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The True Story Of Woodrou) Wilson By DAVID LAWHEXCE <Cc?yrt?M 1924 by tli? C't'W H. Oar a a la Ihi U'iM Itilik Canada. Sauth A?rrka. W?< Id publication n?Mi rtwn?4 k| Carrtnt Ni*i Faataraa. lac.) Chapter XIII Wilson and Party Platforms "Wood row Wilson did not feel bound by party platform in the making of which he had no part. Certain principles of policy appeal to hiip as worthy of emphasis but, knowing the hasty manner in which platforms were drafted and per functorily adopted, he construed each document to be really a series erf suggestions and not a program of action. In his formal speech ac I cepting the nomination in 1912, he revealed that Interpretation; but its true significance did not become apparent until Mr. Wilson as Pres ident developed his leglflative pro grams. He wrote practically all of the 1916 platform himself and felt privileged to do so as leader of the Democratic party. Two- planks on the 1912 platform Mr. Wilson never mentioned during that campaign. One wus that which pledged the party to a con stitutional amendment restricting a President of the United States to a single, term and the other that which upheld the action of the Dem ocrats in enacting a law exempting American vessels from payment of Panama Canal tolls. Mr. Wilson believed that the discussion of the one term plunk was none of his af- ; fair because if the party chose it could repeal that plank in a subse quent convention ? and It was only Tilndnil? upon"" party In convention' assembli-d and not upon individuals who inevitably would be compelled to accept the party's decision. The Democratic party ? not Woodrow Wilson ? reversed itself in 1916 by nominating for a second term the, man who in the Judgment of the delegates had made a worthy record in a single term. Similarly Mr. j Wilson held that the 1912 plank' relating to Panama Canal tolls was J merely and off-hand endorsement of the action of the Democrat! in Con-; gress and that If the Democrats on Capitol Hill In their wisdom, choose! to reverse themselves, the party; would be compelled to approve that reversal. Throughout the campaign Mr. i Wilson felt a certain admiration for) many of the planks In the Hull Moose platform. After he was elected he did not fall to seek the; support of many of those who had J voted the Bull Moose ticket by striv-] ing to meet the wishes of the pro gressive leaders, men and women, who had supported the third party. ! Mr. Wilson's praise for the third] party platform was ungrudging. I The author and several other news-! paper men were seated with Gov- 1 ernor Wilson on a train going to J New York two days before the elec-i tlon In 1912 when someone in the group, realizing that no one of us would be home on election day, raised the indiscreet question of how each one would vote If he had the opportunity . Fortunutely, another wisely suggested that the vote be taken on the question of platforms rather than Individuals and. when, the author stated that he would; vote neither the Republican nor the Democratic ticket in 1912, but the Bull Moose ticket because of its platform. Mr. Wilson with a twinkle ih his eye admitted there was a great deal to be said in favor of that view-point. IlunninK throughout Mr. Wilson's political careers' is n streak of In dependence which did not bind him to the Democratic party as a life long propcrsltlon. It is not diffi cult to conceive of him as the can-1 didate of some party other than the Democratic. He sensed tho divis ion of groups In American politics along the lines of conservatives and radicals, react ionarles and progress ives. standpatters and liberals. Parties, In Mr. Wilson's judgment, depended entirely for their appeal upon the leadership given them. Just as many sincere Republicans finally became persuaded that they could accomplish more Inside of the Republican- party toward mak ing It progressive than outride, so did Mr. Wilson become convinced that he could rid the Democratic party of some of Its old fashioned conservatism and make It tho in strumentality of progresslvlvism and liberalism. Although Mr. Wilson wn? an ex cellent speaker, eloquent and Ingen ious in his ability to make Im promptu addresses. he really did not enjoy stump speaking or back platform talks. Hifl audlenceH were never aware of that fact.' Every outdoor meeting was an ordeal for him. Nor did he like to prepare speeches In advance, prefer ring to map out addressea with a few notei ahead of time and trust ing to hi? power of concentration In developing a theme In original fashion as he spoke. This meant that his best speeches were made when he had an attentive audience or when he spoke In a small hall where quiet could be assured. The speeches sounded well and read well. Ho never edited them after delivery. Newspaper men who traveled with him were Impressed again and again by hlQ versatility In handling from day to day the *ame topic in a different way. If his speeches were to be examined and compared It would be found that while he employed the same argu ment hp never used the same phrase ology. Reporters never knew what * The Apothecary Shop PHONIC 400 A Good Drug Store i he was going to say ? they found themselves listening always for the! ' unexpected. Sometimes the reporters used to | feel that he was conscious of their I presence and that he felt the necess- 1 iyt of making every speech differ ent so that he would not seem to I them to be repeating. Each cam paign held the interest of those who] were reporting it and in this respect j Mr. Wilson's publicity sense, which | was none too good us a whole, was especially effective. Election night, 1912, was about as uninteresting and. undraniatic an occasion as it was important to the | man who was the chief figure In it. Possibly it was that Mr. Wilson felt confident of the result and pors slbly it was Mr. Wilson's character istic ability to disguise his true feel ings. But were it not for the student body of Princeton Univer j slty who came marching down to the little cottage on Cleveland Lane, a stone's throw from the hcruse where Grover Cleveland lived and died, the incident migh have passed Into his tory without even a cheer of en thusiasm or a note of exultation of any kind. To the modest little cottage on , Cleveland Lane, came the torch light procession, with fire and drum, singing, yelling, and giving to the whole atmosphere more of the ap pearance^ of an athletic victory than a- political celebration. Students of Princeton will parade anyhow on rhe?* lightest prorontt i<m ? and? Hte fact that a graduate had been elect ed President at the United States, gave them a thrilling excuse. Down th?> same streets students had tripped In the days when Gen eral Washington received the thanks of the Continental Congress meet ing at Nassau Hall after the Revo-, lution. It was In the same envi ronment that James Madison, another President of the United | States, had lived. More recently. ? only five years before election night 1912 ? the students had marched to the home of Grover Cleveland to greet hiiu on the occa sion of his seventieth birthday. The last President of the United States elected on rhe Democratic tickr-t and the first Democrat to be elected' slhoe then ? both had been' a vital part of Princeton. Only a few persons were admitted to. the Wilson cottage, mostly xiews paper men. wliCLJiad accompanied the? Governor during his presidential campaign. Except for the ticking of a telegraph instrument in the library one would have believed It ' was a social evening in the Wilson home. % Serenaded by the students, Wood row Wilson made his first speech that night as the elected chief executive of the American peo ple. It was an impromptu ad dress .but it paralleled the words of his second inauguration address more than four years later. He said then in 1912 what he said in 1916 ? he did not feel the thrill of triumph but a sense only of sojemn responsibility. / Day by day we had our confer ences with the President elect. His nnswers to our questions were gen? eral ? he was feeling his way. His first impulse was to get away from it all and think alone. This ten dency, not unlike that of the artisi ! whcv seek* solitude or the literary genius who locks himself in his study for uninterrupted thought, [ was noticeable on later occasions i when Mr. Wilson was face to face with a crisis. When the Lusltania was sunk, he shut himself off imme-i dlately from the hue and cry of war and detached himself from the fight ing passion in the very atmosphere.1; Alone on the front seat erf his auto- 1 mobile into the woods he fled to get a proper perspective on what had oc curred. Off to Bermuda, presumably on a vacution, went the President elect as soon as elected, but the real par pone of the Journey was to find a quiet place In which to think out a course of act low. On the steamer enroute to Bermuda, and in the life of the Wilson household during the month's sojourn in the beautiful Paget section of Bermuda, the Wil sons revealed themselves as truly democratic. Thex were innocently unaware of the burdens of official dom. All the correspondents who made the daily trip to the Wilson home found a delightful family circle, ? in fact one of the embarrassments from the newspaper man's view point was the fact that Mr. Wilson accepted the correspondents as so cial visitors then rather than as busi ness callers. Many a visifwhich was begun with the avowed object of get ting news from the President-elect ; turned out in vain because the charm | and attractiveness of the drawing room where Mr. Wilson, his wife and ! daughters participated In a discus sion of everything except news. This I effectively prevented the scribes ; from conducting their usual cross 1 examination. There is no doubt that Mrs. Wil son won the friendship of every one of the correspondents. On more than one occasion she smoothed i cut a difference between the news paper men and her husband. She was their friend throughout and sympathized with them in the em harassing duty of pursuing a Presi dent-elect while he was trying to get a needed rest. (The next chapter tells why Mr. Wilson chose Bryan as Secretary of State ? The beginnings of currency legislation.) ford -production is ? ! BELOW EXPECTATIONS Detroit. March 8. ? March produc tion of the Ford Motor Company! probably will be somewhat short ofi the figure previously- indicated,' Clogged roads in the country dis- ! trictH have held back retail sales and i production has not been expaned asj planned, in order to give the sales) department a chance to catch up. j Therefore the Ford Company will j not reach for some time its widely heralded goal of 10,000 cars a day. j The March output is expected to be; about 1S5.000 units. On the other: hand, the companies manufacturing the Paige, Hudson and Chevrolet cars have heavier schedules for March than In February. Fear of further price increases continues to be the most potent sales stimulant for some cars. FiRures collected there are 364. BN men employed in j 3.000 Detroit factories. The aver-! 'age wage to exactly $5 a day. In-' 'eluding office workers and clerks It: 'is estimated that the average week-' ly payroll in Detroit is about (15.000.0U0, nearly twice as large ai ' in th?* post war boom days. SHELVES 8 WEPT (l?A\ OF WIN TEH MERCHANDISE Chicago, March 8. ? The big de pa rtment stores and even the small! retailers here expect to start their, spring selling campaigns this year with winter goods and specialties cleared off their shelves. Sales i .the past winter have been from 10' i to 40 per cent heavier In all lines, than evep before, according to an : estimate made here today. An in- ! formal survey just completed shows > a large increase in the number of j mercantile and specialties stores in Chicago. Most of the latter are, stores dealing exclusively radio j equipment. A new recqrd high j price for real estate in the heart of J the retail shopping district has been ( established in the sale of property' with a sixty foot frontage on State : J street at $5,666 a front foot. We Arc Headquarters For Lambertville / and Ball Brand RUBBER BOOTS Ornamental T rees And Shrubs Evergreens. Hoses, J-rult Trees and ' Berry Bushes; Grape Vines, Budded Pecans; Privett H?idge and Peren- : nlals. 1 We specialize in landscape garden- , ing. Visitors to our Nurseries are al- ] ways welcome. Write or phone for price-list. SAPOS NURSERIES ? Inc. ? 80-3 CHESTEKFIKV.D DLV'D Dial 41489 Norfolk. Vs | | Capital Stock $250,000 V Member Federal Reserve HERTFORD COLOMBIA ELIZABETH CITY *i* Dr. A. L. Pendleton, Pres. 3eo. It. Li?.tle, Cashier. X jurney I'. Hood, Vlce-Pres. R. C. Abbott, Vlce-Pres. | CAROLINA BANKING & TRUST COMPANY | FOR HIGHEST MARKET PRICES f Ship COTTON To ! WINBQRNE&C6. II NORFOLK, VIRGINIA ? .. j They pay drafts for 90 per cent on cotton to lie J sold on arrival and 75 per cent if to l>e stored. f ? Service ? Courtesy ? Weight ? 1 What You Want! When You Want It! Where You Want It! i JUST PHONE 16 OR 716 r COAL ICE BBICQUETS, CERTIFIED COAL, l?OCAHONTAS EGC, STOVE AND 1STJT, POCAHONTAS HUN OF THE MINE, KANAWHA SPLINT PI NNA. ANTHAC.ITE Ttf Stx-Cy undmr Touring Buick Character Makes Buick Value Buick value is something more than appears on the surface. It is more than the excellence and beauty of Buick design ? more than the' greater riding comfort, power and safety that Buick provides. Buick's value comes from the sum total of all those Buick qualities and traditions which together make up Buick character. A Buick owner fully appreciates Buick character. He knows the depcndatyle, satisfying and trcuble-free transportation which Buick gives, however long or however far a Buick owner may elect to drive his car. E-M-15-NF Tidewater-Buick Co. When fcct^er automobile? are boilr, Buiclc will build them. Hie Nearest Place. The most conveni ent Place, The Best Pl-ce ? To p:? for Gas, OiJ, Tires anil most ev erythinfj for the car Central Filling Station (Jorner ltoail and Matthews Sis. ( H. L. TllUEBLOOD. L. W. TRUEBLOOD i * THE Auction Store Is Now Located on Poindextei1 Street in tlie Building formerly occupied l?v W. S. White & Co. > ANNOUN CEMENT Since closing out our Feed and Seed business at our store on Poindexter St., -we moved to 410 Matthews St., back of D. M. Jones Hardware Co., where we arc con tinuing the Electric Supply business. We are making a special reduced price on our Lighting Fixtures to move the stock to make room for other goods to arrive soon. We expect to carry a full line of all things Eleqf trical to supply the needs of the public. If we do not have it, we will get it for you. If it's wiring your house we use the best of material and workmanship is guaranteed. W. S. WHITE & CO. Call Phoiip 61. r 410 Kant Matthew* St. KEEPING STEP T Mi ll And thl* Arm olway* abreast of the time*. When more modern future* and facilities are nece??ary they are added. We eater to the requirement* of our patron*. Our recent addition conal*t? of ? large Dry Cleaning Me chln?; another late*t model 8anltary Steam Pree?er, an Elet trlc Rotary Extracter, ani a drying room, which *lvea u? the beat equipped cleaning eatabllahment In th? city, plus twelT* year* of experience.
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