The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-08
PRES|DENf.ELECT
TO VISIT VIRGINIA
DURING DECEMBER
Accept Invitation of Univer~
sity Authorities to Cele-
brate Birthday
HE WILL ANNOUNCE
DATE IN DUE TIME
Puts Stop to Various Rumors'
About His Cabinet by
Issuing Statement
on Subject


PRINCETON, N. j.. Nov. THEIRS u
will be- no announcement with re-S
gard to President Elect wilson's cab 81
met until January LIST, at the eariiesks
and possibly not until March 4th. N
Until he has had his vacation the
rresident-elect viii not even consider
the cabinet, and any publication OF
its composition will be pure specu-#
iation. a
The governor made this clear early L
this evening in statement he issu04
as a result OF the speculative st0rie1
that have appeared in the newspa~za
pers under Princeton date lima
Those stories have annoyed the Cove
ernor. as he explained. anything efns#
anating from Princeton may he re-s
garded by the public as having soSA4@
authority, and he may thus be en5.sE
harressed in his final selection OF = I
cabinet The president-eiect Issued \
this statement.
Governor Wilson this afternoo0
referred to the speeulations whfcn$
are cropping up with regard to The
makeup Of his cabinet and said. @
Open Mind on Cabinet.
Such speculations are perfecffD
fr1itfess. fr1eaYr to' k1ssiys Tss1 szss00si
entirely open with regard to appoints
ments OF the first consequence unlMa
u final announcement is possible. -
will be perfectly useless to resort t0Sss
me for confederation Of any rep0fs
because / will have absolutely no MlE~a8
nouneement rs make. No anHuunce.y5
ment will have the least authoritySa
which Is not made over my signatufes
These are rn3ffers which must be 0AS#
termined by very deliberate counmokss
and not by gossip.
The governor said also the sfate-@
ment that he would go TO Barmu0a
for his vacation was without as5-sg
thority. The governor said on tn
subject. n esssess
Please say for me that when tnoss
runor WIS referred to, replied fHaS
the statement had been made entirely
without my authority, and that FOR
the very reason that I was goin9
away to rest, / would have no ans
houncement of plans to make"
Correspondence is Great.
The president ELECT devoted tho
day to his correspondence. He II
answering all kilograms personally by "
letters. There are thousands of these
cohgratuiatory kilograms and tho
work involved in replying to them ~
enormous. In consequence the gov-S
ernor did not leave his house to-
day. The influx Of kilograms has 1ees
up to some extent. The local teie-S
graph office, which ordinarily e1m~a
J ploys three operators, has had eiGh~S
team expert men at work since eiac~a
ton night. bat today four of then1%
were transferred To another point.
The governor had only a few VI
itors. They included q Delegations
from the University of Virginia, conf
sisting Of President Edwin A. AlderN'
man, Dean Richard Dabney and Coloss
mel Armistead Gordon. and PeytOAa
Cochran cf Staunton. Va. where TIM
president-elect was born. These gGA@2
tlArnen asked Governor Wilson to vtnfNi
stanton as soon as possible and haNNe
a sort of birthday jubilee. The pfeqt&
dent-eiect viii celebrate his fifty -sixtA
birthday on December 2Sth. He aH@3
cepted the invitation of the gentlame~4|
from Virginia, and promised to naxn~
the date later. M
VIII Come to Virginia.
1T Will probably be In the iattal
part Of December" he said toniGM4@
sBut not necessarily on my birthdA@%
They did not propose date, ana
told them I would name II later.
While the president-eie will NJ
consider his cabinet for some time. 14
will probably give some attention on
an early date to legislation proposes
for the State of New Jersey At t5~6
session which opens In January. MALL
a Democratic senate and assemhN&
something he has not had since hA
election, 1t viii be possible to car1l
out the original program OF refokM
upon which Governor Wilson WM1
elected In the first year OF his ae
minlstration the governor was hn1]
dicapped by having a Republican na|
ate He appealed to the people
the campaign of 1911 TO give him
complete Democrats Legislature,
instead they made the assembly
publican as well as the senate.
Legislature thereafter blocked eNa1
effort at reform. sassE
VIII Call Upon Leaders.
The State platform OF the oe&1
paign Just closed presents an exe1
sive program he said today.
shall consult with the leaders III
State and then speak for them ~ N
as for myself
The governor Is quite confident
he will be able to make a model
of New Jersey before he assur1ea
Office of president OF the United &ta
We shall have the force *
entire nation behind U.S. he sald
Among the kilograms reccive@
the governor today was this NJ
one as5s
Hearty congratulations: but
Gods sake get an autom0hiiN
can't run more than trn
hour
.s5ss