The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-24

Post of June Goth, 1902, - being an in
terview with me, was partly taken
from some remarks made one night
at banquet last fall
The part of the interview that at
tributes TO me an opinion regarding
Mr.. Newlands is imaginative, pure
and simple. JAMES, WILSON,
Secretary.
| AS either declaimcr or a denial the
foregoing, when closely analysed, is q
curio.
In the first place it appears that tho
interview alleged to have been forged
by Newlands Or somebody else was
published in the Washington Post on
June 2eth. If that alleged Interview
was not substantially true, the most
natural thing for Mr.. Wilson to do was
to correct it at once through the col
umns of the same newspaper in which
it appeared. He did nothing of the
kind.
Secondly, the communication is not
addressed to anybody. 1t is dated
about week after the publication of
the alleged interview, and the denial
appears in print for the first time
away out here in an obscure Nevada
newspaper, more than two months
after it is supposed to have been writ
ten, when political campaign is on,
and when ID Is imagined that it may
bolster up the Republican cause-all of
which tinges it deeply with suspicion
In the third place the alleged COM
munication from Mr.: Wilson carefully
fails to state where the banquet re-
ferred to took place, and the Jourrp1t
will supply the omission by saying
that it was at the residence of Mr..
Newlands, and that the subject of Mr..
Wilson's remarks was irrigation, the
guests having been invited by Mr..
Newlands to consider that subject.
Next it will be observed that the
banquet took place about year ago,
long before any political campaign was
pending, and when Mr. Wilson had no
motive in speaking otherwise than as
he felt.
Again, he admits that there was an
interview" and it will be noted that
If he makes any denial at all, it is
very feeble one. To make the dis
claimer effective he should have stated
just what he did say. He merely says
that the part expressing an opinion of
Mr.. Newlands is purely imaginative"
That can be said, in a measure, of
almost any interview that appears in a
newspaper, unless the party inter-
viewed dictates and revises the Ian
guage. A general interview is always
written up by the reporter in his own
way, and he places his own interpreta-
tion upon what is said.
In this case it may be remarked that
the Washington Post is one of the lead
ing newspapers of the country, and it
is perfectly absurd to believe that such
newspaper, of Republican leanings,
and published in Washington would
deliberately misrepresent Secretary
Wilson. If there is anything wrong
in the'interview it is matter between
Mr.. Wilson and the Washington Post
"a matter which ought to have been
settled at the time 1t concerns Mr..
NaWlanda NOT of, all
The important fact is that Nevada's
Representative, has been laboring upon
the irrigation question for the last
fourteen years, and spent thousands of
dollars of his own money in the work
long before Roosevelt ever publicly
opened his lips upon the subject, and
even before he had any national stand
ing whatever. The people of Nevada
care very little about what some
eastern Republicans now say with re-
ference to Mr.. Newlands' Efforts on be-
half of irrigation. They know what
he has actually doneand they appreci-
ate it.
If the Ne,0s has any more such "evi-
dence" we hope to seeit published at
once. The Journal will gladly aid in
circulating it.-Ren0 Journal.