Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
E'WOODROW WILSON
AS | KNOW HIM"
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me that question about the
Weekly I answered it simply as
a matter of fact and of business,
and said never a word of my
sincere gratitude to you for all
your generous support, or of my
hope that it might be continued.
Forgive me, and forget my man
ners! Faithfully, yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
To which letter Colonel Harve.
ent the following reply:
PersonaD.
Franklin Square,
New York. Jan. 4, 1912.
My Dear Governor Wilson:
Replying to your note from
the University club, think it
should go without saying that
no purely personal issue could
arise between you and me.
Whatever anybody else may sur
mise, you surely must know that
in trying to arouse and further
your political aspirations during
the past few years I have been
actuated solely by the belief that
[ was rendering a distinct public -
service.
The real point at the time of
our interview was, as you aptly
put it, one simply 'of fact and
of business" and when you
stated the fact to be that my
support was hurting your can
didacy, and that you were eX-
periencing difficulty in finding a
way to counteract it's harmful eff
feet, the only thing possible for
me to do, in simple fairness to
you, no less than in considera-
ton of my own self-respect, was
to relieve you of your embarrass-
ment so far as it lay within my
power to do so, by ceas1ng to adj
vocate your nomination. That,
1 think, was fully understood
between us at the time, and, act
ing accordingly, I took down
your name from the head of the
Weekly's editorial page some
ten. That seems to be all there
is to it.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE HARVEY.
To Colonel Harvey's letter Gov
.rnor Wilson replied as follows:
PersonaD
Hotel Astor.
New York, Jan. II, 1912.
My Dear Colonel Harvey:
Generous and cordial as was
your letetr written in reply to
my note from the University
club, it has left me uneasy, be-
cause, in it's perfect frankness,
it shows that l did hurt you by
what 1 so tactlessly said at the
Knickerbocker club. am very
much ashamed of myself, for
there. is nothing L am more
ashamed of than hurting a true
friend, however unintentional
the hurt may have been. |
wanted very much to see you in
Washington, but was absolutely
captured, by callers every minute
was in my roms, and when l
was not there was fulfilling pub
lie engagements. l saw you at
at dinner. but could not get at
you, and after the dinner was
surrounded and prevented from
getting at you. | am in town to-
day, to speak this evening, and
came in early in the hope of
catching you at your office.
For I owe it to you and to
my own thought and feeling to
tell you how grateful I am for
all your generous praise and
support of me mo one has de-
scribed me more nearly as l
would like myself to be than
you have; how 1 have admired
you for the independence and
unhesitating courage and indiVid-
uality of your course; and how
far I was from desiring that
you should cease your support
of me in the Weekly. You
will think me very stupid-but
[ did not think of that as the
result of my blunt answer to
your question. I thought only
of the means of convincing PEG
pie of the real independence of
the Weekly's position. You will
remember that that was what
we discussed. And now that !
have Internationally put you in
a false and embarrassing posi-
ton, you heap Goals of fire on
my head by continuing to give
out interviews favorable to my
candidacy! All that 1 can say
is that you have proved your
self very big and that / wish
I might have an early oppor-
tunity to tell you face to face
how I really feel about it all.
With warm regard.
Cordially and faithfully yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
For a while it seemed as if the oil
relations between the Colonel an
the New Jersey governor would /
resumed. but some unfriendly infll
ice, ben upon the governors III
doing, thrust itself into the affat
and soon the story of the Mania
tan club incident broke about til
Princetonian's head with a fury an
bitterness that deeply distresse
many of Mr. Wilson's frien6
throughout the country. The imm
date effect upon his candidacy We
almost disastrous. Charges of il
gratitude to the "original Wilso
man" flew thick and fast. M, Wi
sons enemies throughout the coul
try took up the charge of ingratituC
and soon the stock of the New Je
sey man began to fall, until h
immediate friends almost lost hear
The bad effect of the publication {
the Harvey atterson correspond
ence and the bitter attacks upC
the sincerity of the New Jersey go
ernor were soon perceptible in tt