Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-01
Both Parties Consent to
Publication Of Letters
That Passed Between Men
After Club Incident.
CANDIDATE FIRST
OFFERED APOLOGY
Editor Replied Denying Any
Feeling Of Rancor and
Wilson Letter Then Am
plifies His Apology

New York. Jan. 30.-The New York
Ey ening Post has sought, for the sake
of justice to all concerned, to secure
the publication of the correspondence
between Governor Wilson and Col
Harvey In that sense it applied to
them both Neither wished to be put
in the position of giving out private
letters but both assented to the publ
cation with the distinct understanding
that the initiative came from the
Evening Post. ""&@ t.r 49,
Wilson's Letter Of Apology.
The first letter addressed to Col,
| Harvey by Gov. Wilson is as follows:
University Club, .,s.t E...
Fifth Avenue and saith st.
/ New York, December 81, 1911.
Personal.
my Dear Colonel:-Every day am
. confirmed in the Judgment that my
mind is one-track road and can run
cltly one train Of thought at time.
! A long time after that interview with
Eou and Marse Henry at the Manhat.
tan club it came over me that when
Cat the close Of the interview you
asked me that question about the
weekly. l answered it simply as a
matter of fact and of business and
said never a word of my sincere graft.
tide to you for all your generous sup.
port, or Of my hope that it might be
continued. Forgive me and forget my
manners.
Faithfully yours.
Woodrow Wilson"
Col. Harvey's Reply. t..
In reply Col. Harvey wrote to Gov.
Wilson as follows ."
MY Dear Governor Wilson:-Re
plying to your note from the Univers
ity club, think it should go without
saying that no purely personal issue
could arise between you and me.
Whatever anybody else may surmise.
you surely must know, that in trying
to arouse and further your political
aspirations during the past few years.
l have been actuated solely by the be.
lief that ! was rendering a distinct
public service
The real point at the time of our
interview was, as you amply put 1t 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 We're experiencing diff
Guilty in finding way to counterfeit
its harmful effect, the only thing pos
sible for me to do, in simple fairness
to you, no less than in consideration
Of my own self respect, was to relieve
you of your embarrassment, so far as
|. 1t lay within my power to do so, by
ceasing to advocate your nomination.
THAT l think was fully understood
by us at the time. and acting accord.
ingly I took down your name from
the head of the Weekly's editorial
page several days before your letter
was written. That seems to be all
there is of it.
Whatever little hurt l may have
felt as a consequence of the unexpect.
ed peremptoriness of your attitude to.
ward me is, Of course. wholly elimin.
ated by your gracious words.
Very truly yours, -
+ George Harvey"
Wilson Ashamed for Hurting Friend.
Gov Wilson replied under date of
January II as follows
my dear Col. Harvey:
Generous and cordial as was your
letter written In reply to my note from
the University club 1t has left me un-
easy, because, in its perfect frankness
it shows that I did hurt you by what
I so tactlessly said at the Knicker-
booker club. am very much ashamed
of myself. for there is nothing I am
more ashamed of than hurting true
friend, however unintentional the
hurt may have been. I wanted very
much to see you in Washington. but
was ahso1ut civ ranfnred nv callers
every minute 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 surrounded and
prevented from getting at you. am
In town today to speak this evening,
and came in early in the hope of catch
ing you at your office.
For owe 1t to you and to my own
thought and feeling to tell you low