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dates, expert or otherwise. but / desire
your good opinion and wrote with that,
as well as the truth OF this matter, in
mind.
81 am with you. Senator, in wishing
a Democrat and not a pseudo-Republican
for our Presidential nominee. II was no
less from a sense OF party duty than of
Justice as between man and man that
I made the statement to which-upon a
total mIsapprehension Of the facts-you
take exceptions.
81 have been aware for nearly a week
that recognized spokesmen for Gov. Will
son were industriously circulating the
story that the real reason why Gov. VIII
son broke with Col Harvey was that
Col. Harvey had tried to bring Mr..
Thomas F. Ryan into the governors
campaign. But, until you gave credence
to the story, II could not be invested
with any responsible authority. Its
origin was mysterious. It's circulation
surreptitious. Consequently there has
been up 10 this time nothing either TO
deny or recognize.
Now, Senator, know of my own
knowledge that that story is a lie made
out of the whole cloth. IL any person
ventures TO question this assertion, I
have in my possession proof conclusive
which I hold myself ready ii place be-
fore your honest and truth-seeking mind.
Il do not accuse Gov Wilson of origi-
mating or circulating this invention. man
ufactured to make a hero OF him at the
expense OF the friend who has most ef-
fectually served him. 1 do not assume
that he is aware of the dastardly work
being done by his alleged agents, but the
fact remains that Gov. Wilson knows as
well as DO that the story is false. He
may or may not feel that he owes any
obligation to Col Harvey. That Is a
matter OF which he must be the Judge.
But I do insist that he owes II to his
own honor to repudiate that story and
to disavow those who are striving to
inject the calumny into the public mind.
Saw Ryan for Wilson.
AT Gov. Wilson'S instance. had un-
dertaken to assist his accredited man.
ayers in raising the considerable sums
OF money needful TO the prosecution Of
his campaign, and in this my efforts
were not wholly unfruitfuL AS the bust
ness proceeded, the name Of Thomas F.
Ryan not unnaturally came into my
mind. He is a Democrat. He Is a Vir-
ginian. He is my friend Knowing him
TO be a disinterested man, having no ak
TO grind. 1 hoped that I might induce
him to help out what believed a worthy
cause. Gov. Wilson'S managers were de-
lighted with the suggestion. Col. Harvey
had nothing whatever TO do with Il,
and, so far as am aware, knew nothing
whatever about IL.
Throughout this unhappy affair
have been an unwilling witness-in its
consequences, somewhat Of an innocent
misunderstanding been UP to the hour
nf Fha .E1 hi
er in Gov. Wilson. He is a man of abil-
ity. In some ways he might prove a
candidate of availability, but / fear
that II he ever became our President
we might discover all too late that he
possesses personal peculiarities which
would prove disastrous. We want in the
White House a man OF broad mind. as
well as polished intellect, of heart CRATE
ful and kind, no less than daring"
watterson's First Letter.
Col watterson's first letter to the
South Carolinian. following an interview
given out by the latter, reads in this
fashion:
My Dear Sir: Referring to the So
called Harvey -Wstterson incident 1 find
you quoted by the newspapers OF this
morning TO the following effect: I had
given Henry watterson credit for more
sense than to try to foist or a story
like this with the material facts con-
cealed.' The man who makes a public |
statement with the material facts con- |
cealed' is little other than a scoundrel |
have the right, therefore, to demand |
OF you upon what warrant of authority |
you make this serious accusation against |
me. and to ask a reply through my |
friend the Hon. Swagar Sherley, Of Ken |
lucky"
Senator TIIIman Sarcastic.
To this Senator Tillman made the fol- |
lowing rejoInder:
My Dear Sir: In your note of Janu-
ary =, handed me by the Hon. Swagar |
you call my attention to an in
terview which had given out in refer
ence to the Harvey -watterson-wIlson in !
cident IN which ] say: I had given 4
Henry Watterson credit for more sense
than to try to foist of story like this
with the material facts concealed
You demand to know Upon what war
rant OF authority you make this serious 1
accusation against me-
In your statement to the press you
described in detail the rupture between
Gov. Wilson and Col Harvey, but said
nothing as to what caused it. All the
eading papers OF the country seem to
know why Gov. Wilson severed relations
With Col. Harvey, and you, as a leading
newspaper man and self-confessed eN-
pert groomer OF Presidential candidates,
must have known 1t at the time your
statement was published. very proper
y concluded that you knew the reasons
'or the rupture, and when you made pub
ic the manner in which it occurred with
,ut giving the causes you were unques-
ionably concealing the material facts"
Then came Col watterson's attack
Ipon Gov. Wilson and his assertion that
he story currently accepted as the cause
II his break with Col. Harvey was a lie.
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