New-York tribune., 1919-01-06

Escher. jr., lawyer. whose office is in
26 Exchange Place. Mr.. Escher is 4
member of Local Draft Board 1873. In
reply he wrote to the Mayors secre-
tary
'Your invitation to become mem
Der Of the Mayors Committee of Wei
come to Homecoming Troops has been
received 1t was sent to me, presum
ably. because of my connection with
Local Draft Board 1873 OF this. city.
After having spent d good portion
of the last year and a half in assisting
in raising our army. don't feel like
being associated with Mn. Hearst, who
has spent the same period in opposing
everything that army stands for.
Nor ] know, will the boys who come
back be able to comprehend the zeal
which he now displays in their behalf
and which was so nspicuously lack
ing on his part at the time when most
of them went away. Their inability to
understand of course, is due to the
fact that they have been fighting for
their country in France instead of
playing politics at home
"Kindly convey to the Mayor the cX-
preston Of my appreciation Of his invi-
tation and my regret in being unable,
for the foregoing reasons. to accept
the same.
George Zabriskie Resigns
The Mayors secretary also has re
ceived from George zabriskic, of the
law firm of Zabriskic, Sage, Kerr &
Gray, his resignation from the com
mittce In his letter of resignation
Mr.. Zabriskic wrote:
when | accepted the invitation of
his honor the Mayor to Join his com
mittec for the reception of returning
soldiers and sailors did not under
stand that Mr.. William X. Hearst was
4 member of the same committee and
was charged with important responsi-
blitcs in connection with it. If | had
50 understood | should have asked to
be excused from serving on the com
mittce on two general grounds first,
because his sympathies and the in
Auence of his papers have been openly
and notorously on the side of our foes
and against the cause of human lib
crty, which brought first the Allied ma
tions of Europe and then this Republic
into the war; second, because find in
the letter Of culogy which his honor
the Mayor has published very strik-
ing antithcsis between the standard Of
devotion to the public interest which
his honor has been misled to attribute
to Mr.. Hearst and the standard of cx-
ploitation of public emotion for per-
sonal advantage. by which Mr. Hcarst's
career shows him to have been actu-
atcd
81 therefore regret to he obliged to
dissociatc myself from Mr.. Hearst by
resigning from the Mayors committee. y
J. G. Myers Promptly Refuses
John Caldwell Myers is one of those
invited to join the committee within
the last few days. MIR. Myers's refusal
Was sent promptly. 1t was as follows:
81 have just received your letter of
December 81, 1918, stating that my
name has been suggested to the Mayor
Tor appointment on a committee of wei
come to homecoming troops, and that
upon receipt of my acceptance Ger
tihcate of membership Will be mailed
to me.
81 should consider it great privi-
ege to serve on a committee Of well
como that was properly conceived and
constituted, but do not think that New
York City will be able fittingly to wei
come and honor its heroic sons through
any committee Of which William Ran
dolph Hearst is member. For that
reason respectfully decline the ap-
pointment rendered nc"