The Washington herald., 1914-10-05
wilson SOOTHES
EDITORS WRATH
President, Harvey, and Marse
Henry Watterson Are
Friends Again.
FORGET PAST POLITICS
Col. Harvey. on Invitation, Spends
Hour at White House" Says the
Executives Unusual Statement.

President Wilson and Col George Har,
vey are friends again. So also are the
President and Marse Henry watterson
The famous Manhattan Club incident
which blasted friendships, filed the news.
papers with columns upon columns OF
statements and made Col watterson
talk about fighting a duel, has been for
given and forgotten. All is serene agar
between the President and his two editor
friends. Only the Hon. Jim Smith, Of
New Jersey, whose name figured In the
passages growing out Of the Manhattan
Club episode, remains shiverfng in the
cold.
Evidence Of the reconciliation between
the President and Col Watterson was
contained in the following announcement
made at the White House tonight:
Visits White House.
"Col. Harvey. on the invitation OF the
President, spent an hour with him at the
White House this afternoon discussing
the general situation"
It Is not usual for the President to
issue statements of this character in re-
gard to his visitors, and Il was apparent
that Mr.. Wilson intended that special
significance should be attached to this
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was terminated at yesterday afternoon's .
interview has lasted since the spring OF
1872 when Mr.. Wilson's candidacy for
the Presidential nomination was Just
getting into full swing.
Col. Harvey was the first man to sug-
gest Woodrow Wilson for President He
launched the boom at dinner OF the
Lotus Club In New York. and continued
to promote It when others regarded 1t
as more or less OF joke.
Through his edftorship of Hafper's
Weekly, Col Harvey was q strong instru-
mentality In drawing strength to the
Wilson candidacy in the year preceding
the Baltimore convention. In the spring
Of 1872, however, Mr. Wilson began to
fear that the support of Harper's Weekly
was injuring him among the more radical
elements of the Democratic party.
How the Break Occurred.
One day at the Manhatton Club in New
York, at a conference attended by Col.
Harvey and Col. Henry Watterson, Mr..
Wilson frankly told Col. Harvey Of his
conviction that he would be better on
with Harper's Weekly taking a less
prominent part in the campaign.
The disruption Of Mr.. Wilson's friend
ship with the two colonels followed. Mr..
Wilson'S name was withdrawn from the
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page of Harper's Weekly, and Col. Wat
terson declared that Mr.. Wilson was a
man willing to sacrifice his personal
friendships to his political ambitions.
Col. watterson also withdrew his sup
port of the Wilson candidacy, and for
weeks there was q war Of words which
centered partly about the charge that
Wall Street support was being sought
with the knowledge of the Wilson man
ayers. 1
1t was learned yesterday that recently
Col. watterson and President Wilson re-
newed their old-time friendship through
an exchange Of letters, and that inter
course between the two men is now on
as warm as basis as ever. The belief
in Washington is that 1t will not be
long before Marse Henry Is welcomed at
the white House in the same way that
Col. Harvey was yesterday.