getting at you. I am in town to day, to speak this evening, and came
in early in the hope of catching you at your office.

For I owe it to you and to my own thought and feeling to tell you how
grateful I am for all your generous praise and support of me (no one
has described me more nearly as I would like myself to be than you
have); how I have admired you for the independence and unhesitating
courage and individuality of your course; and how far I was from
desiring that you should cease your support of me in the _Weekly_. You
will think me very stupid--but I did not think of that as the result
of my blunt answer to your question. I thought only of the means of
convincing people of the real independence of the _Weekly's_ position.
You will remember that that was what we discussed. And now that I have
unintentionally put you in a false and embarrassing position you heap
coals of fire on my head by continuing to give out interviews
favourable to my candidacy!

All that I can say is that you have proved yourself very big, and that
I wish I might have an early opportunity to tell you face to face how
I really feel about it all. With warm regard,

Cordially and faithfully, yours,
WOODROW WILSON.

For a while it seemed as if the old relations between the Colonel and the
New Jersey Governor would be resumed, but some unfriendly influence, bent
upon the Governor's undoing, thrust itself into the affair, and soon the
story of the Manhattan Club incident broke about the Princetonian's head
with a fury and bitterness that deeply distressed many of Mr. Wilson's
friends throughout the country. The immediate effect upon his candidacy