Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-24

ticles. As he outlined it, was to go secretly to New York, submit myself to several employed alienists who should pronounce me insane, where upon I was to write several articles in which I should admit having ar rived at the conclusion that l reached the Pole while mentally unbalanced. The admission was to be supported by the alienists' purchased report This plan, I was told. would put me right and make a great sensational storyl
 When I was told of this I felt staggered. Did people-could they deem me such hoax that, in order to obtain an unwaTranted sympathy, or to make money, I should be willing to admit sucn a shameful, mad, atro- cious and despicable lie? l said nothing when the suggestion was made. At heart, 1 felt achingly hurt l felt that this newspaper man, not hesitating at deceiying the public in order to get a sensation, regarded me as a scoundrel I was learning, too, as l had throughout the heart-bitter controversy, the duplicity Of human nature.
 After a talk with MT. Hampton, who finally arrived and who, l am glad to say, had no such suggestion himself to offer, l got to work on my articles after the definite plan spoken of with MT. Harry in London. These were written at the Palatine Hotel, in Newburgh. The articles finished, returned to London to settle certain business matters prior to my public return to America by Christmas
 Imagine my amazed indignation when, shortly before sailing, the ca bles brought the untrue news, Dr. Cook Confesses. Imagine my heart aching dismay when, on reaching the shores of my native country, found the magazine which was running my articles in which 1 hoped to explain myself, had blazoned the sensation provoking lie over its coyer.-Dr. Cook Confession
 q had made no confession. l had made the admission that l was un- certain as to having reached the ex- act mathematical Pole. That same ad- mission of uncertainty as to the ex- act point attainment of the Pole as a confession To the public. had apparently authorized this. The mis- representation hurt me, and for a time placed me in an unhappy di' lemma.
 Before the appearance of the Jan uary Hampton's, in which the first in stallment of my articles appeared, SC l ries of press stories, supposedly based on my forthcoming articles, were pre- pared and sent out by the sub-editor who had suggested the insanity plan. These were prepared during the ab. sence of Mir Harry in Atlantic City, | By picking garbled extracts from my ! articles about the impossibility of a | pin-point determination of the Pole, and the crazy mirage-e1ects of the Arctic world, these news stories were l construed to the effect that I ad mitted I did not know whether I had been at the North Pole, and also that I admitted to a plea of insanity These stories were printed on the first | pages of hundreds of newspapers all ] over the country. under scare-heads | of Dr. Cook Admits Fake' and Dr. | Cook Makes Plea of Insanity.'
 Tn these reports, written by the sub-editor, he gave himself credit for 1 the discovery of Dr. Cook, and the securing of his articles for Hampton's | This claim for the magazine beat was as dishonest as his handling of the press matter for Hampton's. My | dealings with the magazine were en' tirely through MT. Harry, whose frank. ness and fair-dealing, early disposed ! me to give my story to the publica. | ton he represented.
 The widespread dissemination of the untrue and cruelty unfair comics sion and insanity plea stories dazed me. l felt impotent, crushed. In my very effort to explain myself I was | being irretievably hurt. l was being made a cats-paw for magazine sensa' | ton.
 | But misrepresentation do not | make history. The American people cannot always be hoodwinked. The | reading public soon realized that my story was no more a confession than the 'Peary Proof Positive installment in Hampton's had been the embodi ment of any real Polar proofs" l Although Dr. Cooks representatives are frank in saying that pr. Cook s ! book contains the most sensational material of the entire Polar contro i versy, great secrecy is maintained concerning the nature of this. The charges made against Dr. Cook. they say are not SO startling ss the reyela
 tions of fraudulent methods employed in the campaign to discredit him. Dr | Cooks book, it is said. cannot but create a tremendous sensation.