Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-18
!, J, Dickinson Tells Investi- 1
eating Committee That, He
Simply Guessed What the
: President Would Say,
TELLS OF ATTEMPT
TO REMOVE TUMULTY
Letter to Viereck Declares
: That in 1916 Lansing Grow
ing Cold Toward Pro-Ger-
man Writers.

Washington, Jan. III. j. D.ck-
inson, mentioned in testimony before
thesenate committee investigating
German propaganda as Washington
representative of George sylvester
Wreck, testified today before the
committee. He said he represented
Wreck until February, 1917. when
the United States broke relations
with German and wrote articles for
The Fatherland under the name of
Josiah Wingate in which he UNDER
took to reflect the views of w. j.
Bryan. Referring to his relations
with Mr.. Bryan. then secretary of
state, the witness said Mr., Bryan
knew nothing of his connection with
Wreck.
Dickinson went into the story OF
the so-called leak in advance of
! one of Pres dent Wilson's addresses
to congress Just before the war start
. rsssr'asw ~ ais of Harris. Winthrop
and Company, New York. the day be-
fore the speech was delivered fore.
| casting the presidents action. He
said his forecast was pure dope" and
that he gave it to Harris for use in
the market because the latters firm
was his client. He said he sent a
similar message to Vierek.
Really No Leak.
"As a matter of fact there was no
leak at ALL" asked Senator Nelson.
No, there was no leak, Just doped
ii out that the president would make
the speech just like Bernard NJ. Ba-
ruch did and he made considerable
sum of money on it,
When the house rules committee
began its leak" investigation Dick
inson said he found his original mes
sage and took it to Secretary Tumul-
ty who, he said, was being accused of
having given out the advance infor-
nation of the presidents speech. Mr..
Tumulty asked him to make the in
formation 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,
Copies from the military intelli-
gence service files of letters written
by Dickinson were read. They pur-
ported to record the activities of
Dickinson and his conversations with
persons high in official life including
President Wilson, during the months
that preceded the break with Ger
many.
Lansing Grows Cold.
The following letter, said to have
been written June 4, 1916. by Dick
inson to Viereck. was read:
II learned yesterday from an au-
thoritative source that the president
had been informed that Secretary
Lansing's attitude toward every news
mn ~, % Oh In ntrfa ,,I.a 1ih
its even a sense of fairness toward
! German interests is growing more in
sulting every day | told member
of the cabinet of this some time ago
and l expect it is this that is bearing
fruit.
II was not here when Bryan was
last in Washington, but have
learned that he will give the Wilson
| cause only the most perfunctory sup
port in the campaign This will also
mark the course of Speaker Clark.
II don't know whether told you
In one of my last letters the story re-
lated by Mrs. Bryan to r. H. Pick
ford local democrat magnate OF
the immediate cause of her husband IS
precipitate retirement from the cab
met. 1t was that Tumulty told a
prominent German American that
Bryan was the sole cause of the adj
ministration's anti-German policy
Pickford went to Tumulty with the
story and the atmosphere of the
White House was blue with curses OF
the Bryans at the time Pickford was
/ there. Pickford has since written to
Mrs. Bryan full account of his in
terview with Tumulty"
Would Gust Tumulty.
This matter could be so worked
up as to force Wilson to rid himself o.
rumulty. What suggestions have yol
to make as to its handling? I believ,
1t is too big an opportunity to be neg
/ lected. Mrs. Bryan possibly would b,
| willing to come out in an open state
! ment. She is very able and yer,
determined woman. She loaths th
whole Wilson outfit. especially Tu
multy the tumultous."
The following was said to have beer
written June .. 1915. by Dickinson t,
| yiereck.
Il showed Tumulty this mornin.
your very interesting statement in th'
New York Evening Post of Nyednes
| day. He manifested an unusually keel
concern. asking me ii l thought yoi
| would support the president or tn,
republican nominee at Chicago If h.
| were other than Roosevelt. coul,
hot answer so pointed a question
| This only demonstrated how anxiou
the administration people are grow