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Show SAYS LUSITANIA GARRIEDPOWDER Dudley F. Malone Defends La Follette's Probe of British Liner's Cargo NEW YORK. Oct. 2 9 Dudley Field Malone candidate for governor on Lho Farmer-Labor ticket and former collector col-lector of the port of New York, In an address last night declared that when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine, she carried a consignment of 1200 cases of cartridprcs for the British government, which contained a total of nearly eleven tons of black powder. The assertion was inudo In citing the ease of Senator LaFollette, who charged that the Lusitania carried car-ried explosives for the British. Whin the record of the Wilson administration becomes a matter of open history," Mr Malone declared, "the world will realize that no government gov-ernment perpetrated sueh a reign of oppression and nccrecy upon a people" peo-ple" Mr. Malone said that when Senator IaKoilette declared the Lusitania carried car-ried explosives consigned to the British Brit-ish iMivernmeni. he was "Immediately slated for expulsion from the senate and so we all remember, came within h hair's breath of that fate " KVWl M I. WAS Hi 1 1 sEli. "When Senator LaFollette was on trial before the senatu elections committer, com-mitter, within his right as a senator," he continued, "he demanded from the treasury d: purf ment a copy of the re-poi re-poi t of the collector of the port of N W York on. the condition and cargo of tho "Lusitania The treasury department de-partment refened him to the slate department and the state department I lefused on the grounds that the report ' had become u part of the secret arch-I arch-I Ives. As it happened 1 wrote this re-! re-! port on the Lusitania, becuuse 1 had i examined the Lusitania In, my capacity , as collector of the port of New York. I And it was upon the evidence compiled by mi- that the Luxi-tanlu Luxi-tanlu was not armed that PresJ- dent Wilson wrote his famous I r.econd Lusitania note to the German I imperial government. But. In my I view, the ruthlessm-as of tho German j U-boat warfare could not justify the Washington administration in persecuting perse-cuting Senator La Toilette for telling the truth, nor could German militarism militar-ism be offered as a reason for refusing r r I 1 1 I h t A iMrii'jin ninn1p iimf ii.. i the Lusiumia had on board when she was cunk. ' I considered then and I consider now that tlv persecution of LaFollette on a charge which the administration knew to be false from evidence In Us O.wfi po.-xcRlon, was a frame-up on Senator La Follette and a fraud on the American people. ( kSE FIN m i.Y DROPPED. "When I heard that Senator LaFollette La-Follette was refused access to my report. re-port. I Informed his counsel and told his counS'. 1 to Inform the government that I would testify In support of the senator's1 statements and that I would not remain silent and see any man crucified for telling the truth. Whereupon Where-upon the trial was postponed from week to week and finally dropped If has been admitted b the German admiralty ad-miralty that the LuHltanla u a.- stru. 1; by a German torpedo. But it will never be known v bother or not there was a second explosion In the Lusl-tanla's Lusl-tanla's cargo which made her slnk-befnre slnk-befnre she could be beached. Wo do not know and rover will know actually what was ln all the boxes and eases which made up this rar" But wo. did know that there was one consignment on board the Lusitania of 4200 eafs of Springfield metallic cart-ldger.. each case containing 1010 cartridges with five pounds of black powder in each 106D cartridges. Thore-forp Thore-forp there was concentrated In one conn gnment ln the hold of the vessel a shipment of nearly eleven tons of blneV. peeler which hy the Impact of the torpedo may very well hnvo contributed to the incredible i;ipul Si king of the -reat Mner The other eons' gnmont of ammunition and phiT.pnel kro'.vn to have bron on tho Lusitania were consigned to tho British Brit-ish government but contained no explosives. ex-plosives. SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH. "President Wilson was perf.ctlj rlpht wbon he denied the charge mad by th Gf-rman government that thi LURitAnia was armed. She wsj not armed, Rut tho administration was dead wrnnc when It sought to keep from public knowledge all tho' facts I about the Lusitania ease ' Concluding his address, Mr. Malone , said. No matter what be the Individual opinions on tho Lu-.ltania, or any other question of public knowledge, we must , ' teaoh our political leaders and our government that the American peo-; peo-; Ido nro not afraid to learn the whole I truth about anything and arr willing to draw their own conclusions when rall the facts are presented The autocratic auto-cratic suppression of the truth through arrogant autocracy of the leaders of ! ,,oth Parties ls merely another reason rea-son why the poople nt this election are seeking for a new kind cf admin-istratlon, admin-istratlon, polities and government " oo |