Show j VOOO KNEW BEllAIRS i Says He Showed Correspondent Correspond-ent No Favors FOUND HIM RELIABLE II I 11 i i General Story njrs I i in Detail ti De-tail FrGm Testimony I I I I Claims He Had Nothing to Do With Bellairss Appointments Directly Di-rectly or Indirectly I I I New York Doc 2TI Commercial t Advertiser today prints a letter signed by t Gen Leonard Wood and addressed to Dr Horace Fletcher of Yale university In f which the wilier tells of his aoauahuanci with Edgar G Bcllairs In the letter which was written at Cnlro on May 12th I last Gen Wood referring to Bellalrs said f J III the spring of ISM he was promoted L to Havana from Santiago not at my request 4 re-quest of suggestion directly or Indirectly i l as I remember it He asked absolutely no j1 favors of me or I so far as 1 know from z any one r SORRY TO HAVE HIM GO After my transfer to Havana as Governor ii Gov-ernor of the whole Island in December t 1SW ttclialrs continued on duty I should r say about live months and was then sent 4 J t to China and the Philippines not nt my t f I suggestion or roijuest directly or liuil II I J f roctly 1 was sorry to have him go as we I nil liked him and found him reliable In i1t I the Philippines Uellalrs was a believer in military government Instead of civil and i I apparently wrote accordingly and of i course trouble with the civil government In the way of loss of friendly relations i f f followed i t DENIES TIlE STORY 1 f After Bellulrs left some one published I 1 what purported to be a tory of Bellairs I past and pointed out that ho was my particular par-ticular friend and that I sent him to China Chi-na and that his altitude toward the civil I I government war U my suggestion and I 1 I that I was working to relieve Taft etc I conclusions ns false as they are childish and silly Who started tho thing no one knows but doubtless spine of the people I r I had to handle without gloves during my if I r stay in Cuba r TREATED BOTH AIIKE It was farfetched and dishonest and Intended to create trouble This Is the whole story Bullalrs was In no way especially I espe-cially Intimate with me or ny family 1 that I Is to sa > 1 do not think that in all this Cuban service he was at my table 4 more than three or at most four times i I paw him daily as I did the Sun man I and gave them such news as 1 could They were treated exactly alike |