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Show GOV. WILSON Aijimi i Conversation .Between the Two Made Public by Governor Newark, N. j, D:c 25.-Cov-cltct (Woofimw Wilson not only reaffirm: his assertion that an emissary from .lames trruith. Jr.. inorrnc-J him before be-fore relctlori day that Mr. Smith i v.-nnld not be a candidate tor the sen-1 sen-1 ate, but declares th.it Sinita personally person-ally hail corroborated such a statement. state-ment. Dr. Wilso.i Is now in St. Louis aUentMng a meeting of the American . Home Kccmouiic association. Ili.i sta'.omat, signed Is printed today In tb Newark Irvcning News Mr. Smith dnie 1 be ever sent such an cmlss.iry to Dr. Wi!?on and rhal-I'ingod rhal-I'ingod the governor-elect to name tho man. l-i hi.; reply today Dr. Wilson declined to reveal the identity of hlj ' intonnHnt. Ho : ay.: I "I certainly would not have allowed 'ray name to go before the convention fnat nominated me, had not I thought that the man who trld me that Mr. Smith would nni be a csnd.'date for the senate, spoKe to me for Mr. "5nilth. I hH I every reason to thlnlc Jie. did. I did not name him, boeai-s-j .he Is a man whom I very highly esteem, nnd on wh.uu 1 do not care to bring the luortlf ie.inon of being drawn into r,nrh a p.ibll: matter. I am willing will-ing to go with Mr. Smith before th court of public opinion on the chargo of attempted trickery and Je?eit. "If the gentleman of whom I hnvo spoken did not speak for Mr. Smith, In what he told me, why did Mr. Smith corroborate what he had sild. He told me exactly the same thliv; when he came to my house a few ilnys after the election. He told me In the plainest terms that before th; election he had not desired to go to Washington, hn-I not ' felt espial to reeking or occuping ihe oifice, but that he w-as now (ruling Mron-ir and did desire it He was evidently referring re-ferring to something bv knew I h l i known. "Mr. Smith h.is a singularly distorted dis-torted recollection of that conversation. conversa-tion. I did speak as his frlf.nl. I I iclt very friendly toward him Indee 1, nr.d wish that I miclu have been permitted per-mitted to K-rve his real interest lu this final declslrn of hla public e.i-i-cr. I'i pointed out to him (he drep discredit dis-credit thDt would fall on htm; .'f he were himself to teek the sen.itorshi;i. Finding him utterly con'.ernptuous .'f the primary and tov.ards Mr. Marline; Mar-line; finding tb.u' he Insisted that the slit.'1 would be disgraced should Mr. Martine, l.itber than lie, represent repre-sent it in the senate. I trh'd to point out to him in all kindness the only course that J,iy op, en to him In Iho circumstances, 11 be would win tho respect of thovghtful men. "1 (old him that, feeling as he li I. the only honornbl course open tn hhn wQ:i to come out and say that ho was Dot himself a candidate- and wouM coopemto in the choice of any man whom general opinion might agree on as represent l.i g, not tperi.i! ig-tcrents. ig-tcrents. but th: opinion ami the character char-acter of the state. He told me that ' he did not know of any -oich man In the state who had any 'claim' upon the party comparable in hi;? own." |