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Senator La Folletto's cam-
girjanager Issued a statement
that the senator would take
after which he would be all
id. that ho would not retire
le contest.
LTE EXCHANGES IN THE
imiiSON-HAttVEY AFFAIR
t VloUowlng are Associated Press
'diknaiSihes: Now York. Jan. 30.
Imw York Evening Post has
lor tne sane oi justice to an
, to secure the publication
Correspondence between Gov-
ilson and Colonel Harvey.
fgense it applied to them both.
r wished to be nut in the noai-
Jgiving out private letters, but
sented to the publication with
tinct understanding that the
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first, letter to Colonel Harvey
lyernor WilBon is as follows:
diversity Club, Firth Avenue
64th street, December 21,
EPorHnnaT Mv Tloni nnlnnnl
Mjm W UW"M.I J SW . V J A .
,H;fMday I am confirmed in the
JM&inient that my mind is a one-
'tracjfroad and can run only one
t'ralSjof thought at a time. A long
J&niSSfter that interview witli you
'aMJarse Henry at tho Manhattan
eluijMt came over me that when (at
ose of the interview) you asked
at question about the weekly, I
rared it simply as a matter of
and of business and said never
rd of, my sincere gratitude to
for all your generous support, or
apr hope that it might be con-
.porgive me ana iorget my
rs. Faithfully yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
eply Colonel Harvey wrote to
or Wilson as follows:
Dear 'Governor Wilson: Re-
g to your note from tno Uni
ty cjub, ,1 think it should go
out saying that no purely per
ianal issue could arise between you
jgiime. Whatever anybody else may
warmise, you surely must know that,
inTrying t6 arouse further your poli-
tijl aspirations during the past few
-v l!&s have been actuated solely by
' .' lpy&DelIef tnat was rendering a dis-
-iftfnct public service.
otSR- a J'""111 a V"C "u, UL ""'
.interview as you aptly put it, one
vS$en you stated the fact to be that
.,tny support was hurting your can
didacy and that you were experienc
ing difficulty in finding a way to
counteract its harmful effect, the
ly thing possible for me to do in
mple fairness to you, no less than
consideration of my own self-re-ect,
was to relieve you of your
barrassment, so far as it lay with
my power to do so, by ceasing to
flvocate your nomination.
"That I think was fully under-
itood between us at the time and,
eting accordingly, I took down your
ame from the head of the Weekly s
Editorial page some days before your
fetter was written. That seems to
e all there is of it.
"Whatever little hurt I may have
felt as a consequence of the preemp-
toriness of your attitude toward me
ia, of course, wholly eliminated by
your gracious words. Very truly
yours, lijuuttuu; hakvujy."
Governor Wilson replied under
'date of January 11, as follows:
: "My Dear Colonel Harvey: Gen-
serous and cordial as was your letter
written in reply to my note from the
niversity club, it has left me un
easy, because, in its perfect frank
ness, it shows that I did hurt you
by what I so tactlessly said at the
Knickerbocker club. I am very much
ashamed of myself, for there is noth
ing I am more ashamed of than hurt-
ting a true friend, however uninten
tional the hurt may. have been. 1
Wanted very much to see you in
Washincton. but was absolutely cap
tured by callers every minute I was
in my rooms, and when I was not
there, was fulfilling public engage
ments. I saw you at the dinner, but
could not get at you, and after the
dinner was surrounded and pre
vented from getting at you. I am in
town today, to speak this evening,
and came in early in the hope of
catching you at your ofllce.
"For I owo it to you and to my
own thought and feeling to tell you
how grateful I am for all your gen
erous praise and support of mo (no
one has described me more nearly as
I would like to believe myself to bo
than you have), how I have admired
you for the Independence and un
hesitating courage and Individuality
of your course and how far I was
from desiring that you should cease
your support of me in the Weekly.
You will think mo very stupid, but
I did not think of that as the result
of my blunt answer to your question,
I thought only of the means of con
vincing people of the real indepen
dence of the Weekly's position. You
will remember that that was what
wo discussed and now that I have
unintentionally put you in a false
and embarrassing position you heap
coals of fire on my head by continu
ing to Kive out interviews favorable
to my candidacy. All that I can say
is that you have proved yourself very
big and that I wish I might have an
early opportunity to tell you face
to face how I really feel about it all.
"With warm regard, cordially and
faithfully yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
It is noted in the foregoing that
mention of the Knickerbocker in
stead of the Manhattan club is obvi
ously a slip 'of the pen. Colonel Har
vey's reply was as follows:
"Jan. 16, 1912. My Dear Gover
nor Wilson: Thank you sincerely
for your most handsome letter. I
can only repeat what I said before
that there is no particle of personal
rancor or resentment left in me.
And I beg you to believe that I have
not said one word to anybody of
criticism of you.
"I have to print a word of explana
tion to the Weekly's readers, but it
will be the briefest possible. Very
truly yours, GEORGE HARVEY."
night, sharing all I did and had done.
"As to the democrats who have
made a hero of Wilson because of his
break with Harvey, how shall thoy
square themselves with the eternal
verities, now that thoy learn that
Wilson and Harvey are weeping upon
one another's bosom?"
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Mrs. Hoyle "How much did her
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NOW EWING RESIGNS
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 30. Robert
Ewing of Middle, Tenn., member of
the "VVoodrow Wilson state com
mittee, resigned from the committee
today, giving as his reason "the ex
treme personal bitterness which has
lately developed between my brother-in-law,
Henry Watterson, and my
friend, Woodrow Wilson." Mr.
Ewing has been active in Mr. Wil
son's behalf for some time, but soon
after Mr. Watterson openly became
a part of the Harvey-Wilson incident
he gave out a statement upholding
Mr. Watterson's contention.
HERE'S A SLAP AT HARVEY
Columbia, S. C, Jan. 31. Henry
Watterson, enroute to his winter
homo in Florida, issued the follow
ing statement this afternoon on
the Wilson-Harvey-Watterson contro
versy: "Touching tho Harvey-Wilson let
ters given out yesterday, I have to
say that from the first to last I have
been acting not only with Colonel
Harvey's full knowledge and appro
val, but upon his insistence; that
from the beginning he was most im
patient of delay, sending a personal
representative to me at Atlanta the
24th day of December, and again the
same representative to Richmond the
31st of December, urging me to take
the initiative; that he was, unquali
fied in indorsing my statem'ent of
the Manhattan club incident, wiring
forthwith to declare It 'perfect,' and
he was with me at the New Willard
in Washington up to last Sunday
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