Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-14
GEN. HAnMoND,s 1NrERvIEN.
He Thinks the Words Don't Look Natural
In Cold Print.


In Cold Print.
WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. s, 1882.
Editor and Publisher Sunday GLOBE, st. Paul,
Mimi:
DEAR SIR: In your paper OF Sunday, Au-
gust 9th, am quoted as saying that Canada
will never have any life until the L. s. own
and Americans run it."
Such statement is entirely untrue. / have
never said one word OF that sentence, or any,
thing that could be so construed.
Other portions of the article are also greatly
mixed, but / do not consider it of sufficient
Importance 70 refer to any, except the last SEN
tence. Yours very truly,
J. H. HAMMOND.
That the GLOBE may do Gen. Hammond no
injustice we also give place to the following
from the Winnipeg Times of the Sth:
To the Editor of the Times:
DEAR SIR: Your attack on me in the Times
of this evening is unmerited. When the arti-
Gle in the st. Paul GLOBE was shown to me
this morning, wrote the editor that / con.
sidered no part OF any importance save the
last sentence as to Canada being run by Amer
leans, each and every part OF which denied.
Ia order to cover the whole ground, / now
state that the expression about the people OF
Winnipeg not being to blame for the
speculation of last winter" is the only
one recognize as having used, and that in
conversation only, not in an interview. /
have never said that any one going 10 Winni-
peg would ''see Canada as it is, and have to
pinch himself TO see if he is awake" / never
said Canada twas a sleepy place." never men,
toned "cutthroat euchre or keno games" in
any way; never said one word about the Unit
ed States owning Canada, or about it being
run by Americans either directly or other
q l.. Il.
diiuvian" IN association with Canada, Winni-
peg or the Northwest; and, finally, if any re-
porter interviewed me in st. Paul l do not
know it. Yours, etc,
J. II. HAMMOND.
WINNIPEG, Aug. s, 1882.
The attack of which General Hammond
complains was made in the belief that be had
slandered the people OF Winnipeg. AS he
says the alleged interview never took place,
the Times is bound to believe hun. Perhaps
the st. Paul GLOBE will be good enough to
note the sweeping contradiction Of Gen. Ham.
mond, and let him and us know how it came
to manufacture an interview with him.
On the 18th the Times also contained the fol.
lowing:
Gen. Hammond wrote to the Times the
other day complaining of a paragraph based
on the report of an alleged interview with
him in the st. Paul GLOBE. The general
declared, first, that he remembered using one
phrase credited to him, and, secondly, that he
had no recollection of being interviewed at all.
There was patent discrepancy between these
statements, but the Times accepted his denial
of the truthfulness OF the report. But the
matter, although by no means an important
one, except TO Gen. Hammond, is not yet SET
tied. To-day telegram was received from
Mr.. II. P. Hall, the editor and proprietor OF
the GLOBE, to this effect: "My reporter saw
Gen. Hammond in person, and says he report
ed him absolutely correctly" Clearly either
Gen. Hammond or the GLOBE reporter is
strangely at fault; but considering the dis.
crepancy in the generals testimony the
weight OF evidence is in favor of the report.
er's story.
COMMENTS OF THE GLOBE.
The GLOBE agrees with the Times in not
attaching great Importance to the matter
but as it seems to have nevertheless created
considerable interest we give Gen. Hammond
hearing. AS. Gen. Hammond comedies tina,
the interview took place, in the
same breath in which he disclaims it, it il
scarcely necessary to say that the interview
was genuine and that it occurred in the room
adjoining the office of the general manager
of the Northern Pacific in st. Paul. At thu
end of the report of the interview the reporter
added, as his own conclusion from Gen. Ham
mond s remarks, that Canada was sleepy, ANTE
diluvian place and needed to be owned anG
run by Americans to amount to anything
He did not intend to be understood as attrb
uting that remark to Gen. Hammond, but
gave it as his (the reporter's) own inference
land fair one) from the remarks he had Just
heard. 1t will be noticed that in the note tc
the GLOBE Gen. Hammond does not deny the
remainder of the interview, but favors thu
Winnipeg Times with little specific matter
which be does not touch on in this latitude
The GLOBE reporter, however, reaffirms thai
he correctly represented Gen. Hammond's re
marks, and that he might have added more il
he had cared to prolong the report of the in
terview.
We fear Gen. Hammond has an off-hanG
way of talking which he does not closely re-
call without the aid OF short hand writer.