The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-01-26
THESE TEARS ARE
NOT WRUNG FROM
WILSON'S FRIENDS
Those Hitherto His Most
Conspicuous Opponents
are Affected by Incident.
Campaign Manager Is
sues Statement.

today, simultaneously with the ar
rival of Col. Henry Watterson, a
statement by William F. McCombs,
campaign manager for Woodrow
Wilson, declaring that the tears
that are being shed over the passing
incident are wrung from those who
have hitherto been the most con-
spicuous opponents of Governor
Wilson,"
Colonel Watterson, who will be
here several days in connection with
the work of the Perry Memorial
commission, read the McCombs
statement as well as the one made
today at Nashville, Tenn. by Judge
Ewing, but declined to comment on
either.
As to the, Wilson matter" said
the colonel, Il have nothing to add
to what has already been said, un-
less it be seriously challenged by
some responsible person. Then l
may have good deal to say"
The statement issued by MIR. Nc
Combs follows:
NuFF sED."
with reference to the alleged
Wilson Harvey incident, it seems to
me that Colonel Watterson has said
in a statement all that needs to be
said. 1t appears therefrom that az
far back as last October he himself
suggested to Governor Wilson that
Colonel Harvey's support, through
Harper's Weekly. might be injuri-
ous and that he probably told Colonel
Harvey himself the same thing. 1t
would seem that Colonel Watterson
had convinced the governor of the
truth of his opinion, and had at
least impressed Colonel Harvey with
the probability OF its truth else
Colonel Harvey would not have pro-
pounded the question. 1t is pass
ing strange that Colonel Watterson
should feel concerned that the gov
ernor. in private conversation with
himself and Colonel Harvey. should,
in answer to a pointed question, give
frank expression to the very thing
which Mr.. Watterson himself enter
tanned and which he commu unicated
to the governor and probably to
Colonel Harvey.
= In October last also, the very
month in which Ne made these sug-
gestions to Governor Wilson, Colonel
Watterson said, in the Louisville
Courier Journal, editorially:
Two things seem tolerably sure
to the surmise of the Courier-Jour-
nal: if Woodrow Wilson is nomi-
mated for president it will be through
the force of an irresistible pressure
of public opinion, and if he is de-
feated for the nomination it will be
by some organized agency well
backed with money.
No Democrat of modern times
has come into the running, Samuel
J. Tilden alone excepted, with half
at once of the equipment and the
claim of the New Jersey governor.
WHOSE TEARS ARE THESE?
The tears that are being shed
over the passing incident are wrung
from those who have hitherto been
the most conspicuous opponents of
Governor Wilson-witness the fire.
quently quoted statement of Mayor
Dahlman, of Omaha, Neb., who
has for months not only been openly
opposed to Governor Wilson, but
who has been the aggressive cham
pion of another candidate. The
same applies to others who have in
dulged in lachrymose expressions.
This, of course, is to be expected
whenever any man develops a de.
cided lead for the nomination.
THE gist of the issue, as I see it,
as whether one friend in private
conversation with another would
in answer to plain question, resort
to f1attery or dissimulatioh OF
whether ne should state the truth
as he sees it.
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, lin a
statement, came out fatty in defense
Of Governor Wilson. He declared
the entire incident was "a bubble,
not billow."
THE SOFT PEDAL.
Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 49,
Well, I'll have to put on the sof,
pedal"
This is the exclamation Of Colonel
Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly,
is declared to have made when Gov.
Woodrow Wilson, forced to reply to
Colonel Harvey's query, said. hi
feared editorial support in the: week.
ly was iniqring his (Wilson's } cause
A statement purporting to be a de.