New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Reed Is False
Wilson SAYS
Repudiates Reported In.
dorsement of Nissou.
rian,and Declares Never
TO Associate With Him
Special Dispatch to Tho r,ibun,

special Dispatch to Tho Triburr
ST. -OUlS, April 17.-Woodrow Will
son, in letter received by the editor
Of THE Globe Democrat" TODAY,
scathingly criticized Senator James A.
Reed, Democrat, and candidate for re-
election, and declared that Reed was
incapable of sustained allegiance to
any person or any cause"
He added that Reed has "repeatedlv
forfeited any claim to my confdencc
that he may ever have supposed to
have had and that he would "nevei
willingly consent to any ny>further asso-
ciatioe with him"
statement by Lee Meriwether. st.
LOUIS lawyer and ardent supporter Of
Senator Reed, which was published bv
lhe Globe-Democrat" in It's issue Of
April II, prompted the Wilson epis-
tolary bomb. The letter follows:
Z340 5 Street N. w, Washington
d. G., April Is, 1929.
My Dear Sir; [ note in your issue
Of April II that one Lee Meriwether is
quoted as saying he had seen letter
from me to Senator Reed warmly
thanking him for the great service the
Senator rendered in perfecting and
passing the Federal Reserve bill" [
have no recollection of ever having
written any such letter. On the con-
trary, | clearly remember that Mr..
Reed. as a member of the Committee
on Banking and Currency, interposed
every possible objection to the COM
pletlon and adoption of the bill.
Like Parody on Novel
His objections, indeed, were so
many, so varied and so inconsistent
with one another that | recall speak =
ing to him about them in conversa-
ton.
Having spoken OF reading a certain
parody on q well-known novel, ! told
him that his course in the committee
reminded me of the conduct of the
hero in that parody, who, when re-
jected by the heroine, rushed from the
house, mounted several horses and rode
off in every direction.
Statements, such as the one quoted
from Mr.. Meriwether, appear to be
intended to create the impression that
Mr.. Reed and | have held the same
principles and advocated the same
policies, and that he is entitled to and
may be assumed to have my indorse
ment as a candidate for reelection to
the Senate. This is far from being the
case. To those who have closely OBJ
servd Mr.. Reeds career in Washing
ton he has shown himse incapable
of sustained allegiance to any person
or any cause. He has repeatedly for
feited any claim to my confidence that
he may ever have been supposed to
have and l shall never willingly con-
70 f1rt acCnpj9tlOn will
him. | beg that you will do me the
courtesy to publish this letter.
every truly yours,
"WOODROW WILSON,"
Wilson Policies Campaign Issue
The part of Meriwether's statement
to which Mr.. Wilson objected was that
Senator Reed had been warmly thanked
by the former President for the great
service which the Senator rendered him
in perfecting and passing the Federal
Reserve bill"
Meriwether's statement was issued in
reply to a campaign statement by W..
R. Hollister, of jefferson City, cam
paign manager for Breckenridge Long,
q candidate against Reed for United
States Senator, in which Hollister said
that the campaign would be waged by
Long in support of the principles, poll
cies and ideals of Woodrow Wilson.
From, The Trtoune's Washington Burea"
Reed Produces Commendation
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator
Reed tonight exhibited letter which
he said he had received from former
President Wilson, explaining that 1T
had been written after Senate hearings
on the reserve bank bill. This letter,
dated October %, 1918, follows:
MY Dear Senator:
81 hesitate to ask you to break in
upon what must be one Of the busiest
weeks you have had by requesting you
to come to the White House in order
that I may say what it is perfectly
possible for me to say in letter |
want to thank you very warmly and
sincerely for your statement made
through a New York newspaper. l
have felt all along the sincere honesty
and independence of your judgment
you were exercising in this whole mat
ter, and you may be sure that there
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