Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-18
NOT ANOTHER T|LDEN
Henry Watterson Disappoint-
ed in Woodrow Wilson.
mo SENSE OF OBLIGATION
Describes Interview When Col. Har-
vey Was Told His Support
Was Not Desired.


another Tilden. but had found rather a
schooimaster than a statesman" was the
declaration of Henry Watterson. the vet
eran Kentucky editor and southern demo-
crat. in a statement made here last night
in connection with the break between
Gov. Wilson and Col. George Harvey.
Regretting that l must appear either
as witness or a party to the misunder-
standing which has arisen between Col.
George Harvey and Gov. Woodrow VIII
son. reads the statement, Il shall have
to speak with some particularly in order
to be just alike to the public and the prin-
cipals.
The conference between us in my
apartment at the Manhattan Club was
held to consider certain practical meas
ures relating to Gov. Wilson's candidacy.
Col. Harvey stood toward Gov. Wilson
much as 1 had stood five and thirty years
ago toward Mr. Tilden. This appealed to
me.
Hoped to Find Another Tilden.
Col. Harvey had brought the governor
and myself together in his New Jersey
home eighteen months ago, and, as time
passed, had interested me in his ambi-
tions. l was hoping l might find in Gov.
Wilson another Tilden. In point of intel
lect and availability, l yet think Col.
Harvey made no mistake in his choice of
a candidate. but the circumstances leading
to the unfortunate parting of the ways be-
tween them leads me- to doubt whether in
character and temperament-t may be
merely in the habits of lifetime-Gov.
Wilson is not rather a schoolmaster than
a statesman.
Il have from Col Harvey and Gov.
Wilson statements. according to the
memory of each. touching what did ac-
tually happen and was spoken on the oc-
casion named. These do not materially
differ. They coincide with my own recol-
lection. Nothing of a discourteous kind
even of an unfriepdly kind-passed dur
ing an interview of more than an hour.
Harvey Told Support Was an Injury
From the first, however, there was a
certain constraint in Gov. Wilson'S man
ner. the absence of cordially and can
dor which should mark hearty. confiden-
tial intercourse. intimating the existence
of some adverse influence. His manner
was autocratic, if not tyrannous. 1 did
not take this to myself, but thought 1t
related to Col. Harvey, and when Col
Harvey. apparently overcome by Gov.
Wilson's austerity, put the direct ques-
port Of Harper's Weekly was doing him
an injury and received from Gov. VIII
son the cold rejoinder that 1t was l was
both surprised and shocked.
Not Deeply Sensible of Obligations.
II had myself as far back as last
October suggested to Gov. Wilson that
in view of his supposed environment it
might be well for Col. Harvey to mod
crate somewhat of the rather aggressive
character Of Harpers Weekly in the
Wilson leadership. 1 am not sure that
had not said as much to Col. Harvey
himself: but that Gov. Wilson, without
the least show of compunctiOn. should
express or yield to such an opinion and
permit Col. Harvey to consider himself
discharged from the position of trusted
intimacy he had up to this moment held
left me little room to doubt that Gov.
Wilson is not a man who makes COM
mon cause with his political associates
or is deeply sensible of his political OBJ
legations. because it is but true and fair
to say that except for Col. Harvey he
would not be in the running at all.
Col. Harvey was grievously wounded
He had been fighting Gov. Wilson's bat
tie for many years and had healized
his chief. Although l was given no rea-
son to suppose myself included in the
disfavor which had fallen upon Col. Har-
vey, 1 experienced sense of something
very much like Indignation, but on reflec-
ton l could not rid myself of the i'm
preston that Gov. Wilson had been re-
ceiving letters from Kentucky written
by enemies of mine. who seek to use his
name and fame to gain some ends of
their own. warning him against me, and
that, to all intents, sat in the same boat
with Col. Harvey.
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