The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
WOODROW WILSON PALAvERS
THE PRESIDENT.

1t isn't pleasant sight to see col
lege professor playing snob to any man,
no matter who he may be. But Pro-
fessor Woodrow Wilson has been doing
this to Mr.. Cleveland. Professor Will
3on is a member of the Princeton uni
versity faculty, and Mr.. Cleveland,
when he retires to private life, will
settle in Princeton. Professor Wilson
may see much of him, doubtless de-
sires TO see much of him; hence the
snobbery of the professor.
The Princeton professor is giving a
series of lectures at Johns Hopkins
university. The first of the series was
delivered last week, and was on "Ad-
ministration.' 1t was a fairly good lee
ture generally, but it was in no sense
great; in some respects it was in ex-
ceedingly bad taste. no illustrate his
ideas of proper and improper admins
tration, he compared the administra-
ton Of General Harrison with that of
Mr.. Cleveland. The account of this
comparison is taken from the Baltimore
Sun, and is as follows:
Even in our own country we can see
the differences in the methods of exc
cution according to the character of
the man in power
When President Harrison was in the
White House he acted we'll, but when
were you aware that Harrison and
not the Republican leader was in the
chair, except in his appointment of the
judiciary? He was the unobserved or
gan of the Republican party.
But in the case of Mr.. Cleveland
fIaf Of hi
own choice, and the air of Washington
is full of the cry that Cleveland is
trying to run" the government. This
shows how president. a portion of the
administration, can frame the policy
of the government, and how the char
acter of administrators may differ from
the man who leads his party to the
man who informs men what he will
and will not ACCEPT.
At one time when the senate was
discussing the silver repeal bill d re-
port spread around that President
Cleveland, rather than sacrifice the
whole, would agree TO a compromise.
They believed it. / cannot understand
why. There was certainly no prece-
dent in his career to indicate COM
promise, but they went to him and
asked him. His answer is on record.
Gentlemen" he said, Il say it with
reverence, but if you bring me any
thing but an absolute repeal, by God
I'll veto it,
Thus we may see how the mere per-
son, was about to say the mere
physical makeup of the president, af-
fects administration.
This may all be true but true or not,
it would be difficult to find a more
humiliating exhibition of snobbery.
Professor Wilson should know far
better than the ordinary man that
comparisons are odious. For his COM
parison he takes the president of the
United States and the only living ex-
president. Aside from the shocking
bad taste exhibited by him he justly |
brings upon himself the charge of pa
lavering the president who is shortly !
to become his fellow townsman. If Mr.. |
Cleveland is anything like the man
Professor Wilson pictured him to the !
Johns Hopkins students, Mr.. Cleveland |
will have nothing but the profoundest |
of contempt for Professor Wilson. If |
he desired q strong contrast for pur
poses of illustration, the professor
could have found it in the lives and /
administrations of dead presidents. All |
his associates at Princeton should blush
for him, for never before was there
such an exhibition. by a college pro-
fessor. of fawning at the feet of power.
May there never be again.