Gen. Alger Is With Judson

Gen. Alger Is With Judson

Stands Firmly With Him in the Fight

Some More Interviews

Gen. Green and Oil Inspector Judson Give Them Out and They Keep Up a Torrid Atmosphere

The Glazier-Wedemeyer, Green controversy with Judson has four storm centers--Ann Arbor, Detroit, Lansing and Washington. Gen. Green's claim that Judson showed a telegram from Alger giving Judson the disposal of the U.S. district attorneyship and Mr. Judson's denial has excited much attention. The Washington end of the news is thus told by the Free Press Washington correspondent:

"I cannot believe," said Senator Alger Saturday night, "that Judson offered the district attorneyship to Gen. Green, for he could not have done so. Neither could he have shown him a telegram from me giving him the refusal of the position, for not only have I never telegraphed to him, but the matter has never been talked about between us.

"Judson is my friend and I wrote him this morning, but it was before I heard of the telegram that is being talked about, and I know nothing at all about it."

Senator Alger has a very soft spot for Judson and has been impressed with his ability as a politician. He does not believe that Judson has shown any such telegram and will undoubtedly stand by him, as he said today that he believed in looking after one's friends in preference to one's enemies.

Fitzgibbon telegraphs a lengthy interview with Alger, which makes some interesting revelations. To Mr. Fitzgibbon, Gen. Alger said:

"I have never contemplated asking that a change be made in the office of collector of port at Detroit, in the office of district attorney, or in any other office where the term is fixed by law and where the men now filling these officers were reappointed after Mr. McKinley's re-election. The so-called slate printed several weeks ago was made without my knowledge. I knew nothing of it until I read it in a newspaper. I do not know who presumed to make the slate. It certainly was not made by any person who could speak knowingly of my affairs.

"Mr. Judson has never told me that he would like a federal appointment, and I have had no thought of trying to get one for him for the very good reason that at the close of the campaign last fall he came to me voluntarily and said that he did not want an office for himself nor did he want any other kind of reward. He has not mentioned the subject to me since.

"Mr. Wedemeyer at no time even intimated to me that he would like to be appointed district attorney. The first and only connection I have seen of his name and the position of district attorney was in the unauthorized slate I refer to. Late last fall, however, Judson spoke to me about the good work Wedemeyer did, and suggested that the appointment as consul to some German city would be acceptable to him. Wedemeyer, he said, desired to spend a few years in Germany to pursue some special studies. Upon inquiry I learned there was no suitable post in Germany vacant. The matter was then dropped.

"I am surprised that Wedemeyer should turn on Judson, who has done so much for him politically. It was, as I understand, Judson who urged that he be made chairman at the late convention at Detroit, which afforded him the opportunity to make the good speech he did.

"I am wholly at a loss to account for the newspaper reports of a break between Judson and Wedemeyer. When I was in Detroit during the state convention, they seemed to be friends as they always had been. I have had no communication with either of them since. Nothing arose that seemed to call for correspondence. I even now know nothing about their differences except what I have read in the papers. Today, though, I wrote some letters to Michigan for an explanation of their trouble.

"Neither the collector of customs nor the district attorney at Detroit could be removed until 1906, unless serious charges of some kind were proven against them. I know of no charges that could be brought against them. I have had no thoughts of trying to disturb them, and nobody has asked me to do it. They are good republicans, and my desire is for harmony in the party."

Gen. Green Talks.

Gen. Green has supplemented his signed statement with the following interview in Saturday night's Journal:

"Judson took me to a room in the American hotel in Ann Arbor and handed me that telegram. I had it in my hand and read it. It was dated Washington and was signed R. A. Alger.

"I thought afterward that the writing looked a little peculiar, but it did not occur to me at the time that it was possibly a fake. I am confident Judson showed the same dispatch to others. 

"Mr. Wedemeyer and myself decided to separate from Judson long ago, at the earliest opportunity," continued Gen. Green, at the Wayne hotel.

"We wanted to do it at a time when it would not in any way interfere with the candidacy of any of our friends for office, so we held on until after the recent state convention, so as not to make any trouble for Judge Kinne. Judson could not have gone to that convention except by consent of Judge Kinne. The convention would never have put Judson on the delegation. A committee was appointed to name the delegates after a conference with Judge Kinne, and it was at his request that Judson went on. Judge Kinne never takes sides in Washtenaw county politics and desires to be perfectly fair to everyone, and for that reason had Judson named. 

"Judson has grown rich out of politics. Judson never does anything in politics unless there are funds to handle. When he begins to get active, it is because there has been some money put up, and he has the spending of it.

"I admit that I have stood by Judson and worked with him and for him. I am ashamed of it. I hope by separating from him now, confessing my fault and leading a better life, to live down the sin and disgrace that attaches to having belonged to the Judson faction in Washtenaw. I have paid him all the money I owed him, and would long ago if had wanted it. I believe Judson must have been drunk yesterday from the things he said about me. He certainly was not in his right mind; for it is hard to believe any sane man to be such an unconscionable liar. The story about my trying to borrow money of him to go away is all rot."

Concerning the position that Senator Glazier is taking in the fight Green refuses to say a word. "Mr. Glazier will speak for himself, whenever he feels that the time is ripe," was all he would say.

The News of Saturday contained a Saginaw dispatch of a plan fathered by Senator Doherty to replace Judson as oil inspector with Benjamin, of Saginaw. This and Gen. Green's interview, he denies in the following statement:

"Green says that I showed him and ex-Prosecuting Attorney Tuttle, of Ingham, a telegram from Gen. Alger about the United State district attorneyship. Well, I want to say this much. If any man will go to Mr. Tuttle and if Mr. Tuttle will say that I showed him any such telegram I will pay the fellow's far for a trip to Europe and return and I will agree to resign my office as state oil inspector, leave Michigan, go to Canada and never come back. That might seem an easy proposition, but I tell you there never was any such telegram and so I could not have shown it. It is simply a lie from Green. Green, Tuttle and myself were on the car going to Detroit and what I did show them was this."

At that Mr. Judson handed the reported a telegram from the state game warden which read as follows:

"Hon. William Judson, Ann Arbor, Mich.:

"Can you come to Lansing for conference. General talk here is that Wedemeyer has made the greatest mistake of his life.

(Signed) "C. H. Chapman."

"I noticed in the News," continued Mr. Judson, "that Senator Doherty and other senators had a conference in which it was agreed that I was to lose my job. I do not believe one word of it. Senator Doherty is one of my best friends and 90 percent if the senators in Michigan is a friend of mine. Some of them may have differed with me about men and measures, but I consider that they were just as honest in their beliefs as I was in mine and we are still friends. Throughout this whole thing Railroad Commissioner Atwood has been my warmest friend and I consider his word as good as a government bond."

Among the many letters Mr. Judson has received expressing loyalty to him is one from A. J. Waters, of Manchester, which particularly pleases him. In part it reads: "We all know that if you did not make Wedemeyer, you discovered him, but we believe that you are his creator and the creature should not be greater than its creator."

Gen. Green, when called upon by the Argus today refused to be interviewed. He said: "I have nothing more to say at present." The words "at present" were brought out with considerable emphasis.

It is but fair to Gen. Green to state that he did not say that the telegram he claims Mr. Judson showed him purporting to come from Gen. Alger was shown to Tuttle. What he said was that after having shown the telegram to him, Judson was seated with Tuttle and showed Tuttle a telegram Green was across the car and caught the word Wedemeyer in the telegram shown Tuttle.

Of course Tuttle cannot be reached as he sailed from New York with his bride on Saturday evening and will make a four or five months tour of Europe.

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