The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
IN JUSTICE TO ALL
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tCOnunuS0 from rage Ii
think it should go without saying
that no purely personal issue could
arise between you and me. Whatever
anybody else may surmise, you surely
must know that, in trying TO arouse
and further your political aspirations
during the past few years, I have been
actuated solely by the belief that
was rendering a distinct public service.
The real point of the time of oul
interview was as you APPLY put it, one
simply of fact and of business, and
when yOl stated the fact to be that
my support was hurting your candidacy
and that you were experiencing diff
Guilty in finding way to counteracL
its harmful effect, the only thing pos
sible for me to do, in simple fairness
to you, no less than in consideration
of my own Self-reSpect, was to relieve
you of your embarrassment, so TAR as
it lay within my power to do SO, oy
ceaSing to advocate your nomination.
THAT [ think was fully understood
between us at the time and acting &C
cordingly took down your name from
the head of the Weekly editorial page
some days before your letter was writ
ten. That seems to be all there is OF
il.
Whatever little hurt I may have
felt as consequence of the unexpect-
ed peremptOriness of your attitude to-
ward me, of course is wholly ellmln-
ated by your gracious words.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE 6ARN Ely.
Wilson Writes Again.
Gov 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 LETT
me uneasy, because in its peTIecL
frankness, it shows that l did huft
you by what so tactlessly said at the
KnickerbOcker club. am very mucn /
ashamed of myself, for there is moth
ing l am more ashamed of than hurt- |
ing a true friend, however, uninten- |
tional the hurt may have been.
wanted very much to see you in WASH |
ingtOn, but was absolutely captured I
BY callers every minute l was in my I
rooms, and when was not there, was
fulfilling public engageme 1 saw
you at the dinner, but could not get at
you, and after the dinner was sur
rounded and prevented rom gettlnS |
at you. I am in town today to spt
this evening and came in early IN the
hope of catching you at your offlce-
For I owe to you and to my own
thought and feeling to tell you now
grateful 1 am for all your generous
praise and support of me- ono one
has described me more nearly as
would like to believe myself, to the
public, than YOU'D. How I have ad-
mired you for the independence ana
undisputed courage and individuality
Of your course and how far was from
desiring that you should 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 my
blunt answer to your question /
thought only of the means of con-
vincing people of the real independ-
ence of the Weekly's position You
will remember that that was what we
discussed. And now that I have I'M
put you in false ana
embarrassing position, you heap Goals
of fire on my head by continuing to
give out interviews favorable to my
candidacy All that I can say is that
you have proved yourself very big and
that I wish I might have an early op-
portunity to TELL you face to face
how really feel about it.
with warm regard, cordially and
yours,
Harvey's Last.
It is noted in the foregoing that men
ton of the Knickerbocker instead of
the Manhattan club is obviously a slip
Of the pen
Col. Harvey's reply was as follows:
January Is, 1912.
MY Dear Governor Wilson: Thank
you sincerely for your most handsome
letter can only repeat what I said
0efore-that there is no particle of per-
sonal rancOr or resentment left in me.
And I beg you to believe that I have
not said one word to anybody of critf-
,ism of you
II have to print a word or explana-
lion to the Weekly's readers but it will
De the briefest possible.
Very truly yours,