The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-08
Would Exploit Princeton Uni
Verslty to Advance His Per-
SOnaI Ambition
PROCTOR GIFT ROW.
AIumnus Tells How the Ex-
President Tried to d.
vert Large Sum.

Newark, Nov. THAT the alumni of
Princeton university do not take kind
ly to DIR. Wilson's candidacy for gov
ernor is indicated in various ways.
Most of them have refused to contrib
ute to his campaign fund, and some
OF these have not hesitated to tell
why. A prominent lawyer of New
York city, an alumnus of Princeton,
who takes an unusually lively interest
In the university's affairs, said yester-
day:
Referring to the statement publish
ed In the Trenton Times of Oct. 81,
reading as follows: In the dispute
over Princeton's graduate school plans.
President Wilson showed that he not
only had views Of his own, but the
ability to enforce them against the
VIII of a majority of the trustees, and
the threatened loss of the Proctor
$4,000 did not deter him. This is
an absolute misstatement of fact.
If 1t were true, Woodrow Wilson
should be defeated for governor. The
people of the state of New Jersey
would not stand one minute for a gov
ernor who attempted to disregard the
will of a majority.
woodrow Wilson did have views of
his own. These views were to use
princeton university for his personal
political advancement regardless of in
jury to the university of which he was
president
HE did not enforce his will against
the majority of the board of trustees
OF Princeton university because he
was obliged to accept the Proctor gift
ON exactly the same terms upon which
1t was first offered-the same terms
upon which he originally tried to Gre
ate some principle for his own person
al exploitation at the expense of New
Jerseys great university.
woodrow Wilson's duplicity is well
exhibited and proved in the statement
of Rev. John Dewitt, D. D.. LII. d..
professor of church history in the
Princeton theological seminary and
trustee of Princeton university, in his
letter to the editor of the New York
Evening Post, dated Princeton. March
10, 1910, wherein he says:
my disagreement with DR.. Wilson
relates solely to Mr.. Proctor's second
proposal, which was substituted for
the hrst-to the proposal which, only
three weeks before it was made. DR..
wilson himself not only suggested but
by argument commended to Mr.. Proc
tor. My disagreement relates in par-
ucular to the speech made by DR. VIII
son to the trustees on the 18th of last
January-a speech in which he urged
the board to reject the very offer of
Mr.. Proctor which he himself had
originated and suggested.
princeton, nOnpartisan institution.
has been used by DIR. Wilson in a most
outrageous manner for his own pur-
poses. The state Of New Jersey. If
he is elected governor, will also he
used for his attempted further ad-
vancement to what Dr. Wilson seems
to have appropriated to himself, the
nations SERVICE as If Princeton and
New Jerseys history did not show
that they had from the very beginning
always been for the nations service
long before Woodrow Wilson was even
dreamed of.
"The people of New Jersey should
defeat the man who is so filed with
his own Importance and imagined d.
vine inspiration that he wiIlfully used
New Jerseys great nonpartisan uni
versity for his own political advance
ment by the use of questionable meth
DDS In his administration as its presi-
dent.
I'VE hear great deal about Wilson's
ignorance as to whom he is indebted
for his nomination for governor on the
Democratic ticket 1t is well known
fact that Smith, Nugent & Co. told
Wilson last spring that he could not
have the nomination unless the Prince
ton controversy was settled. Smith.
Nugent & Co. were more careful TO
safeguard the interests of Princeton
than President Wilson had shown any
inclination to do from the time Colonel
George Harvey first suggested him for
the presidency of the United States.
He could not fool the majority of
the Princeton alumni or the trustees
of Princeton university, and he cannot
fool the majority of the honest and in
telltgent voters of the state of New
Jersey"