would have been no SOL
diers to welcome, for all would have
been kept at home. Had this hap
pened the Imperial German govern
ment might have won the war, and
Judged false TO all the ideals for
which it went to war and for which
President Wilson has so often and so
nobly spoken.
owe suggest that it is unfair to
our soldiers and sailors, unable to
protest themselves, that there be i'm
posed upon them the presence of one
whose name is synonymc for disloy-
atty and whose confessed use of the
American flag to make his papers look
American and help sell them has dis
gusted decent citizens"
Lewis III. Scheuer, government ap-
peal agent of Local Exemption Board
112. at "a Avenue A, has written
to Mayor Hylan's secretary as follows:
Il beg to acknowledge receipt of
your letter Of December 81, wherein
you ask that ! accept an appointment
as member of the Committee of
Welcome to Homecoming troops While
much appreciate the honor, and un-
der other circumstances would have
been pleased to accept, | must now
Mr.. Hearst on that committee.
Hearst Should Resign
at seems to me that it is quite be-
side the mark now to discuss the
patriotism or lack of patriotism shown
by Mr.. Hearst prior to our entrance
into the war with Germany and since
that time. | am however, fully per
suaded that if Mr.. Hearst were now
sincerely patriotic he would resign
from position which has caused so
much adverse comment as to compel
the resignation of so many men of
standing from the committee, or their
refusal to serve, and has entirely de-
stroyed the unity and spontaneity of
the welcome to returning troops, who
deserve so much"
After canvass by one or two mem
bers of Hamilton Sleight Post, No. 20.
G; A. r., at Poughkeepsie, the names
Of 80 Poughkeepsians attached to
resolutions of protest were sent to
Mayor Hylan of New York. The resolu-
tlons, adopted one week ago, roundly
condemn the selection of William r.
Hearst to act as chairman of the sub
committee on military affairs of the
general Committee Of Welcome and
state that he is unfit to serve.
Recalls Paper Bonfire
1t was a little hand of these vet
erans who on a warm day last June
publicly tore up and burned in front
Of the county courthouse in that CITY
all available copies of "The New York
American" because it had printed 81