Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-05
LENT AID TO AMBITIONS
New York Editor Original Backer Of
Princeton Man.
AFRAID OF WALL STREET
New Jersey Executive Believed to Be
Trying to Shake OF Ah1iation
With Interests"

| Democratic senators and represent
atives were very much interested today
in dispatch from Trenton, n. j., stat
| ing that Gov. Woodrow Wilson had
broken with Col. George w. Harvey.
the original Wilson boomer, and had
intimated that Col. Harveys support Of
his candidacy was more hurtful than
helpful
The construction which democrats here
placed upon the statement was that if
1t is true it signifies another effort on
the part of Gov. Wilson to dissociate
himself in a marked manner from Col
Harvey's alleged affiliations with big
business" and the interests" in New
York
Some democrats said that as an in
stance Of political ingratitude such &C
stand among the most notable cases
of history.
Pushed Wilson's Candidacy.
Everybody acquainted with the inside
details of the gubernatcrial campaign in
New Jersey in 1909 knows that if there
is one individual who more than an
other is responsible for the exploitation
VI Wv. NilSO that iudII 10 SCOI &c W.
Harvey. In season and out he doomed
Wilson. and what is more to the point,
| he made successful job of 1t.
! 1t will be recalled that at that time the
| charge was made that big financial in
| terests in New York We're in SYM athy
with Gov. Wilson's candidacy. Certainly
the similar interests in New Jersey, re-
| spending to the suggestion of ex-senator
| Smith. were entirely friendly.
BE that as it may. the first thing Gov.
Wilson did when he became governor was
| to give refutation to the CHARGES that he
| was party to any decker with big bust
ness by turning down ex-senator Smi III s
| claim on the senatorship and insisting
upon the election of Mr.. MARITIME Demo
! Gratis here are wondering IL Gov. Wi SO 4
| Is intent upon further accentua ing h S
| freedom from the influence of Gig b.si-
| ness by turning against his former back
| err, Col. Harvey.
Still Another Version.
Another explanation Of the friendliness
| of certain New York men of power to
Wilson was given during The campa gn of
| 1909 1t was said that certain Princeton
men were DESTROYS of getting Gov. Wilson
out of Princeton, without hurting his
feelings. and lent themselves gladly to
the political ambitions of the proxy of
their alma mater. Former Princetonia. is
| who are now connected with Morgan u
| Co. were mentioned in this connec lion.
1t appears evident to democrats here
| that Gov. Wilson is intent upon separat-
| ing himself conspicuously from the con-
sentative element of the demOc. at pa. t,
and to keep out of the deadly Upas ,.ade
| of Wall street Affiliations. He is
termined. they say. not 20 be Overtaken
by the direful fate which the Organizes
charge has befallen another notable can
| didate Tor the presidential nomination.
uarvav Save NothinC
NEW YORK, January 5.-When Col.
Harvey was asked about the Trenton
story over the telephone he merely asked
| what the reporter had heard about it
and further he said not.
| Col. Harvey has always been regarded
as the inventor of the wilson boom for
| the presidency The orators who spoke
| tor Vivian NJ. Lewis, the republican OPP
| ponent of Gov. Wllson in the last gu
| .ernaJoriai campaIen IN New jersey,
| never lost an opportunity to refer to the
| fact that Wilson'S campaign was beng
| backed by Col. Harvey and his paper
printed in New York.
| the right hama man of Lewis used to
| read a poem from The platforms around
| the state N which he pictured the colonel
fixing up Gov. Wilson's nomination in a
| downtown office bu lding.
Wilson Not Mentioned.
Editorially and in long interviews siar-
per's Weekly was for long time full of
praise of DR.. wilson and Of suggestion of
| something bigger than the Jersey soy.
erorsh.p for him. There was hardly a
| number that did not contain some men,
ton Of the Jersey scholar in politics.
But in the Weekly for December % and
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