COMMENTS ON COLONEL WATTERSON’S PAPER
THE foregoing was written in the south of France to help while away a winter vacation. I was not willing to give it to the public without the “visé” of my surviving colleagues, Whitelaw Reid and Horace White, to each of whom I sent a copy. At first I thought of recasting my matter to meet their objections. But, on second thought, it seems best to “let the hide go with the tallow,” as it were, their comments not only illuminating my narrative, but throwing on it the side lights of their differing points of view. No one holds in higher respect than I the noble aims and great sacrifices made by the Liberal Republicans.
HENRY WATTERSON.