| Show NEST PREST ROOSEVELT Receives a Letter from Henry M Whitney that Angers Him Much CURTLY REFUSES TO SEE HIM HIMA Aril A Hint I I I iii iii if I I I lug III I I I III IUs I I i i t t mint I Ice Wilful M II Nov NOI 20 Henry M II Whitney Democratic D candidate for or lieutenant governor nt at the lust lam 1 election I cllon tonight public correspondence which hUll had been 1111 ell I etc n velt himself if the Iho state by IJ the president nn Oil last winter which Will VuIS grunt grant til cl to u it committee commit Ice from rain no tt 1 nl sun u u The pr Informed time tho chu committee lint called on omm him lust week In favor of or tree free hides lint M III r Whitney html hail deliberately Rented what had hol occurred nt mit lust last win INa conference With this experience In mind time the president declined to In enter upon 11 mm discussion of or tree tco hides with time the free fre hid os committee commit lee the of ot which was Go 1111 L I Douglass This statement of Mr Mm II Whitney dui dum lag IlIg time the In III ett i that hunt the told him ho hn favored reciprocity with Canada 1118 aH that lint I to the tho pre took look After 4 ft or time the had U made e PU hi he lilt hili rites to 10 tho Iho t it 0 hides committee I tee chur r Info I tug Mi II r ii with I tim inn t Mi Ill t r Whit lie maintained nail mm ed that Ihn t ima t I th had spoken In favor of o ty with v it im Canada on all o a 1 bran I linen lilies during their Interview In lum tho ho which Is IH lIven publicity Mr 1 Whitney wrote to In no that time tho president hint luul I done urine him hi mu III u II grent gren t Injustice I St ico In chartr chin vi IIII I mug him hlIn him with wi tim wilful wi a I UlI 1111 an nim with tho time dent and nUI alit expressed ht hl regret tuft thin reci reciprocity red dl l not nol have hac the presidents In lit Ilor t tIn In hIs hid reply Hoo elt II iii that Mr Mm II letter fin Cur iii evidence of the time sic wis dom damn of ot my refusing r ru to 10 communicate further with you yuu anti asserts that butt nothing he me hUH hax ever exer el raid Mill hind lind Mr Ir Whitney hi it ney thu Iho t ci t l vuu ram mm t In iii mall hunk InI tho tito statement that was wn not hint to 10 have the presidents mild aid Hi lie outages Mr ii Ir r Whitney with making nd nil and closes IMell by hy to 10 grunt grummt the Iho request requested ed vu II Interview rI w Mi III Whitneys letter to 10 time the president follows mIR Ain rn WHITNEYS Boston Nov IT Sir You 1011 have dono done donome donome me II a HI gloat eat Injustice In Pm publicly assert ns erl ing hll that I have wilfully misrepresented your our attitude on time the question of ot ted reci reciprocity with timid and that this thin wa was wal i done In iii cowardly by IJ saying It II ita nt III a t time the time I j did ml hi under conditions it when tho un t dignity I ty of or your you r hl itt h prevented you yon OU from from 1011 denying den I think I urn a ma not mint open to 10 this t im Is chime go I claim In III I mm my may m humble ide way WU to be bc u it fair mm I r lighter tee I believe lIco I have n iI welt well established und well deserved dUller reputation In III thus this cum com community for or and alII Justice Juelle I may lulay hue misunderstood l hence may lumay have hn 0 been beon led lell Pita Into error You have havo charged me with nn an offense of ot which I Iam am nut not guilty you rou have havo ha 0 condemned mo I appeal to your sense of or fair lIe dM for a II personal hearing My I public utterances touching your our attitude on this are very er few IW and very er brief I 1 will bring them with me IIII If It you OU grant me mae this request I will have time the la ules marked anti and anI It II will viii not nol take you two minutes to 10 rend rent them I trust therefore that you yon OU will grant my II request but bul whether wh lher you ou do door door door or do not 1101 I shall regret more than Ihan any numy thing In commotion with this matter that time the cause of ot with neighboring nel countries of at to ito o much value to 10 to our people nud to the whole of nf time the race Is III not to 10 have the In of oC your rOlli great Kroat name and amid time the benefit of or your OUI potent aid aidI 1 I take mike time the liberty of ot enclosing lucre hero herewith with ft it 1 public Im made by ht h my may myself self and limit my illY associates touching time the Ih matter nt our Interview with you last laAI winter which perhaps you rOil may mil not riot have seen P ami very PI re ye respectfully M 1 The letter from the president to 10 Mr 1 Whitney IH 14 us ilK follows Nov No 18 IS 1 1905 1 Kir I 1 have ha 0 your our let letter tem ter 1 1 of III the lust In lii view of my mr experience with you OU I 1 am to o with regret rl tel that It II I is out omit of n the tit question for or me mime to III grant you ou interview In Jim yours of Nov 17 IZ In which you make this Ihl request l you on furnish additional evidence of o tho the wis wisdom wl dom of my I refuting rota I hum g to communicate mutest to further with t you my may refusal be d upon lIlon ii your our iti r evident Inability to 10 uti utiler u ml ler or determination t ion to In 1 reec 8 itt what I say In III this Ihs letter you rou stilt state I that you regret more mature than thou any anything thing else I I In III connection with this mat matter ter or that the tho righteous of ut reel teel with neighboring countries of or mi mit h value to 10 your people and to 10 the Ihl of time the human race Is III not mint to 10 hl time the Indorsement of ot your mv Ill great Ir lIt name and time tho benefit of or your our my lilY potent nit Nothing that 1 I have salt said nt lit any time has given you time the tightest for or hilt lu I a g this Ihl t ii is ns assert on n when themi In itt Inthe tile the very VCr 11 letter nuking for Cor an Interview and It denying yin g thit Ihal t yon ever r wilfully wi I fully mis misrepresented represented my nt III previous remarks you I another I he r ii t mis misstatement mum is statement you ou can hardly wonder wUll er that Ihal I decline lime to 10 sen sea you nor liar would there here In Pm any ml Pent event t hI the he Ih t slightest as t point In iii an Interview im I I at ervI III In your speeches joti ou pretended to In quote from train memory certain lii I mu statements stat oilmen te made In hum time tho course of ot n mm long lon than occurring a mu 1 year previous Yon 1011 quoted hart e of ot ii f what I t suld sit oven Ion as its II to 10 these portions your was Inaccurate amid nit all time the context wits was suppressed As a n result you ruu as 1114 coma com completely misrepresented mo lao as tic In tim time tho of your letter which I above It matters little whether tile this was title duo to 10 a deliberate purpose of or or to lOlL a lack hack In iii both holh your our companions and yourself of a it 1 lIce hl l of lit propriety and of or time tho power of o eXact thinking ilium of correct apprehension sion and repetition of what was us said In either event I 1 feet feel It II would wealth verve FIrn no mm useful lI purpose to 10 ste or OC further r to 10 correspond with you jou You are mure at mit liberty to mako this cur cor correspondence public If It I f you ou choose chinese c Yours The enclosures referred to In by lIy Mr Whitney wern Iff ern copies of or letters from Andrew U n J Webster nf of this city and J JM f 1 fI M mI I W V Hall hail of oC Who wi went to Washington Wn with Mr III Whitney as its II numbers of ot time the committee III In which Hail and r stati that Mr Ur Account gf It t what whal occurred at itt tim tho Ih Interview In was Willi In III agree agreement ment with their memory of what was said I I |
