Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-18
WILSON DENIES he
EVER COMMENDED
REED FOR SERVICE
Calls Campaign Manag-
er Down for a Mis-
statement
DOES NOT TRUST REED
Never Loyal to Cause or
Friend, Says Former
President ~
(By Associated PreAsl

st. Louis, April 18.-Woodrow
Wilson, former president, in letter
last hight, denied statement print
ed recently in The Globe-Democrat
that he had thanked Senator James
A. Reed, democratic candidate for
nomination and reelection for "great
service which the senator rendered
him perfecting and passing the fed
eral reserve BILL" The statement was
issued by Lee Meriwether, attorney
and supporter. of Reed, here.
Accompanying Mr.. Wilson's letter
The Democrat prints another
from Senator Reed in which pur-
ported copy of the letter from Wilson
to Reed is given. The letter from the
former president follows:
"I note in your issue of April IL
that one Lee Meriwether is quoted as
saying that he had seen letter from
me to Senator Reed warmly thank
ing 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, l clearly remember that Mr..
Reed, as member of the committee
on banking and currency, interposed
every possible objection to the COM
pletion and adoption of the bill. His
objections, indeed, were SO many, SO
varied and so inconsistent with one
another that l recall speaking to him
about them in conversation. Having
spoken of reading a certain parody
on a well-known novel, l told him
that his course in the committee re-
minded me of the conduct of the hero
in that parody, who, when rejected
bv the heroine, rushed from the
house, mounted several horses and
rode off in every direction.
i, "Statemens such as the one quoted
from Mr.. Meriwether appear to be
intended to create the impression
that Mr.. Reed and l have held the
same principles and advocated the
same policies, and that he is entitled
to and NAV be assumed to have my
endorsement as candidate for re-
election to the senate. This Is far
from being the case. To those VINO
have closely observed Mr.. Reeds ca
reer in Washington he has shown
himself incapable of sustained allie
glance to any person or any cause
He has repeatedly forfeited any clam
to my confidence that he may ever
have been supposed to have, and
shall never willingly consent to any
further association with him.
81 beg that you will do me the
courtesy to publish this letter.
every truly yours,
"WOoDROW WILSON" .
A letter and statement given W
Washington representative of The
Globe Democrat by Senator Reed
says in part:
81 did have a difference with the
president, entirely good-natured, over
the Federal Reserve bank bill. The
kernel of the controversy was that
the president insisted that the bill''
whic hhad originated in and been
passed by the house, should be re-
ported out of the senate committee
and passed very speedily without
giving a rnopportunity for hearings
| insisted that hearings should be
granted and they were granted. As
result Of the hearings, the bill was
amended hundreds of times"
Meriwether today repeated his
statement that he had seen a copy
of letter by former President VIII
son praising Reeds attitude on the
federal reserve bill.
Meriwether said he also had seen