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"KOW THE WALL STREET DYNAMITE AGAINST
WOODROW WILSON IS PASSED AtONG
By Gilson Gardner.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 5. I
want to offer some personal testi
mony on the subject of this Wall
et dynamite conspiracy against
jWoodrow Wilson.
s On Saturday, Jan. 27, former
jSenator Pettigrew of North Da
kota entered my office and offered
me "a story" on Woodrow Wil
son." I was interested and said I
would like to look it over. The
-ex-Senator produced a manm
script.
It proved to be a long, type
written document in the form of
ji letter addressed to Senator Pet
tigrew by George Fred Williams
of Massachusetts. The writer
had gone through Woodrow Wil
son's "History 6f the United
States" with a finetooth comb for
"any sentences, paragraphs or sen
timents which might be the sub
ject of political offense to any per
son or class of persons.
What Wilson said about Gro
ver Cleveland ; what he said about
pending troops to Chicago; his
allusions to organized labor and
to the rliaway strike of 1894: im
migration and undesirable classes
of immigrants in fact every
thing which by any possibility
might be twisted or perverted to
arouse a prejudice or invoke criti
cism. The name of Senator Pet
tigrew, to whom the letter -"had
"been originally addressed, was re
moved by clipping the top from
fhe first sheet
''We want to get publicity for
this," said Mr. Pettigrew; "we
want to publish it as widely as
possible. We want to give it to
the Hearst newspapers and we
would like to have it used if pos
sible by the press associations."
On the following day I noticed
that Hearst's paper used the ex
tract which referred to Italian
immigration. Hearst had inter
viewed prominent Italians, who
were "outraged" by Gov Wil
son's attack on Italian-American
citizens.
The next day Hearst used
something which might be of
fensive to another race of immi
grants, and he had interviewed
some more "outraged" citizens.
The third day he devoted to re
producing what Gov. Wilson said
about the Chinese, and discovered
that the people on the coast and
elsewhere were "outraged" by the
governor's description of the Chi
nese as "industrious and decent."
And so it has gone on. Hearst
evidently accepted the Wall-st
dynamite and has been touching
it off, stick at a time, in his pa
pers. The connection of Wall-st
with the dynamite in this instance
is to be found in the fact that Pet
tigrew, after he left the United
States senate, became the lieuten
ant of James J. Hill, the railroad
magnet in Wall-st.
Pettigrew has not been active
at least not in the open in pol-
itics since he gave up his resi
dence in the west and formed his
Wall-st connections. This entry
of Pettigrew into politics is much'