Show Gout Will Sill Ashington Dec toot today to day requested Gen n 11 C Mor Mer retired to inform the tho department It if he hA uvas nH quoted correctly In hi nn an al 01 alleged interview In leaver yesterday In which ho he is III made mallo to say RIY that tilt appointment of at Leonard Wood to bo major general Is generally unpopular with rummy army men aid that such lIuch appointments tend to unsettle lire tho und timid injure Its morale Time Tho gen general eral was waR asked to make lion nil an lie ho may deem le m proper Detner Dec n Merriam tte de today having ever said that the tho appointment of at Gen Oen Wood would lower the moral 1 standard ard ot of th the rr army I cnn can ani only say added the general that In the published Interview my m 1 words word were greatly Arenth enlarged upon and i that I have havo been credited with wino making nn an which cannot null be detrimental to but to the army |