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Show TRACING THE PEACE NOTE LEAK. Political capital is being manufae-Hj manufae-Hj 'lured by this "leak" sensation, which 'is the all-absorbing subject of inves-Hj inves-Hj tigatlon in Washington Congressman 1 Wood of Indiana is leading in the dis- closures which so far are based on -jj what in every-day affairs would be i termed scandal gossip, but is known as hearsay in the congressional discus- Hj Tho "leak" should be traced, but up HL to the present the evidence offered H has been of the flimsiest, seemingly Hl dictated by an attempt at party ad- H vantage and without any earnest de- sire to serve the purposes of good gov-'eminent. gov-'eminent. On the day following the giving out U of the peace message, the Standard j editorially commented on the evidence to be found in the stock market of a jleak. That there was advance infor-fmation infor-fmation in the bands of the manipu jlators was clearly shown, bu thai B; i does not mean Wilson's message was a.re innumerable ways by which the j laecrecy of the peace note could have I been broken without anyone being Bg dishonorably involved in transmitting Bj the message to Europe, the opportu- mty for a leak was multiplied to large BJ 1 proportions. Hj' It will be interesting though to Hg know just how the carefully handled j I document found the "underground" to Wall street. |