Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
STRANGE DO|NGS
At OLD PRINCETON
is PRESIDENT WILSON BEING
cRooMED AS DEMocRATlc
LEADER?
ALumNi UGLY AND WILSON MAY
RETIRE AS COLLEGE CHEF.

ton-one that Doctor Woodrow Viii
son will not be reelected president at
the June meeting of the college trust
ees, another tnat, like Salmon Z.
Chase, Ea1aee tireeiey and Judge
Waiter o. Gresham, he is turning poi
itlclan ana ~ being gfoomed as a
whire house possibility President
WILSON, IS Just back from bermuda
and discovers that in his BRET abb
sence the controversy which was
VyIdly brought 10 pu0iic nodce by
the withdrawal OF William Cooper
Procters Offer OF gift OF 100000
has not been ended
In tact "a new aspect has been
given 20 chs controversy, due TO the
strong suspicion now prevailing thai
Princeton unn ersity is to be MADE
the stepping stone for the consum-
nation Oh political ambition. For We
now frequently hear graduates OF
Princeton and others ask this ques-
ton
Is it at present the purpose of
some OF those who are leaders of a
great political element in the United
States SO 10 focus the attention upon
President Wilson as to make it inev-
table that he be conspicuous in the
public eye as candidate Tor the
9cratic party?
1t is not Likely that what many
would regard as the termination of
the Princeton controversy, namely,
the retirement of President Wilson
from the presidency of the univer-
sity in June, VIII, instead of proving
to be the termination, result in wide
spread agitation in favor OF the noml-
nation for the presidency by the DEM
ocratic party of President Wilson,
and upon the sole platform that his
record shows that he stands fortn
stanch and true to the democratic
doctrine OF perfect equality before
the law and no favoritism to Or un-
due influence by the r.ch.
Education and Politics.
If this development should come,
and many who know him believe that
it is inevitable, then for the first
time in the history of American ed
vocational institutions one of them
will have been used with intent TO
secure political prominence and to
compass political ambitions
what than ORC tho fontc ond NJ ha ?
is the situation which justifies the
suspicion many entertain that the
friends of President Wilson hope, and
now almost expect, that he will be-
come conspicuous above others be-
fore the next national convention OF
the Democratic party as a candidate
for President?
Colonel George Harvey first sug-
gested the availability of President
Woodrow Wilson as candidate for
the presidency of the democracy.
After the defeat of Judge Parker in
1904 by Theodore Roosevelt, DR.. St
Clair McElway, in forecasting the ru-
ture OF the democratic party and the
emphatic suggestion as to the avail
ability of Woodrow Wilson for the
presidential nomination. A few days
later there came some letters in
which the intimation was made by
Dr. McElway that it was then too
early to begin an agitation and an
organization having for their purpose
the, nomination of Woodrow Wilson
for the presidency. But there began
to come from other parts of the coun
try intimation that many would with
high favor learn that real politics
was under way, having for its pur.
pose the nomination of Dr. Woodrow
Wilson. These various informal nom.
nations and warm words of approval
did appear to justify the suspicion
that already presidential politics rs
in progress which has in view the
nomination of DR.. Wilson.
The college controversy appears to
have been first created by the action
taken by DR.. Wilson, in which he
sought to suppress and confiscate the
students club at Princeton, and to
create quadrangle system in place
of the club life. There are no frater
mites at Princeton, but many clubs
In them student life centers. But
not all of the students are able tc
secure elevation to the clubs, anc
that has occasioned some irritation.
Or. Wilson's avowed purpose was
by abolishing the clubs and by de
veloping a quadrangle system, to give
every student an equal opportunit,
to join IN the social life of the uni
versity. The students were to be ap
portioned arbitrarily throughout the
quadrangle. There followed such ar
outburst of indignation and opposi
ton that Dr. Wilson was forced t
abandon the quadrangle plan. How
ever, this disturbance was compare
lively trivial; not until Mrs. Swami:
bequest of approximately $500, 900
which was to be utilized for the build
ing of graduate college. becam.
available, did the present controvers,
in its more dramatic and exciting
features begin. Former Presiden
Grover Cleveland and others of tn.
trustees who were greatly interested
in the graduate school We're of III,
opinion that this graduate schoo
should not be so completely inter
mingled and interfused With under
graduate university life as to intel
fere with the chief object for whicl
z graduate school was organized.