The Washington herald., 1921-06-25
Rebukes His Reference to
"Jackass Votes" in Lon
don Speech. ;
SECRETARY RECALLS
PREVIOUS OFFENSE
Admiral Regrets Causing
Embarrassment to Ad-
ministration.


terday administered a public repri-
mand TO Rear Admiral William 6
Sims for statements in his recent
speech in London rejecting upon
thizers in America and upon the
houses Of Congress. legislatures and
other public bodies. which have
adopted resolutions OF sympathy
with the Irish republican cause.
The rebuke was conveyed to sims
at his hotel in a letter from Secre-
tary DENLY disapprovine two para
graphs of the correct text Of the
speech furnished by the admiral
one paragraph branding the Sim
Fein element in America as the
enemy of both Britain and America
and attributing Irish republican
resolutions 10 the influence Of jack
ass votes" and the other paragraph
predicting that the English-spesk-
ing peoples will yet be united in a
comradeship which will enable them
TO run this round globe"
Recall. Reprtmaud OF Taft.
The Secretary pronounced the Of
fense Of Admiral Sims aggravated
by his disregard Of the warning In
volved in his reprimand in 1911 by
President Taft for a speech in Lon
don, in which he said that IL their
empire ever was seriously mensced
by European coalition" the
British could count upon every
man. every dollar, every drop Of
blood Of your kindred across the
sea"
The department deplores the fact
that IL is necessary 70 rebuke nag
ofhcer in public. but you have made
the action unavoidable" the DENLY
letter of reprimand declared, and
continued:
The department expresses its
strong and unqualified disapprova
| Of your conduct in having again de-
| Iivered a highly improper speech IN
a foreign country. and you are
hereby publicly reprimanded.-
Ha.dIed by Secretary.
The repriman5 will be added to
the admiraTs record and pub
Ilished to the fleet" Secretary DENLY
said.
Was this reprimand administered
a the direction Of the President. as
/ in the case Of the reprimand OF
| 1912" the Secretary was asked
This is the Secretary Of the
/ Navy's case" replied the Secretary.
Then the President had nJthing
to do with this reprimand:"
No" replied Mr.. DENLY. grimiy.
This case was handled by the Sec
retary of the Navy
After receiving the reprimand Ad-
miral Sims went to the White Houss
/ by appointment TO pay the Prest-
dent a call Of courtesy. There is
reason to believe that the admiral
expressed his regret that he had oc-
casioned the administration any en-
barrassment.
Admit, He Spilled the Besns-
Did YOU have a pleasant CALI
the admiral was asked as he
emerged from the executive once.
Very pleasant" he replied.
Was this your first meeting2
'Oh. no: ! once sat between Scna-
tor Harding and Gov. Cox at lin-
erty loln drive dinner at Columbus.
Ohio"
when asked IL be had any COM
ment to make on his reprimand,
Sims replied:
Il was reprimanded. I got what
was coming TO me. I spilled the
] Deans. j al SbllN " haNN
the administration any embarrass-
ment Tue fact is. / didn't know il
was Ioaded-at least. so much"
The admiral departed last night
for Newport 20 resume his duties as
president Of the Naval War College,
in which position he is to remain.
$50 far as / know" he said
Text Of Reprimand-
I =
! mand follows:
Washington. June q. 1921.
From the Secretary Of the Navy:
Rear Admiral VIM. S. Sims, United
States Navy. -
Subject, reprimand.
lon June S. 1921. there ap-
peared in the public press through
out the country a report Of certain
statements alleged to have been
! made by you on the occasion OF a
luncheon given in London on the
previous day at which YOU were the
guest of the English-Speakins
! Union.
2-These public statements. II
correctly reported, dealt with mat
ters which properly should be the
| subject for comment by no hlgh
governmental Official other than one
10 whom the care OF our foreign
policy is entrusted.
Press Reports Confirmed.
3-Your letter Of June %, In
which YOU furnishs the department
! with an abstract of the speech de-
livered on the occasion in question.
| confirms in essential points the
aforesaid press reports and shows
that on a public occasion in for
| eign country you gave utterance 70
the following statements:
4 do not want to touch on
the irish question, for j know
nothing about il, and have not
run across anybody in England -
who does. But there are some
people in our own country who
| technically are Americans, some
of them naturalized and some
/ native born: but some Of them
are not really Americans at all.
Some Of the people are now
trying to destroy the good rela-
tions between our two coun-
tries They are Americans when
they want money, but Sim
Feiners when on the platform.
They are enemies OF ours and
yours They are like the zebra