The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-14
WATERS0N SEES
THINGS OARKlY
Wilson Faces Many Pitfalls
and Congress Will Test
the Soul.

Louisville. ny. Nov. 14.-Under the
caption. The New Dis%pensation," MIR.
Watterson says in the Courier.Journal
today:
Now that the election is over and
the battle won. and that the shouting
has had time to subside into a sigh Of
satisfaction and relief. let the minds
o heaven to earth and from earth
to heave call attention Of the less
thoughtful to some Of the giants and
dragons which will presently ris.
across the party's line of march to
divide Its counsels and obstruct its
progress.
They may seem just now to unre-
hecting and optimistic enthusiasm bu,
airy nothings. mere pigments of over
wrought or Of prejudiced Imagination,
Yet they are real. and It will not re-
quire the poets pen to give to each
his form and pressure. even to distin-
gu1sh each by a tag bearing a local
habitation and a name.
The democratic party out Of the
two terms of Grover Cleveland got
nothing except agreeable interludes
partyism. Woodrow Wilson is abier
and far more highly equipped-much
better qualified to make a really great
democratic president than was Grover
Cleveland.
But the obstacles which Cleveland
had to meet and overcome were foot
hills by comparison with the noun
Itatns already arising across the high
way that stretches out before Wilson.
Within Mr.. cleveland's each reach.
II ne had known how to profit by
them. were men Of the first order Of
intellect; men trained to the respon-
|sibiltties of government; men used to
the amrmations of public policies: men
who had sat in the high places of
legislation and administration.
Wilson ON Own Resources.
Mr.. Wilson will have to rely for the
most part upon discoveries and crea-
new to oficail life: n%ovitiates to prac-
teal and large affairs. Barring a few
members of the house. a few senator's
having chiefly negative experience, he
Will at once encounter In the lower
branch of congress a top-heavy ma
.jortty. with possibly a divided leader
ship. and, in the upper. If support at
all. yet too close for comfort.
Public opinion is nowhere crystal
lied. 1t Is In a fluid state. He who
saddles and brides and successfully
rides the monster without a head CALI
ed democracy must be possessed of
the nation makers Of old. and in addi-
ton be attended by the good fortune
which genius sometimes attracts and
sometimes compeis.
The objections which were gener-
ally offered to Woodrow Wilson as the
that he was rather a school
master than a statesman. If not tyran-
nous and in%tolerant. yet tactless. in
capable Of making common cause.
and working to harness and lacking
a high sense of personal obligation.
them founded in fact, may
or may not show themselves to be
in the elected president.
Upon the threshold he will have
rough work to do. 1t Is safe to say
the onrush Of ONCE hunters will sur
pass anything ever known before. A
kindly. grateful man would
find himself submerged beneath the
cross currents Of sentiment and duty.
1t will require the most obdurate of
masters. used to the disciplinary and
to resist the appeals. some
of them real. but most of them spuri-
Gus. which will echo through the liv-