Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-30
New York Evening Post Takes
Initiative in Getting Facts
of Dispute Over Weekly In
to Print.
BOTH PARTIES CONSENT
TO METHOD PROPOSED
Governor, It Appears, Was
Put in Position Where He
Had to Eat Humble Pie
After Making Statement.

(By EveRinG nersIs =. leased wirsI
New York, Jan. 30.-The New York
Evening Post has sought. for the sake
of justice Go ali concerned. to secure
the publication OF the correspondence
between Governor Wilson and Colonel
Harvey. In that sense II applied To
them both Neither wished TO be put
in the position OF giving out private
letters. bat both assented Co the pub
licatiOB with the distinct understand
ing that the initiative came from the
Evening Post.
The first letter addressed 10 Colonel
Harvey hy Governor Wilson follows:
University club. % Dee. 1911.
Personal"
My Dear Coluncl Every day ) am
confirmed Ia the judgment that my
mind II a oue-track road and can run
only one train OF thought at a time
a long time after that interview with
you and Marse Henry as the Manhat-
tan club, Il came over me that when
Tat the close OF the interview you
asked me that question about the
Weekly. answered II simply as a
matter Of fact and OF business, and
said never word of my sincere graf
itude 90 you for All your generous sup
port, or OF my hope that II might be
continued. Forgive me and fogret my
manners.
Faithfully yours.
WOODROW WILSON"
In reply Colonel Harvey wrote to|
SIR. wilson:
My Dear Governor Wilson; Reply
Ing 20 your note from the University
Club. think It should 20 without
saying that NO purely personal issue
could arise between you ana me
Whatever anybody else may surmise
you surely inust know that, In trying
to arouse and further your political
aspirations during the past few years
have been actuatod solely by the
belief that ! was rendering distinct
public service.
THE real point al the time ~ our
interview was as YOU aptly put a. one
simply 'of fact and busines' and whom
you stated the fact to be that my
support was hurting your candidacy,
and that you were experiencing diffi-
Guilty In finding n way to countoract
its harmful effect. the only thing pos
siblc for me to do in simple fairness
to you. no less than In consideration
OF my own self-rcspoct, wag to- relieve
you of your embarrassment SO far az
II lay within my power 10 do 50, by
CeasinE 10 advocate your nomination.
THAT I think WIS fuzzy understood
between us al the time ana, acting
accordingly, ! took down your name
from the head Of the Weekly's cdi.
torial page some days before your let
ter WAS written, That seems 20 be
all that there IL OF H.
Whatever little hurt I may have
felt as a consequence of the uneN-
peCted peTemptoriness of your attl-
tudc toward me Is OF course wholly
eliminated by your gracious words.
Very truly yours.
GEORGE HARVEY
Governor Wilson replied under date
of January II as follows.
"My Dear Colonel Harvey: Gener-
Gus ana cordial as was your letter Ia
reply 10 my note from the University
club. II has left me uneasy because va
It's perfect frankness II shows that
DID hurt YOU by what I SO tactlessly
said az the Knickerhocker club. J
am very much ashamed of myself for
there o. nothing ! am more ashamed
of than hurting n true friend, how
ever unintcntlonal the hurt may have
been I wanted very much to see You
In Washington but was absolutely
captured by callers every minute J
was an my rooms, and when ! was
not there was fulfilling public en-
Ragements saw you al the dinner
hut could not get al you, and after
the dinner was surrounded and pre-
vented from getting at you am ~
town today 90 speak this evening, ana
came In early IN the hope Of catching
YOU at your office. For ] owe u 20
YOU aud GO my own thought and feel
ing 90 tell you how grateful ] ann Tor
all your generous praise and support
uf me- (Nonc has described me more
nearly as / would like 90 believe my
SELF To be than you haVe). How
have admired you FOR the independ-
ence and unhesitating courage and M
diyiduality OF your course and how
far I was from desiring that YOU
should cease your support Of me IN
the Weekly. You will think me very
stupid, hut I ana not think of that as
the resul. of my blunt answer TO your
question I thought only of the moans
of convincing people OF the real inde-
pendence of the WeeklN's position
You will remember that that was
what we DISCUSSED And now that
7 have unintentiOnally put you in a
false and embarrassing position YOU
heap Goals Of fire on my head by
continuing % give out Interviews fav-
urable 90 my candidacy All that ]
can say N that you have proved your
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