Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-30
SAID HE DIDN'T MEAN IT
NEW JERSEY EXECUTIVE WISHED
HARPER's WEEKLY TO BE EN-
TIRELY INDEPENDENT
BUT DESIRED ITS SUPPORT
THANKED EDITOR FOR HIS coUR.
TEsY AND coMPLlMENTED
HIM ON HIS APTNEss

New York, Jan. 3O-The New York
Evening Post has sought, for the
sake of justice to all concerned, to Sc.
cure the publication of the correspond
ence between Governor Wilson and
Colonel Harvey. In that sense it ap'
piled to them both. Neither wished
to be put in the position of giving out
private letters, but both assented to
the publication with the distinct un-
derstanding that the initiative came
from the Evening Post.
The first letter addressed to Colonel
Harvey by Governor Wilson follows:
University Club, 21, December, 1911
Personal
my Dear Colonel-Every day | am
confirmed in the judgment that my
mind is a one track road and can
run only one train of thought at a
time. A long time after that interview
with you and Marse Henry at the
Manhattan club it came over me that
when Cat the close of the interview
you asked me that question about the
weekly, i answered it simply as a
matter of fact and of business, and
said never a word of my sincere graft
tude to you for all your generous sup
port, or of my hope that it might be
continued. Forgive me and forget my
manners.
Faithfully yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
In reply Colonel Harvey wrote to
Mr.. Wilson:
"My Dear Governor Wilson:
Replying to your note from the Uni
versity club, l think it should go with
out saying that no purely personal
issue could arise between you and
me. Whatever anybody else may sur
mise, you surely must know that, In
irving to arouse and further your po
Htical aspirations during the past few
wears, have been actuated solely by
the belief that was rendering dis
tinct 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 cand1-
dacy and that you were experiencing
difficulty in finding a way to counter
act its harmful effect, the only thing
possible for me to do in simple fair
ness to you, no less than in consider
alton of my own self respect, was to
relieve you of your embarrassment, SO
far as it lay within my power to do
SO, by ceasing to advocte your nomi-
nation.
"That, think, was fully understood
between us at the time and, acting &C
cordingly, I took down your name from
the head of the Weekly's editorial page
some days before your letter was writ
ten. That seems to be all that there
is of it.
Whatever little hurt ! may have
felt as a consequence Of the unex'
pected peremptoriness of your attitude
/. toward me is of course, wholly elimin,
ated by your gracious words.
Every truly yours,
GEORGE HARVEY"
Governor Wilson under date of jan
uary II wrote as follows:
my Dear Colonel Harvey-Gener-
Gus and cordial as was your letter
written in reply to my note from the
University club, it has left me uneasy,
because, in its perfect frankness, it
shows that I did hurt you by what !
so tactlessly said at the Knickerbock-
er club. am very much ashamed of
myself, for there is nothing | am
more ashamed of than hurting a true
friend, however unintentional the hurt
may have been, wanted very much
to see you in Washington, but was
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