The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-26
ANSWERS PALMER CHARGES

New York, January 8.-Denying that he ever acted as counsel for the German embassy, and maintaining hs had never had any business, social or professional relations with Captain Boy-Ed. Samuel Untermyer tonight is- sued the following statement in reply to Attorney General Palmer's charges:
 "I have just been shown at 10 o'clock tonight, Mir. Palmcrs lying and oft re- futed statement concerning my alleged activities before our country entered the war. They have been again and again publicly exploded and no one knows it better than he does. insisted on ap- pear1ng before the Overman committee and disproving them at that time. I then demonstrated:
 "1. That I had never at any time acted as counsel for the German am. bassy or for anyone connected with 1t and had never received dollar of their money, and that I had repeatedly refused to accept retainers from them when the most eminent lawyers in the country were accepting them as they and I had the right to do.
 "'2. That I never met Boy-Ed but once in my life. never had any business, social or political relations with him aud Eever wrote him a letter in my fife
 "'3. That after diplomatic relations were severed and that after we entered the war, that opened recruiting stations on the Lower East side for voluntary enlistments at a time when it was un- certain whether the conscription act would be passed
 4 During the war I spent a large part of my time in government service in Washington, paying my own expenses besides subscribing for $s0oo,000 of gox- ernment bonds of the various loans and Ftraveling the country for months also at my expense, making speeches on the various liberty loans
 While Mir. Marshall does not happen to be my partner and has not been for over seven years, and I did not know of. and had no interest in the cases he IS said to be conducting for his clients, we are close friends and associates. I have no doubt that he is engaged in the legitimate protection of the rights of his clients.
 T knew members of the German em- bassy when we were at peace with Ger many as did many men in public and private life in Washington and else where, but I never had anything to do with their affairs and at no time dis cussed questions of the export of anl- intuition or. political questions, although II would have had the absolute right to do so~if had so chosen, as did mem bers of the United States Senate and public officials. The refernce to MT. Lindheim, first as a former associate, which he knew to be false, and now as relative, which he is not, are intended only to mislead and are on par with his other assertions.
 But I thought the war was over. and pray what on earth has this job lot of cold, exploded lies to do with my cate gorical charges against this rcrreant and incompetent public officer, who now adds to his other offenses the still more hein- Sous one of using the archives of his of- flee to attack men who have the courage to criticize his maladmnistration
 The certificate of character I gave him in July, 1919, when his confirmation was being opposed, which he now quotes, was written before I knew of his per- formances and they were generallv known