Evening journal., 1901-10-24

1ofSA uOl hluliu lS tOmlHB lnlO Jle
white light of publicity these days with
a vengeance, and each twenty-four
hours brings up some new feature OF
the political drama OF which Mr.. HUM
is star actor.
His visit to the President was follow
ed by newspaper reports and surmises,
and this was displaced by thunder
clap in the form of an interview which
appeared in the columns Of a contem-
porary.
Evidently his Excellency was mad
through and through at the reports
published in the various papers pur-
porting to give his interview with the
President. but his wrath was specially
kindled against Major Carson, who is
one of the most accurate and able
newspaper men of the country. Conse-
quently the Governor sends a letter to
the Philadelphia Ledger, Of which
Major Carson is the Washington CORE
spondent. The letter. with two para
graphs, excepted, is as follows:
State Of Delaware Executive Depart
ment. Dover. Del. October % 1901
The Editor. Philadelphia Public Led
ger Philadelphia, Pa.-Dear Sir. In
your issue of October II you published
as a Washington special, signed by
Major John NJ. Carson. the alleged con-
vefsation which took place on that day
in Washington during an interview be-
tween President Roosevelt and myself.
In the statement as published / am so
grossly and falsely misquoted through
out the entire article that we consider
it proper for us to call your attention to
the matter as published. We did not
give out any report Of this interview,
and we are confident President Rc0se-
velt did not. and during the progress of
said interview there were but two of us
in the room. We are confident, there
fore. because Of the absolute incorrect
ness. that the reported conversation
was created by some one who willfully
and maliciously built a fabric of false
hoods and Misrepresentation to carry
out some purpose unknown to us, doing
us thereby a serious injury,
We intend to take the matter up with
the President at an early date, for the
reason that he is. in a full measure,
justified by your publishing of the re-
port to believe that have broken faith
with him. and in addition to that have
reported untruthfully what took place
at very pleasant and cordial inter
view with him on that date Yours
very truly John HUM,
Governor.
Major Carson in discussing the mat
ter declares that the interview was re-
ported correctly in all of it's essentials.
and makes a good showing Of evidence;
indeed he partly proves his contention
from the Governors own statements.
Major Carson says:
The Governor declares with the evil
dent purpose of adding plausibility and
Strength to his denial, that he talked
with certain newspaper men, "but not
with the correspondent of the Ledger"
That is the fact and it is proper to say
here that the information printed in
the Ledger dispatches was not received
from the President. But might not
Governor HUM have talked with
others than newspaper men about the
visit to the White House and related
substantially what was said on both
sides? The information came to the
correspondent Of the Ledger from q
gentleman with whom the Governor
did talk, and the relations of the two
men are known to be such that the cor
respondent had no reason to doubt its
accuracy.
Regarding the remarkable statement
made to the Every Evening, to the ef-
feet that President Mckinley offered
the Governor the distribution of the
Federal patronage in Delaware, Major
Carson has this to say:
1t would be interesting to know when
and under what circumstances Presi-
dent Mckinley offered Governor HUM
the privilege of acting as the dis
penser Of Federal patronage in Della
ware"
1t is well known to a number of per-
sons. including representatives Of both
the Addicks and DUPONT factions. that
President Mckinley, up to within a
short time of his death. positively and
persistently declined to yield to the inn
portunities by which he was almost
constantly assailed. to take any action
in regard to the Federal offices in Della
ware.
.
The very fact that President McKin-
ley failed to make appointments for
Delaware. and that he could not be pre-
vailed upon to name a collector Of Gus
toms for Wilmington (the tenure Of the
Democratic incumbent having expired
more than one year ago), is not recon-
eilable with the statement that he