Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-24
HENRY PATTERSON
 IN LOS ANGELES
THE GREAT KENTUCKY EDITOR
 TAKING REST.
Says He Is Not Candidate For Pres ident-No ex-Confederate Will Ever be Elected President.-Grov. CT Cleveland.

Henry Watterson editor of the Louis vile Courier-Journal, is now at Long Beach, California, for a rest MT Watterson is one of the greatest edi- tors, who has stamped his individuality on a newspaper. Everybody knows who edits the Courier-Journal and whose opinions that paper expresses. but that can be said of hardly any other American newspaper. The New York Herald, the Journal, the Ameri- can, the St. Louis papers and nearly all the metropolitan papers are edited by men who are unknown to the coun- try. Mir. Watterson on his arrival at Los Angeles was eagerly sought by newspaper reporters for an interview and the Herald finally succeeded in getting the attention of the Kentuck- ian. Following is an extract from the expressions of MT. Watterson:
 Confederate Has No Chance.
 What about your candidacy for the presidency, he was asked, and his answer was not so terse and pointed as his suggestion the day previously He said:
 "I am on record of the opinion that d uniform or who was ever identified with the Confederacy can be elected president of the United States, or will be nominated"
 The Colonel then spoke of his felici- tous relations with the north during his thirty years of eulogizing the mar tyred president, and thought he had made many friends in the north, but neither he nor any other man could hope to bridge the avalanche that would sweep over a presidential ticket containing at it's head a man once allied to the Confectionery Concerning politics of the future he said:
 Nobody can predict two years in advance of the event who will be candidate for president One might as well attempt to foretell the weather or the crops of 1904 as the personal conditions. During the last sixty years, with but two or three excep- tions, the president who was actually elected was not dreamed of two years before his nomination"
 Colonel Watterson declared the As sociated Press interview, under Min neapolis date, containing his recent references to ex-President Cleveland to be correct. H had dictated it to a stnographer and he had no fear of the quotation marks.
 'I have said all I desire to say of MT. Cleveland. In speaking of the at tempt again to bring him back into political leadership, had but two ends in view: to scotch a movement wholly dangerous in character, and to vindi- cota he -ry,fh of bicfnru have poyar had the slightest private quarrel with Mir. Cleveland. Not discourteous, un- seemly word has passed between us. I never sought to foist my friends upon him, and, making few sugges- tions, was never refused any personal request Everything that is said or printed to the contrary is wholly false. I am the last man in the world to make an individual grief the basis of a public attack. My opposition to Mir. Cleveland rests upon the specific state ments I have made. These have never been fairly met by anybody. In truth, I have sometimes been abused or sometimes misquoted, but never an swered."
 Might Take Governorship. Colonel wattersos let fall hints that .he may be disposed favorably to ac- ,cepting the candidacy for the govern lorship of Kentucky, which his friends say he can have by exclamation if he wishes. He has not been much of man to seek ofnce, however, and when he acquired the prefix Hon." to his name he did so by as little sacrance Iof his private life as possible. That was years ago, when he was offered either of two places in congress. He chose the short term, and occasionally aas regretted that he got into omciai life at all. Upon the question Of his