Gen. Green Charges Judson With Trying To Ruin Him

Gen. Fred W. Green, of Ypsilanti, comes back at Judson in the following signed statement which is the hottest contribution to the controversy up to date:

"There will never be recorded in Michigan a more damnable attempt to ruin a man than the effort Judson is now making in rny case. I had determined not to answer his false and ludicrous talk of ingratitude. He ought to be everlastingly grateful to us all for leaving him and his disreputable methods as long as we have. He has been borne up by myself and others when every interest, party as well as public, demanded his overthrow. He has held office continuously for years and has grown rich through his manipulations.

"He has had no regard for the interests of any man but himself, and has been cold and heartless beyond all description.

"His attacks yesterday were so dastardly and false as to demand a statement from me. He telephoned me Wednesday evening in Toledo and said that the whole matter had been settled, and that he wished me to make no statement until I saw him. On my return that evening he met me at the depot in Ann Arbor and begged for an interview, which we had.

"He offered me the position of United States district attorney, showing a telegram signed R. A. Alger, which also said Wedemeyer could not be appointed, and that the appointee would be whomsoever Judson might name. When this bait failed, he offered me $2,000 if I would turn my back on my honest convictions and follow his dictatorship. This I refused to do.

"He followed me to Detroit the next morning, and persistently renewed this offer. Because I refused to be bought he has in his desperation gone to the limit of mendacity and treachery in his effort to ruin me.

"I do not know whether he has placed any attachment upon my property. If he has, it is all the stronger proof of his contemptible methods. I have today sent in my business partner to Ann Arbor with $500 with which to pay him what he claims I owe him.

"Judson is politically dead, in spite of all his eftorts to revive himself by injections of newspaper elixir, which has so often acted as a stimulant in the past. But it is a matter of indifference to me that he is in the hands of the political undertakers. If he were politically alive, instead of politically dead, I should still be against him, in order to have my self-respect, for I intend to spend my life in this state and am determined that my associations shall be met as to command the confidence of the people of Michigan. I hope by years of devotion to the best interest of the republican party and of the public generally to atone for the sin of association with Judsonism."

William Judson was seen by the Argus just before noon. He produced a roll of bilis which he said was the $500 just paid him by Green's clerk. The attachment proceedings were dissolved.

"Do you know where he got it?" was asked.

The reply was the characteristic Judson wink. "I can tell you later," he said, "when the time comes I can tell you where lie got $1,000 on January 18."

When asked about the Green letter published above, the oil inspector said: "Green is a ---- ---- liar. I never got any telegram from Alger about the district attorneyship. I never showed what I didn't have. I never said I had one. I didn't offer to give him $2,000. He asked me to loan him $1,800 and I refused to do it."

Gen. Green, when seen by the Argus in Ypsilanti, earnestly asserted the truth of his statements. He said Judson also showed the telegram from Alger to Prosecuting Attorney Tuttle, of Ingham county, who was on the train.