The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-13
WATTERSON ON HILL.
Democratic Editor Inundated
by Governors Denial.
LETTER GENUINE AND JUST.
New York Standardized Made q Bad
Mistake When He Disclaimed
the Good Advice.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 12.-On returning
to the city this afternoon, Dir. Henry
Watterson, IN response to a request of the
Associated Press, and in answer to humid
reds OF kilograms which have come TO
Louisville, made statement for publica-
ton regarding the letter written to Cover
nor Hill, and given In these dispatches
two days ago.
Mr.. Watterson says he did write the let
ter to Governor Hill, and was iinpelled TO
do so by motives the sincerest and most
disinterested. He says there appeared
In many papers last Sunday, SEN
sationai account of how caucus
OF United States senators had
resolved upon retiring Governor Hill
from the presidential arena; of how Wat
terson had been selected as the instru-
ment, and how he had dispatched letter
potent enough to alter Hills plans. This
was SO absurd and did such injustice to
both Hill and himself, that he thought
there could be no objection on the part of
anybody to the publication of the truth,
which fatty contradicted it,
81 confess am surprised" adds Mr. Waiter
son, that the governor should make such haste
to disayow and disown such course, which,
however prompted, gratified every Democrat in
the United States, outside of the state of New
York, removing him from the field of mere POI
htical self-seeker, and placing him in the front
rank of statesmen having the good OF their coun
try and party at heart. lam equally distressed
by the representation that Governor Hill
should regard my plain, but friendly
words. as impertinent and insulting. cannot
help thinking the same words might, with pro-
priety, be addressed to Hill or to any Democratic
aspirant by the humblest Democrat in the land,
and still hope that. annoyed by the publica-
uon, which annoyed me as well, he has pro-
ceeded upon misrepresentation of the facts of
the case. Neither in the writing or printing of
advantage of him, and least of all
to do him injustice. | am no mans
man, and exist in no mans interest. To use his
own happy expression, Il am Democrat who
has passed lifetime in the service of the prin-
ciples and policies, from which l never sought
the slightest personal recognition or regard
am only Inundated by the reflection that this
service was not sufficient in the estimation of
Governor Hill to protect me against his dis
pleasure, and that in the harsh construction
which he puts upon the genuine and not forged
letter, he visits me with what must regard as
unmerited suspicion
New York, Feb. exp President Cleve-
land, in an interview with Herald repor-
ter, refused to say anything in regard TO
the letter purporting to have been written
by Watterson to Hill. In regard to the
meeting between Hill and himself, Cleve-
land said:
Governor Hill, and / are on the best of terms
and always have been. We had no private con-
yersation the evening of the dinner. 1 did re-
mark, however, that notwithstanding the recent
Democratic cyclone in the country, the Demo-
cratic party would have to do good deal to beat
the Republican party.