The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Speculations Fruitless

Such speculations are perfectly fruitless. I mean to keep my mind en- tierly open with regard to appointments of the first consequence until a final announcement Is possible. It will be perfectly useless 10 resort to mo for corroboration of any report because I shall have absolutely nothing to am nounce. No announcement will have the least authority that is not made over my own signature. These are mat ters must be determined by very delib, ,e counsel and not by gossip" 1 There is every reason to believe that Woodrow Wilson both as presidential nominee and President-elect has not only not discussed the framing of D cnbinet wirh anybody but will no
 make any final decision until after he maps out his own course of action with regard to his administration. From his announced intention of being "the best listener in the United States" for few months 1t Is probable that until he has talked with party leaders and taken counsel wit people all over the country he will L-t let his mind dwell specifically with appointments. The President elect said tonight that he considered the time between his election and hls inauguration a period In which he should listen very care fully to the ideas of men enlightened and informed on national questions and that it was "a public duty for him to do so.
 No Vacation Plans
 The President-elect was confronted tonight with reports about his pro- posed vacation. He said any definite announcement that he was going to the Bermudas was not authorized. 'For the very reason that l am going away to rest" he added. q will have no an- nouncement of my plans to make until the day before l start He said if ne did take a sea trip he certainly would Tot go on private yacht, but would go as any other person would on regular steamer. He is anxious for a vacation, and it is likely he will get away within a fortnight
 Governor Wilson had busy time with his correspondence and telegrams to- day. Callers came in a steady pro cession in spite of the rain apd muddy roads. President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia, and Dean Richard Dabney of the same institution paid a visit of compliment.
 Peyton Cochran and Col. Armistead Gordon, both of Staunton. Va, the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, came to invite him to visit the little town again. They told him they were arranging tor "a birthplace jubilee" for him. lie promised to come and they left 1t to him to select a convenient date. The President -elect said 1t probably would be during the month of December, cember 2s, when he will be 56 years old.
 To Continue New Jersey Fight
 Just because he is the President-elect Of the United States MT. Wilson does not he asserts, intend to retire from the fight he has waged for two years for programme of progressive Legislation in New Jersey. MT. Wilson said today he would stay in the fight at Trenton until ne had carried out his reforms. but with a democratic legislature behind him this is likely to be a smooth process when the lawmakers convene. Though cam psigning vigorously for the presidency, Governor Wilson concentrated earnest ap- peals in New Jersey. Nothing gives hlm more satisfaction than the fact that not oriy is New Jersey to be rephesented by two democrats in the United States, but for the first time in his administration as governor January l, 1913, both houses of the state legislatures will be demo- cratic. year ago he stumped the state to obtain democratic legislature, but he was defeated Mir. Wilson admitted ths.t the sprogramme of reform he had in mind fbr the state would be advanced as rapidly as possible. and through the fact that as tine future chief executive of the country nation- wide attention would probably be attracted by his policies in the legislature Of New Jersey.
 What we do in New Jersey" he said will have the force Of the whole United States"
 The governor has not yet announced his programme for the next session of the legislature. but 1t is likely that as SCOT as he takes q brief vacation he will call a conference of state leaders and a programme will be mapped out. The dem ocratic state platform recommends q constitutional convention. It is known that the governor wants to have the cor poration laws of New Jersey revised. | The reform in this connection he de- clares he never had an opportunity of -----~->->-~-~------ (Continued on Page Fourteen)