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DID HEWETT FURNISH IT ?
SPECULATLONS CONCERNING MR.. VAT
SONS MEMORANDA.

| MIR. Kelsey,s Surprising Denial That He
Gave I'll Out for Publication, Lead
ing to Some Pregnant Inquiries
TRENTON, July 10-Secretary of State
Kelsey's surprising denial that he had 9
hand in the publication of the Watson
memoranda, purporting to give the details
of remarkable interview between Sena-
tors Mcpherson and Sewell, has piqued
curiosity as to the man who supplied it fol
publication and why he supplied it. Wat
son, the ex-President of the Erie Railroad,
who is said to have made the memoranda,
was on intimate terms with Abram S. Hew-
lit, of New York. During Watson's presi-
dency Hewitt got some rich and fat
takes" from the Erie; and this explains
why, when Mr.. Watson overheard the re-
ported conversation, he went right to
Hewitt to make it known. Mr.. Hewitt is a
bitter opponent of Mr.. McPhe rson. They
have never sshitcheJ" since Mr.. McPher-
son got into the National Senate; and when
Watson came to him with his damaging
story, Hewitt babe him make careful
memoranda of what he had heard. Has
that Ememoranda Rbeen since that
time in Mr.. Hewitt's posses sion And was
it he who sent it to the True american for
publications. Some Passaic County men
whom I have met, profess to believe that
Mr.. Hewitt is the man who is directly re-
sponsible for the publication. He lives in
Passaic County nine months of the year,
and, convinced that it costs more money
than he cares to spend, and needs more in
fuence than he can exert or control to
achieve an election to the United States
Senate from New York, he is said to have
fixed his yearning eye upon one of the
two Senatorial seats from this State. In
the contingency CT his declding to enter
the lists here for Senatorial honors,
Mr.. Kelsey, it is said, will back
him for all he is worth; and
Mr.. Kelsey will do this not more because
of the friendly relations existing between
himself and Mr.. Hewitt than because of
the intimacy between the late Senator Ran
dolph-who was during his lifetime Mr..
Kelsey's patron-and the Hon. Abram S.
The cIoseness of Mr.. Hewitt's relations
with Mr.. Randolph makes it more likely
that, when Watson had prepared the
memorandum, Hewitt gave it to Mr.. Ran
dolph as the person who was most deeply
interested in the plot it revealed, than that
he kept it himself. Mr., Randolph never
used 1t, probably for the reason that he
foresaw that it could only eventuate in
wordy "you lie" war that could never be
settled, but he kept it to show around
among his friends, and when he died left
it among his effects. The late Mr.. Ran
dolph left a son who is, not as wise as his
father was, and this young man probably
hooked on TO the document, and started
the biggest, local political sensation Of late
years by placing it at the disposal of Secre-
tary Kelsey. If the document reached the
public through that channel, it rather dis
poses of the theory that Hewitt gave it out
to further his own individual Senatorial
aspirations. Hewitt may not himself have
any very large idea of achieving an cleo
ton to the United States Senate from this
State, but if he has furnished Mr.. kelsey
indirectly though it be-with weapon to
lay Mcpherson out and to overthrow Gen.
Sewell, and to put Mr.. Kelsey on top again,
the least Mr.. Kelsey could do in gratitude
if the weapon can be successfully used
would be to give Mr.. Hewitt what political
aid he can