Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — WILSON WRITES TO TAMMANY [ARTICLE]

WILSON WRITES TO TAMMANY

Governor Sends Letter of Regret at Not Being Able to Attend Celebration. New York, July s.—At the Tammany Hall Independence day exercises a letter was read from Gov. Woodrow Wilson acknowledging the receipt of an invitation to be present. The governor wrote: “I greatly regret that engagements elsewhere bind me for that date.” He continued; “I think it ffiust be a matter of congratulation on the part of all lovers of America that the society of Tammany should through so many years have maintained its celebration of the anniversary which is crowded with so many memories of the inspiriting kind not only for the people of the United States, but for the people of the world. It is upon hearths of this kind that the flame of liberty is kept burning.”