White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-11
WATTERSON
SPEAKS OUT
TELLS OF TROUBLE BETWEEN
HIMSELF AND GOVERNOR
WILSON ON THE EVE OF
DEPARTURES TO FLORIDA.

Woodrow Wilson was solely as to
which one had lied"
Col. Watterson said he had
engaged conclusively to show" that
Gov. Wilson had lied, and charged
that the New Jersey executive
dared not face the facts"
Col. Watterson declined to make
public any proof in his possession.
He denied that Thomas F. Ryan had
ever been approached for campaign
contributions for Gov. Wilson, but
stated that the matter had been
talked over with Gov. Wilson and
the latter had expressed the fear
that If the knowledge of a contri-
button from Mr.. Ryan got abroad
it might do more harm than good.
Col. Watterson's statement, ad-
dressed to the Democrats of the
United States" follows:
The time limit set upon my stay
in the national capital being about
to expire, and Gov. Wilson having
refused my offer as 10 the issue of
v~eracity he has raised between US to
submit proof of the truth of my
ayerment to party associates COM
petent to judge both the character
and the expediency of its publication,
| shall bring this most distasteful
episode to a close as far as | am
concerned.
THE claim that | must rush nito
print with this proof emanates
either from the peryerse or the mali
gnant. | have it already under
proper supervision To produce, and
can be asked in reason to do no
more. If / should publish it the
very men who are demanding that |
shall would be first to accuse me of
reckless disregard of what they
would call party prudence and
rights. The sole issue is whether |
have lied. which | have engaged
conclusively to show. He dare not
face the facts.
with as brief a review as may
be of the circumstances to which l
owe the misfortune of having made
Gov. Wilson's acquaintance. not to
mention my Endorsement of his
plausible but speeious pretensions,
/ shall cas- TO trouble the public
with a CONTROVERSY nowise of my
seeking.
During the early summer of
1910 | a passing a week end with
Col. George Harvey, an old friend,
at Deal Beach, his home in New
Jersey. There arrived for dinner
DIR. Woodrow Wilson. then presi-
dent of Princeton. and Hon. James
Smith. Jr.. late a senator in congress-.
DR.. Wilson / had never met before.
THE talk at the table was mainly
about the prospective nomination of
a Democratic candidate for governor
of New Jersey. Drawn into the con-
versation, | ventured the opinion that
IL nothing more than a goyernorship
was in sight IL would be a sacrifice
for DIR. Wilson to quit his exalted
station at the head of a great uni
versity and get down into the bull
ring of politics to struggle for pre-
ferment so ephemeral and uncertain.
That vas probably what Col.
Harvey. who seemed under some
spell wrought by DR.. Wilson, had
planned. Mr.. Smith declared that he
wanted nothing for himself; only to
see the state redeemed; that no one
but DIR. Wilson could redeem it and
the like.
In due season DR.. Wilson was
nominated and elected. Not long
after | was called to New York. The
situation in New Jersey was explain
ed to me. ! was told that Mr.. Smith
wished to return to the senate, des-
pite his declaration that he wanted
nothing for himself; that there had
been a primary election. which had
gone by default, in which a person
of the name of MARITIME, represented
as wholly unfit, had obtained a rath-
er meager vote; that Gov. Wilson
held Senator Smith to his bond and
stood by the party pledge touching
primary elections. In this he was
clearly right.
THE presidential campaign to
which the g~ubernatorial election had
served as a prelude began. In a
manner | had been dragooned. ]
will not say decoyed, into the service