The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-19
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer.
Copyright 1922.
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Politics
is no longer adjourned with Woodrow
Wilson. Publication of his letter to the
st. Louis Globe Democrat denying that
he had ever written letter commend
ing Senator James Reed of Missouri
for his part in the making of the fed
eral reserve act, has been followed by
the circulation of Photographic copies
of the communication itself.
Although it had been supposed that
the former president would stay in Sc
clusion and that his letter to the New
York Times repudiating message
read at the Cox dinner was prompted
by desire to remove himself from pres
ent sour politics, scarcely a week has
elapsed and the former president has is
sued a letter which will be used in the
primary campaign in which Brecken-
ridge Long, a close friend of Mr.. Viii
son, is endeavoring to wrest the Demo
cratic nomination from Mr.. Reed.
Mr.. Wilson's letter to the Globe-Dem-
ocrat est. Louis) states that he has
no recollection of ever. having written
any letter warmly thanking Senator
Reed for the great service the senator
rendered in perfecting and passing the
that he clearly remembers that Mr.
Reed interposed every possible objection
to the completion and adoption of the
bill"
Wilson's Letter.
Something is wrong with Mr. Will
sons power of recollection. For the
text of the letter written by Mr.. Will
son on Oct. %, 1913. was photographed
and widely circulated. Indeed. the lat
ter was used with the permission of
the White House. Here is it's full text {:
My Dear Senator Il hesitate to
ask you to break in upon what must
be one of the busiest weeks which you
have had by requesting you to come to
the White House in order that | may
say what it is perfectly impossible for
me to say in a letter. | write to thank
you very warmly and sincerely for your
statement made through the New York
newspapers. l have felt all along the
sincere honesty and independence of
Judgment you were exercising in this
whole matter and you may be sure that
there has never been in mind any criti-
clsm except on an occasional difference
of Judgment. / think that things are
now shaping themselves admirably and
/ am quite willing to admit that the
have contributed to the result. / feel
that | can count on YOU from this time
out to play a leading part in bringing
this matter to a satisfactory issue and /
want YOU to know what satisfaction it
gives me to feel that / can do this
Cordially and faithfully yours,
.. WOODROW WILSON.
p. $. Please call upon me at any
time you would like to confer about any
feature of the matter" (Signed with the
initials w. W.
Reed Insisted Upon Hearings.
Looking back over the events of the
autumn of 1913. it will be found that
the senator from Missouri insisted
strongly upon hearings. Mr.. Wilson.
who was impatient to rush the legisla-
ton through, thought it might mean
endless delay and naturally looked upon
the suggestion of hearings as an OBJ
structlve measure. In his letter to Mr..
Reed, however, he admitted later that
the hearing had been good thing and
that the processes upon which you have
insisted have contributed to the good
result obtained when the bin was re-
ported from the committee.
But even though the letter was writ
ten i'll October. 1913, and the bill was
passed and signed in December of the
same year Mr.. Reed did not have oc-
:asion to use the letter until his cam
paign for reelection in 1916, nearly
.hrec years afterward. Mr. Reeds
friends used it then as they are doing
low to show that on a great piece of
constructive legislation of domestic |
character Mr.. Reed was at the side of |
Mr. Wilson. ..s=
Other parts of the former presidents |