The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-20
HARVEY-WILSON
CONTROVERSY IS.
WELL EXPLAINED
JUDGE EWING, RELATIVE OF GOV.
WILSON, AND COL. WATERS IN,
GIVES OUT A STATEMENT. :.
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Friends Of Governor Have; M'slnter-
preted Meaning of Farper's Week.
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W Support soi New jersey Candidate.
No III Feeling Irte |; ed.

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Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 10. Robert
Ewing, middle Tennessee representa-
tive of the state Woodrow Wilson or
ganization, and related by marriage
to both Governor Wilson and Henry
Watterson, today gave out statement
relative to the Harvey Wilson Incl
dent ~
1T so happens says the statement,
that I am prepared to give what
believe to be- a substantially correct
acoount Al meeting which took place
II New ty some three weeks
20 be ss3lcnel Harvey. edno.- of
Har9ers Weekly; Henry Watterson,
edstdr q the Courier Journal, and
Ccra-ncr Wilson. "
Judge Ewing says that the publish
ing house of Harper and Brothers,
which issues Harper's Weekly, Jas
the publisher of Wilson'S history of
the United States. Some years. ago it
was reported that ]. P. Morgan fur
nished that house with some financial
aid, but not, as was generally under
stood, with any political purpose in
view. The statement continues:
Judge Ewng's Statement.
Colonel Harvey's intimates, know
ing his character well, knew that his
editorial utterances were wholly un-
trammelled and that whatever he
wrote had as its inspiration his sin
cere conviction of what was best FOR
the country. He had been, years
before, brought into intimate connec-
ton, in fact, close friendship, with
Woodrow Wilson and had conceived
the highest estimate of his character
and capabilities, as everyone who en-
joys like opportunity is bound to do.
when the time seemed ripe to him
he, IN a, series of editorials in Har-
per's Weekly, presented Woodrow
Wilson's name to the democrats of
the country as the man, in his judg-
ment, in every way fit to be nominated
as. the democratic candidate or pres
ident. These editorials continued to
appear with each issue, growing
stronger and stronger until the at
tention of all the readers everywhere
was drawn to them. Many not know
ing the real independence of Colonel
Harvey, and seeking to harm the Will
son cause, began to indulge in all
sorts of conjectures as to what could
be moving the Weekly to SO ardently
champion Wilson's nomination, while
Others did not hesitate to put these
conjectures into unfounded intima-
tons. AS result a goodly number
of Wilson's friends began to be of
the opinion that perhaps the Weeky's
constant and earnest isuppore was
initiating against his prospects,
Governor Wilson's Opinion.
The statement says that Governor
Wilson himself was of the contrary
opinion, approaching that Colonel
Harvey had brotight him to the front.
At this juncture the meeting IN New
York was held in the rooms of Col
oneI Watterson. AS Goyernor wilson
arose to leave, Colonel Harvey is &C
credited in the statement with say
ing:
Governor Wilson, wish to ask you
a question, and l expect from you
perfectly frank answer. Do you be-
lieve that the booming nature of my
articles in Harper's Weekly is injur-
ing your cause?" .1lAR(tA
Governor Wilson, thus appealed to,
was greatly embarrassed, but he told
them what he thought was the, i'm
preston being created by the inten-
sity of his editorials. Colonel Harvey
then said:
We'll, | will have to put on the soft
pedal
All then parted in apparent perfect
cordiality. Colonel Harvey may have
been disappointed, and perhaps
wounded, by the reply. Thinking over
the matter since has evidently tended
to increase this feeling.
Wilson Won't Talk. $3.50