The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-30
MAY GOD PROTECT DEMOCRACY FROM SUCH A LEADER" HENRY
 PATTERSON ON COY. WILSON
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 November and December we foregath- cred there. In short, nothing was wanting to the most cordial and un- restrained intimacy.
 T make this detailed statement be- cause the public might well fancy from the governors present attitude and tone that l had in some way thrust myself upon him and that my fsiend- ship and support had not been desired by him.
 "The fortnight inn: adiately preced- ing the interview at the Manhattan club, of which l have been at pains to say as little as was needful to jus tice between man and man and men, l had done what l could in the in- terest of his campaign. l was met on my arrival in New York by a most urgent appeal for money from gem tleman of distinction closely associ- ated with, if not actually directing the Wilson organization and in an- swer to this I was able to at once se- cure a considerable sum of money. The meeting at the Manhattan club was designed still further to push forward and perfect the work of organization.
 Else why, and for what, was the governor there?
 "To confuse and mislead the pub lie he has latterly adopted a policy of alternate silence and sneering Civ ing the lie direct to my statement that was asked to help the financial end of his campaign and declining my offer to submit the proof of it's truth to a body of gentlemen and democrats equally concerned with ourselves for the well being of the party, he thinks to l cloud the issue and escape it's menace | by turning upon me the irresponsible chatter of literary bureau which | claims to live off the immaculate con- | It,.sl. .,.fH H....r | harps and halos and which has been | for weeks flooding the country with every manner of falsihcations. The ] very existence of this, to say nothing of the sources of it's being should set honest people to thinking.
 Ryan Story False | "rhe Ryan story, which has made such an impression upon the unknow- ing and unrehecting, was, as far as It related 10 Colonel Harvey, a lie out of whole cloth. Though Governor Will | son knows this he has allowed it to | circulate without word of contradle- | ton. The attempt which followed it's exposure by me to make 1t appear that | | have intimated that application was made 10 MT. Ryan is cut off the same clotL, and is characteristic of the du- | plicity which attaches itself to the en- ire proceeding of the governor and | his publicity agents.
 | The suggestion of Mir. Ryan was | eagerly caught up by those agents Fancy a political promoter refusing money from any where or anybody. But when l spoke l to Governor Wilson about it he said some uncivil things of Mir. Ryan expressing a fear that if the knowledge of such a contribution got abroad it might do more harm than good an opinion with which Colonel Harvey l promptly concurred. The matter went no | further. l might have asked Governor | Wilson how he could reconcile his objee- | ton to Ryan money which had not yet been offered him with his demand for Carnegie pension money which had been denied him.
 l But, although growing a little impatient under his sudden change of demeanor, I did not wish to be dlsagreeable Certain it is that MT. Ryan never heard of the mat teR. Neither I or any one else spoke to him on the subject. The effort of tho | Wilson promoters to revive it and bring It to the front is simply an unprinepled al tempt to divert the public attention from l the fact that Governor Wilson has been rattlng round as a hero because of his in- | dignant rejection of Ryan. the truth being that Ryan was never pressed on him at | all.