Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-01-30
VII. .SON-HARVEy
LETTERS PUBLIC
New York Evening Post Pub.
lished the Entire CORES.
pondence
YOU FIRST my DEAR GASTON
Shoolmaster Statesman and Dis.
tinguished Editor Just Love
Each Other

Nc" lOlh, " L, Jan, OU.-l ne
New York Evening Post has sought.
for the sake Of justice to all con-
cerned, 10 secure the publication of
the correspondence between Governor
! Wilson and Colonel Harvey. In that
sense it applied 10 them both. Meth
er wished to be put in the position of
giving out private letters, but both
assented to the publication with the
distinct understanding that the ini-
tiative came from the Evening Post.
The first letter addressed to Colonel
Harvey by Governor Wilson follows:
university Club, December q,
i1911
personal"
My Dear Colonel:
Every day | am confirmed in the
/ Judgment that my mind is a one track
read and can run only one train OF
thought at time. A long time after
that interview with you and Marse
Henry at the Manhattan Club it came
over me that when (at the close of
the interview you asked me that
question about the Weekly, I an
sWered it simply as a matter of fact
and of business, and said never 4
word of my sincere gratitude to you
for all your generous support, or of
my hope that it might be continued.
| Forgive me and forge manners.
"Fraternally yours,
"WOODROW WILSON"
In reply, Colonel Harvey wrote to
| Mr. Wilson:
MY Dear Governor Wilson:
Replying to your note from the
! University Club, | think it should go
without saying that no purely per-
sonal issue could arise between you
and me. Whatever anybody else may
lsurmise, you surely must know that,
! in trying TO arouse and further your
political aspirations during the past
few years, I have been actuated So
| lely by the belief that | was render
ing distinct public service.
! ''The real point at the time of our
| interview was, as you aptly put it.
one simply "of fact and business"
and when you stated the fact to be
that my support was hurting your
candidacy and that you were expe-
riencing difficulty in finding a way to
counteract its harmful effect, the on
+; " thing possible for me TO do, in
simple fairness to you, no less than
lin consideration of my own self res
pect, was to relieve you Of your en-
| b&rrassment, so far as it lay within
my power to do so, by ceasing to adj
vocate your nomination.
THAT | think, was fully understood
between us at the time. and. acting
accordingly, / took down your name
from the head of the Weekly's edito-
rial page some days before your let
ter was written. That seems to be
all that there is of it.
whatever little hurt I may have
ifelt as a consequence of the unexpect-
ed peremptorineSs of your gratitude
toward me is, of course, wholly eli
minated by your gracious words.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE HARVEY"
Governor Wilson replied under
date OF January II, as follows:
MY Dear Colonel Harvey.
Generous and cordial as was your
letter written in reply to my note from
the University Club, it has left me un-
easy, because, in its perfect frank
ness. it shows that | DID hurt you
by what | so tactlessly said at the
Knickerbocker Club. | am very
much ashamed of myself, for there is
nothing | am more ashamed of than
hurting a true friend, however unin-
tentional the hurt may have been.
wanted very much to see !ou in
Washington, but was absolutely can
tured by callers every minute was
in my rooms and when | was not
there. was fulfilling public engage
nents. | saw you at the dinner, but
could not get at you, and after the
dinner, was surrounded and prevent
ed from getting at you. | am in town
today, to speak this evening, and
came in early in the hope of catching
you at your office.
For | owe ii to you and to my own
thought and feeling to tell you how
grateful | am for all your generous
praise and support of me (no one has
described me so nearly as | would
like to be than you have,) how |
have admired you for the independ-
lence and unhesitating courage and in
dividuality of your course and how
far was from desiring that you cease
your support of me in the Weekly.
You will think me very stupid but I
did not think of that as the result of
Imy blunt answer to your question. I
thought only of the means of convey
ing people of the real independence
OF the Weekly's position. You will
remember that that was what we
DISCUSSED. And now that | have
unintentionally put you in false and
embarrassing position, you heap Goals
OF fire on my head by continuing to
give out interviews favorable to my
candidacy All that l can say is that
you have proved yourself very big and
: that | wish | might have an early op-
portunity to TELL you face to face
: |