Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-01-30
WATeRSoN ExPLoDEs.
Continued from Page one.)

| opinion if nothing more than gov
| ernorship was in sight, il would be a
sacrifice for DIR. Wilson to Quit his
| position at the head of a university
and get down into the buH ring of
| politics To struggle for preferment so
| ephemeral and uncertain
That was probably what Col Har-
| Vey, 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 DR.
| Wilson could redeem it. and the like.
| I'm due season, DIR. Wilson was nom
| mated and elected.
/ Not long after, | was called to New
| York. The situation in New Jersey was
| explained to me. [ was told that Mr..
smith wished to return to the Sem
| ate, despite his declaration that he
! wanted nothing for himself, that there
| had been Il primary election. which
| had gone by default, in which Il per
son OF the name Of MARITIME represent
| ed as wholly unfit, had obtained
| rather meagre 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.
| 'Ihe Presidential campaign To
| which the gubernatorial election had
served as prelude began In man
| ner | had been dragooned-I will not
| say decoyed-into the service of Gov
| Wilson and Col. Harvey. The sue
| cecding 10 months brought me into
confidential relations witlr Gov Will
| son. Letters passed between us Tnen
| on his invitation and ON his business
| visited his home in Princeton He
| was good enough, last winter to come
| to the steamer to see me off for Itu-
| rope. We were even caught by the
Inevitable kodak tiend and PICTORIAL
lzed in the ribald press, sida by side
making quite a touching group.
Il found him a man of polished
manners, scholarly attainments and
l'undenabIe talents =.
"On my return from abroad. the
governor met me in New York Again
| in November and December we fore
gathered there, In short, nothing was
wanting to the most cordial and un-
| restrained intimacy.
81 make this detailed statement be-
cause the public might Well fancy
from the Governors present attitude
and tone that I had in some way
thrust myself upon him; and that my
friendship and support had not been
desired by him.
The fortnight Immediately preced-
ing tie interview at the Manhattan
Club, Of which I have been at pains
To say as little as WAS needful to JUS
tice between man and man and men
and c1en. / had done what | could in
the interest II his campaign l was
met uron nay arrival in New York by
| most urgent appeal for money from
a gentleman Of distinctions. closely
| associated with. if not actually direct
ing the Wilson organization alfd in
answer to this | was able at once to
secure a considerable sum of money.
The meeting at the Manhattan Club
was designed still further to push
forward and perfect the work of or
ganization. Else why, and for what
was the Governor there?
''To confuse and nlislead the public
he has latterlv adopted a policy of
alternate silence and sneering. Giving
| the lie direct to my statement that I
vas asked to help the financial end of
his campaign and declining my effort
body OF gentlemen and Democrats
equally concerned with ourselves for
the Well being of the party, he thinks
to cloud the issue and escape it's men
ace by turning upon me the irrespon-
sihle chatter of a literary bureau which
claims to live off the immaculate con-
trhutions Of subscribers having wings,
harps and halos, and which has been
. II.
every manner of Justification The
very existence of this, to say nothing
of the sources of its being, should set
hcnert people to thinking.
THE Ryan story, which has made such
an impression upon the unknoWing and
unret1eeting. was, as far as it related to
Col. Harvey, a lie out of whole cloth
Though Gov Wilson knows this, he has
allowed it. to circulate without u word of
contradiction. The attempt which follow
ed its exposure by me, to make it ap-
pear that I have intimated that appli-
cation was made to Mr. Ryan, is cut off
the same cloth, and is characteristic Of
thu duplicity which attaches itself to the
entire proceeding of the governor and
his publicity agents
"Tle suggestion Of Mr. Ryan was
eagerly caught up by those agents Fancy
political promoter refusing money
from anywhere or anybody, But when
spoke to Gov. Wilson about it he SAID
some uncivil things of Mr.. Ryan, ex-
pressing a fear that if the knowledge
Of such a contribution got abroad it
might do more harm than Eood-an opin-
ion which Col Harvey promptly con-
curred-and the matter Went no further
| might have asked Gov. Wilson how he
could reconcile his objection to Ryan
money, which had not yet been offered
him. with his demand for Carnegie pen
sion money, which had been denied him
But, although growing a little impatient
under his sudden change of demeanor I
did not wish to be disagreeable. Certain
it is that Mr.. Ryan never heard of the
matter, Neither | nor anyone else spoke
to him on the subject. The effort of the
Wilson promoters to revive it and bring
it to the front is simply an unpfincplol
attempt to divert public attention from
the fact that Gov. Wilson has rattling
round as a hero because of his indignant