The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-06
HOW WAtE ESSfRtEFPt0ff
AGAINST WOODROW WILSON
is PASSED DOWN .IHEL|NE
Former Senator Pettigrew Ap-
pears in Scheme to Discredit
New Jersey Governor
]. j. HILLS LIEUTENANT
Offers Framed Up" Story To
Times Representative, Who
Promptly Rejects 1t
J. j. HILLS LIEUTENANT
By gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., eb. 6.-I
want TO offer some personal testimony
on the subject OF this Wallst. con-
splracy against Woodrow Wilson.
On Saturday, Jan. 27. former SEN
Gtur Pettigrew, OF North Dakota, en-
tered my efilee and offered me a
story" on Woodrow Wilson. ! was In
teresied and said | would like to look
IL over The ex-senator produced a
manuscript.
II proved to be long, typewriter
document in the form OF letter ad-
dressed TO Senator Pettigrew by
George Fred Williams. OF Massachu-
sets. The writer had gone through
Woodrow Wilson's History OF the
United States" with a fine-tooth comb
for any sentences, paragraphs or
sentiments which might be the sub
iect OF political offense to any person
or class OF persons.
What Wilson said about Grover
Cleveland; what he said abovt send
ing troops to Chicago; his illusions
to organized labor and to the railway
strike OF 1894; immigration and un-
desirable classes of immigrants
everything which by any possibility
might be twisted or perverted to
arouse a prejudice or invoke criticism.
The name OF Senator Pettigrew, to
whom tho letter bad originally been
addressed. was removed by clipping
the tor from the first sheet.
I'VE want TO get publicity for this,
said Mr.. Pettigrew; I'VE want TO
publish 1t as widely as possible. We
will give Il to the Hearst newspapers
and we would like TO have 1t used II
possible by the press associations"
On the following day | noticed that
Hcarst's paper used the extract which
referred TO Italian immigration.
Hearst had interviewed prominent
Italians. who were outraged" by
Gov. Wilson's attack on Italian
American citizens.
The next day, Hearst used some
thing which might be offensive TO an
other race OF immigrants, and he had
interviewed some more outraged
citizens
The third day lie devoted to repro
ducing what Gov Wilson said about
the Chinese, and discovered that the
people on the coast and elsewhere
were Outraged" by the governors
description OF the Chinese as Indus
trious and decent"
And so II has gone on. Hearst evi
IDENTIFY accepted the Wall-st. dynamite
and has been touching it of, a stick
ut time, in his papers.
The connection CT Wall-st. with the
dynamite in this instance is 10 be
found IN the fact that Pettigrew, after
he left the United States senate, be
came the lieutenant of James j. Hill,
the railroad magnate in Wall-st
Pettigrew has not been active--at
least not in the opeD--in politics since
he gave up his residence in the west
and formed his Wall-st. connections
This entry of Pettigrew into politics
is much the same as the entry OF
Thomas Fortune Ryan, who. with
Marse Henry Watterson, evidently
undertook 70 secure mortgage on
the expected Wilson administration.
You may be sure that 1t is worth
while TO search the ruins after each
Of these dynamite explosions and see
II there are not some remnants OF
Wall ST clo0kwork where the ex-
plosive was planted.