The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-07-14

of the event. dropped the first third of
| his baptismal name, electing to be
known from that time on as Woodrow
Wilson. During his four years course
at the New Jersey institution Wilson
| spent a great deal OF his time in the
| college library, specializing on govern
ment, its theory and political leaders.
At the age of twenty-five he signaIized
the closing of his undergraduate days at
Princeton by breaking into the Interna-
| tional Review in August, 1879. with an
| article entitled Cabinet Government in
the United States" In the fall OF 1879
Wilson took up law at the University of
Virginia, where he INDUCED in a long.
dropping mustache and in membership in
| the University Glee Club-two marks of
adolescence which Manager McCombs
hopes his political enemies will not bring
up against him in the coming election.
Opened Atlanta once.
In May. 1852, Wilson carried his diplo-
ma and an oratorical prize to Atlanta.
Ga, where he hung up his shingle and
opened his Office. Eighteen months later
he took down his shingle and closed the
Office, the practice OF law not being
sufficiently remunerative. His sojourn
in the Georgia capital. however, was far
from being fruitiess. for it was here that
obtained her promise to become his wife.
The young couple were married in 1855
In the same year appeared Wilson's
Congressional Government; a Study OF
Government by Committee" The bulk
of the labor on this volume was done
during Wilson two-year course in the
science of government at John Hopkins
University, which accepted the work as
thesis and conferred upon the author
the degree of Phi. ID.
In the fall of 1855 Mr.. Wilson COM
menced teaching political economy to
the girls of Btyn Mawr College. From
this institution he went to Wesleyan
University, where he remained until
called to Princeton in 1890 to occupy the
chair of jurisprudence and political
economy.
In 1902 he was elected president of
Princeton and served as ''prexy" in the
lair of the tiger until nominated for
Governor OF New Jersey on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1910. He was elected the
same year, and his next step to fame
came when he was chosen TO lead the
Democratic forces in their fight for po-
l!tical supremacy this fall.
1t was as an author that Mr.. Wilson
first achieved a degree of fame outside
Princeton University. As an author he
is now least known. His largest liter
airy achievement is his History of the
American People, in five volumes. Mr..
Wilson's second book, THE State" is
used a textbook in many schools and
colleges. This was followed by two vol
umes of essays Then came George
Washington and the History OF the
American People"
Wilson, the Farmer.
Almost in direct opposition TO the
class appeal made by Wilson, the law
yer and pedagog. is that made by Will
sen, the farmer
Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 16,
1885, James Wilson-now better known as
'Tama Jim, the farmers friend''-came
to the United States with his parents in |
1852. After three years spent in Connec- |
ticut. he decided that the West was the |
place for a young man with an agri- |
cultural turn of mind and he moved to |
Iowa. settling at Traer. Tama County, |
Iowa, where he has made his home ever |
since.
AS soon as he had bought small |
tract of land he commenced the raising |
If crops-an occupation which has con-
sumed the major portion Of his time |
since then. Even now they tell tales in |
Iowa of the bumper crops which used
to be raised on Jim Wilson's place."
and the Wilson farm at Traer is one of
in the State.
James Wilson first broke into the pollti-
cal game through a desire for the passage
Of legislation which would be favorable
to the farmers of his State. Considering
that the best way to get a thing done
was to do II himself. he ran for State
and was elected, serving
N the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four
tenth General Assemblies. and rising
l. +. A. T.
named session. State politics being too
small a sphere for his activities, Wilson
entered the race for Congress and was
elected to the House of Representatives.
n 1S72-serving in the Forty third, Forty
'ourth. and Forty-eighth Congresses.
Was Railway Commissioners.
In the interval between the Forty-fourth
md Forty-eighth Congresses, Wilson
erved on the Railway Commission, and
rom 1870 to 1874 was a regent of the
;tate University. For the six years pre-
-ious to his entrance TO the Cabinet he
vas director OF the agricultural expert
mental station and professor of agricul-
ure at the Iowa Agricultural College at
Imes Here he inaugurated a numer of
weeping reforms in the methds of teach
ng scientific farming. and a chair of
griculture was named in his honor.
In 1897 he was called to Washington by
resident Mckinley and appointed Sec
etary of Agriculture. He was reap
ointed by the same President in 1901. by
resident Roosevelt in 1905. and by Pres
lent Taft in 1909. In point OF continuous
prvice, Secretary Wilson is by far the
can of the Cabinet, none of the other
,embers of the Presidents advisory
GARD having served more than three
ears. While It is practically certain
nat March 4. 1913. will mark the end of
ecretary Wilson'S career In the Cabinet-I
5 he would be forced out by the election
I his namesake, the nominee. and will
robably be dropped IL either Taft or
oosevelt winnie will retire with the
that he holds the record for
abinet service. James Madison and Z
enry Dearborn, Secretaries of State and +,