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Show 00 511 LOYAL, SPEAKEI SAYS I (State's Rights Must Be Respected, He Warns, However 1 MUNICH, Germany, July 8. "Bavaria is b loyal membei f the ;. mm in confederation of states and I all assertions to the contrary are dastardly: das-tardly: hut 1 warn the Berlin government govern-ment that 11 must not drive the Bavarian Ba-varian people in despair by forcing upon up-on us such measures as thi defense of the republic bill, in its present form, as It is a gross Infringement of our sovereign, right This declaration was made to International In-ternational N'c, Service this afternoon after-noon by Count Leichcnfeld pn rnn-i of Bavaria In irievi i the genera! belief that Bavaria is a hotbed of I monarchist activity against the republican re-publican government unusual importance import-ance attaches to the words of the Bavarian premier-Count premier-Count Lerchcnfeld continued: "It is a regreuablo fact that our experiences thus far in deliberations with the relchstag government (Berlin (Ber-lin federad administration) in refer-once refer-once to the defense of the republic bill have not be?n conducive of cordiality cor-diality and good faith. But we shall continue the fight against the bill in its present form with all the legitimate legiti-mate and constitutional means at our disposal. "The Bavarian people would be in despair over tho fate of the nation if the relchstag actually enacted such a measure as the defense of the- republic re-public bill Into law. And It is my own grave worry for the relchstag which oromnts me to sound this warnintr PET PRKSS HABIT. "It has become pet habit of the press reporting the Left (communists and socialists) t pc1 Bavaria as a hotbed of reaction and the center of conspiracy agii ' i the republic. This Is damnable libel. Is true, however that the conservative Te?Uts are in the majority In Bavaria. ur people are inclined to cling to tradition. 'Sad experiences vmUi the bloody das of the soviet, in Munich imbued the people with a horror of radical adventures. Yet, the world should know the whole truth- and that Is that no sensible person in Bava.ia thinks of restoring the monarchy by force The question today is not what form of government Is better The universal univer-sal reason Is that the only form of government for tin German people today to-day is a republic along domestic but inaving the underlying principles of Such form of freedom of thought and I sentiment that will stand no compul- 1 sh '11 I "It Is a grave injustice to tho German Ger-man people to suspect them of supporting sup-porting a policy of revolt against the 1 state. Moreover it is an outrageous I insult to the thousands of Bavarians who bled and died upon the battle-I battle-I fields of 1870 and in the great war. CAN" KEEP OKD1-: R 'The Bavarians have proced that they can keep 01 dor in their own home. They have left nothing undone un-done to prevent such murders as that of Dr. Rathenau, the late foreign secretary sec-retary at Berlin. I would not slav in office a slngl"- hour if conditions were different from what they are. "Long before the I-.erlin government took up posesion of the organ "C" so-called ''Consuls" in connection ; with the Rathenau assassination the Bavarian government had bden prose-curlng prose-curlng dangerous members of that or ganixatlon. "What Bavaria objects to and what she will fight for with all legitimate means at her disposal g the Berlin government a infringement of our sovereign rights There is a dangerous danger-ous tendency on the part of Berlin cabinet to centralize all executive powers pow-ers in tho hands of the Reich government gov-ernment in su- h a manner as to interfere in-terfere with the executive richts of the confederated states This must stop or I predict dark and terrible da'o for the sorely tired German nation,' |