Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-03
PIN CT ( e DENIES S IT.
Never Made the Statements
Attributed to Him.
Upholds Administration and Is Not a
Candidate for Presidency.
Open Letter TO Sec. Alger. Denying Absolutely
the Alleged Interview.


tary Alger, brought out by criticisms
Of the secretary and the numerous
comments recently published concern
is the agreement made by the govern
or to support Alger in his campaign for
the United States senatorship. The
letter is as follows:
My Dear General:
Il subscribe to a clipping bureau and
| have, within the past few days, been
receiving large number of clippings
from newspapers published in every
part Of the country, containing what
purports to be an interview with me in
which criticisms of the present admin
istration are put in my mouth. | am
lstonished at the circulation and Gre
dence which this alleged interview has
received. | would not take cognizance
of il were ii not for the fact that il
seems to have been so widely circulated
and also for the reason that there are
many people who are YET to learn that
what is termed political news ana opin-
ion are as unreliable. inaccurate and
prcjudiced as the newspaper mans in
genuity and cunning can make them.
lit did not seem To me necessary 70
deny the interview. l would not now
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