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Show ! DR. BUTLER SENDS HIS APOLOGY TO COLONEL PROCTOR CINCINNATI. O., June 22 Colonel "William Cooper Proctor today made public a telegram of apology he received from Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Col-umbia unlcrslty. sent In answer to Proctor's demand to know whether or not Mr. Butler had been accurately quoted In a published pub-lished Interview in which ho was to have declared thai gamblers and stock market players wore General Wood's orluclplc backers in his campaign or the presidential presiden-tial nomination. Dr. Butler's to'egram follows: "Auswerlng your telegram June 15. 1 am convinced thai my words spoken under the strain, turmoil ' and fatigue of the Chicago convention con-vention and In sharp revolt against the power of money in politics were both unbecoming and unwarranted, and that I should and do apologize to each and every one who felt hurl by what I snld " |