Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-13
SENATOR'S POSITION
AIf.|} Mr.. WILSON s
WERE IDENTICAL
4What Would Constitution
Be Printing About Me If
Congress Had Investigated
81 81 IS It Did PaIner?".
BY ROGERS WRITER
(staff Correspondent Of the JournaN

By EoGEEs WRITER
(staff Correspondent Of tho Journal>
WAYNESBORO, Ga. April 12.-ln
his speech here today to the voters
of Burke and adjoining counties.
Senator Hoke Smith took occasion
TO reply to the charge repeatedly
made by the Atlanta Constitution,
. the Macon Telegraph and one or two
other papers in Georgia that he at
tempted to justify the. sinking OF
the Lusitania, and in addition to de-
nouncing the charge as another mis-
cradle and cowardiy lie, in keeping
With the campaign of SANDER being
I; waged against him by his old edi-
: torial enemies, Senator Smith called
attention to the senate investigation
pf charges that a. Mitchell Palmer
. while member Of congress, pro
cured from President Wilson an1
furnished to DR.. Albert. the notorious
German agent, certain confidential!
information regarding the presidents
attitude concerning the Lusitania
outrage,
Voted to Confirm Palmer
If the private papers of DR.. Albert,
lost in a New York subway are ex-
posed by the New York World, had
2 mentioned the name of Senator Smith
and implicated him in any such
>. manner. remarked the senator in dis
= GUESSING this matter, how many pages
( would the Atlanta Constitution. the
Macon Telegraph and other papers in
Georgia be devoting to it now:
Senator Smith voted with other sen
ators to confirm Mr.. Palmer as at
torney general because he believed
MIR. Palmer had no relations with
DIR. Albert. and that the information
obtained from the president by NJ.
Palmer got into the hands of DR.,
Albert accidentally and without M,
Palmer's knowledge or consent. He
mentioned the matter as showing the
far fetched absurdity of the Con-
stitutions rehash of the New YORK
Worlds exposure of the campaign
launched by the German-American
alliance a few months prior to the
national conventions in 1916.
Charge Utterly False
Regarding the Lusitania mat
ter, SenatorG Smith Eaid: ga num-
be- Of papers continue TO pub
Hsh that on some occasion used
the following language: 1T is
i my opinion that the government
CT the United States should not
go to war with Germany because
CT he- having sunk the good
e-s% -,1{1
fea the American people TO stay
CT the high seas, and We Should
have done it,
81 have never made such
statement. The charge that dii
is utterly false. AS to the sink
Jig Of the Lusitania, President
Wilson took the position that it
was not cause for war, and I
supported him in that position.
Fay arch enemy, the Atlanta Con-
stitution, day afteS day, follow
ing the sinking of the Lusitan:a,
urged the same view.
"The Lusitauia was sunk May
C, 1915. Germany cid not TO-
t.fy Americans to stay off the
high seas until the first Cay of
y February, 1917. Therefore, the
falsiIy and absurdity of the lat
ter part of the statement attrib-
uSsd to ne are apparent. I'M
a meaiately after Gerrnany's mott
fication that Americans musS
Keep off the high seas I support
ed earnestly the bill TO arm
American merchant vessels. MY
s1anderers seem to have entirely
forgotten that not only was
President Wilson's position iden-
ticaI with mine with reference
to the sinking OF the LrSitan5a,
hut that more tEan one year
after the stupid ana brutal act on
the part of the German subzna-
1ine commander. President VII
sen was unanimously reno1n-nat-
ea by his party and reelected
by tse American people Oh the
Platform tEst he "kspt US out Of
TAG wal"
Right to ship to EeEt%a13
- Discussing the New York World
axBosure Of DR.. Albert's private pa
pers anc me demands OF that news
Z paper for all investigation of n.
Mitchell Palmer before he should be
confirmed by the senate as attorney
general, Senator Smith said:
The Constitution on Sunday morn
r. ing published columns describing
German organizations and German
propaganda 4ound in the tinted
States during 1915 and 1916. before
the entered tie war with Germany
Out of this they secured the state
ment that Senator Smith said tho
United States will do business with
all countries They need not have
hunted up Germany authority on this
.kubject. fer in my speech on ths
%4oor Of the senat on January 20
1916. l demonstrated the right Of
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