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Show EDITOR DEIS HTTAEI(1 F000 Chicago Newspaper Man Chief Witness in Alleged Libel Hearing. MOUNT CLKMKXS, Mich., July 2. Tiffany Blake, testifying today in Il.c Henry Fortl-Chicao Tribune libel suit, recited reasons why lie. ;i5 hi a of liie editorial depart ment of the Tribune, gave approval to the editorial headed "Fortl is an anarchist.'' on which the million dollar litigation is founded. Before Mr. Blake was called the time was taken up with the test iiuonv uf Col. Henry ,. Tfeiily, -who coninuinded the artillery regiment known a.s h'eil-ily's h'eil-ily's bucks, in the J-Jainhow division in France and a' lonir deposition from James W. Gerard, former Unit-ed States ambassador to Germany. Mo stated that, at the embassy x bo Ford peace ship Oscar IT. was known 4 "the eood ship Nutty.". German official opinion was that the T'nited Srates did imt want to fitfht, and cnuldii 't do so even if it so wished. Gernuinv regarded pacifist propaganda in IP 1.1 as t avoidable avoid-able to her, because any peaee at that time must bn to her advantage. Jr. was the kaiser, he said, who declared that ''America had better look out after the war. ' ' When Mr. Blake was sworn, A 1 1 or-ney or-ney Kirkland of counsel for the Tribune Trib-une a sited him to state why ho :t-proved :t-proved the charact erizalinu nf the manufacturer as "'an anarchist." 1 ' Because, ' ' said t he wi ! ness, ' ' at a time when t he Uni ted States was in grave danger, he advocated the destruction de-struction of our army a nd navy ; because be-cause he said he did not believe in patriotism; pa-triotism; because, with the world in flames, he opposed preparedness; because be-cause he said the flair should be pulled down and because he said that soldiers were muvdereri. ' ' |