The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-02-02
WILSON AND HARVEY.
Correspondence Between Them Puo'
Hshed by New York Paper With
Consent of Both.

Evening Post has sought, for the sake
Of Justice to all concerned, to secure
the publication Of the correspondence
between Gov. Wilson and Col. Harvey.
In that sense it applied to them both.
Neither wished to be put in the po-
sition of giving out private letters, but
both assented to the publication with
the distinct understanding that the lnl-
tiative came from the Evening Post.
The first letter, dated December Il,
addressed to Col. Harvey by Gov. Will
son, is as follows:
Natter of Fact.
my Dear Colonel: Every day am
confirmed in the judgment that my
mind is a one-track road, and can run
only one train Of thought at a time.
Along time after that interview with
you and Marse Henry at the Manhat-
tan club it came over me that when,
at the close OF the interview you ask
ed me that question about the Week
II, answered it simply as matter
OF fact and Of business, and said never
a word of my sincere gratitude to you
for all your generous support, or of
my hope that it might be continued.
Forgive me and forget nv manners.
:; Faithfully yours,
woodrow Wilson
In reply Col. Harvey wrote to Gov.
Wilson as follows:
= No Personal Issue.
tsMy Dear Governor Wilson: Reply
ing to your note, think it should go
without saying that 40 purely person
al issue could arise between you and
me. Whatever anybody else may sur
mise, you surely must know thai,
in trying to arouse and further YOUR
political aspirations during the past
few years, I have been actuated sole
ly by the belief that I was rendering
a distinct public service.
"The real point at the time of our
interview was, as you aptly put it.,
one simply of fact and of business
and when you stated the fact to be
that my support was hurting your
candidacy and that You were expert
encing difficulty in finding way to
counteract its harmful effect, the only
thing possible for me to do, in simple
fairness to you no less than in con-
sideration of my own self-respect, was
to relieve you of your embarrassment
so far as it lay within my power to do
so, by ceasing to advocate your nomi-
nation.
Nothing More.
|'That, I think, was fully understood
between us at the time, and acting
accordingly I took down your name
from the head of the Weekly's editor
ial page some days before your letter
was written. That seems to be all
there is of it.
"Whateyer little hurt I may have
felt as a consequence of the unexpect-
ed peremptoriousness of your attitude
toward me is of course wholly eli
minated by your gracious words.
VERY truly yours,
George Harvey"
Gov Wilson replied under date of
January II as follows:
Hurt Was UninteRti0naL
my Dear Col. Harvey: Generous
and cordial as was your letter written
in reply to my note, it has left me
uneasy, becaIse, in it's perfect frank
ness, it shows that I did hurt you by
what I so tactlessly said. I am very
much ashamed Of myself, for there is
nothing I am more ashamed of than
hurting true friend, however unin-
territorial the hurt may have been. I
wanted very much to see you in Wash
ington, but was absolutely captured
by callers every minute l was in my
rooms, and when I was not there was
fulfilling public engagements. I saw
you at the dinner, but could not get at
you, and after the dinner was sur
rounded and prevented from getting
at you. I am in town today, to speak
this evening, and came in early in the
hope of catching you at your Office.
Grateful for Support.