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Show DECLARES EDITOR j I SHOULD GIVE PROOF Otherwise Senator Tillman Dedinesto Reply to Challenge Chal-lenge of Watterson. QUESTION OF VERACITY I ( ji i v. nor Wilson and the Ken-lucky Ken-lucky Colonel Have Told Different Stories. W ASHINGTON, Jan JT .Senator Ren-Jamin Ren-Jamin it. TlHman of sjouth Carolina to- declined to reply to COL Henry Wat- (. :.:.,!-- . : ilhliKf ol 'a ! 1 1 i t; ) i f ll) eon nee- Lion with the nratterson-THlman-Har-?ey -Wilson controversy. 'ir Colonel (Vatterson bas any proofs or w'.at tie says, he ought to publish them. I have nothing more to say." This etas Senator Tillman's only com- . iii It had oeeri e-JKU I' d carlk'l hi th.- da that he would make s detailed reply, i ol nel Watterson in the '.iientintf had Issued another statement. In which be a'd : Watterson s Statement. in my letter to Senator TlUman i promlasd proof of any statement mads by ms that mie'it be dispute. i. Governor Wilson denies thai i had any authorization from him or are. agent of his to raise money for his i ,i mpeigra 1 haVe the proof that 1 have not only authorisation, but that I actually actu-ally raised a. considerable, sum. i hold myself ready to furnish the proof lo nator Tillman at once ir h. Will do tii" the honor personally to call on mo. as 1 am confined to my hotel and cannot call on him If Senator Tillman's ingie averment .iller Inspecting this prOOf hC either equivocal or Insufficient, I propose that Governor Wilson name; two con-fidential con-fidential friends. I naming two, the four tO name a fifth, and this court Ol gentlemen established to determine the issue hot wee n us. I must Insist thai this be done wlthOUl delay as I -h.ll have to leave Washington noxl Tuesday night to i, n important engagements elsewhere. Says Matter Settled. Senator Tilman later dictated ih following: fol-lowing: Senator Tillman declined to be Interviewed In-terviewed further In regard to the un Idenl, saying there wn' no loiiRei an in.-ne between Colonel Watterson and himself. Tiie Isrile Is now he- tween Governor Wilson and Colonel Watt rson and they must settle it for themselves. So far as he was concerned, con-cerned, he considered the matter sei-Cled sei-Cled and ended. Harvey Not Talking. nkw VORK, inn :T. Col. George Harvey, editor .f Harpers Weekly, said today thai he did not propose to say a thing aboul the latest, developments in the nUman-Watterson-Harvey-WHson COtlt rover. jy. The colonel said he had rc:d iiie correspondence cor-respondence between Senatoi Tillman and ColOnel Walti i ion He would not say anything about the statement thai correspondence cor-respondence had passed between Governor Gover-nor Wilson and himself sun e the break. which Govcrnoi Wilson was willing Should be made public Asked if he would make a statement latet fm ths Tlllman-Watterson correspondence corre-spondence or hl break frith Governor W ilson. Colonel Harvey laughed end replied. re-plied. "God bless me. l don't know I think I'll keep out of it foiever from now on." |