The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-06
WOODROW WILSON

WOODROW WllsoON.
II was as a lawyer that Woodrow
Wilson made his first bow TO the world.
and as president OF Princeton ne De-
came more widely known. but Il was
as a reformer that he achieved the
llimelight. In the New Jersey governors
chair.
Born In stanton. Virginia. Dee. ~.
1856. he was christeped Thomas Wood
row Wilson but In his youth he cut
of the Thomas" because. as he said:
he wanted TO use only one name anu
too commonplace. Graduating trom
Princeton in 1879. he practced law TOT
two years In Atlanta. Georgia. petore
tory and political economy Tor three
years In Bryn Mawr college, ana Vas
instructor In the same orancnes TOT
two years In Wesleyan university De-
fore he was engaged as teacher OF
Jurisprudence and politics In Prince
| ton his alma mater. He became presi-
don't of Princeton Aug. i. 1SOz. ana
held that position until OCTOBER. wv
| In 1886 he married Miss Helen Louise
Arson. OF Atlanta. Georgia Gov. VII
son holds A. b., IL. D., Ph.D. and otner
degrees from Princeton. University OF
| Virginia. Johns Hopkins. Brown. Har-
ward, Williams. Dartmouth ana faie
| universities.
II was as writer that woodrow
| Wilson first got before the people as =
| politician. He wrote voluminously OF
| the evils OF bosslsm, the corruption OF
politics and the like. and quite nat
urally glided from the pen to the pia ao
| TO speak for various meetings and din
| ners In all the large cities.
! "A prophet Is not without honor
save In his own coS SS,n ana s unro
| Woodrow Wilson was being taikeu
about as reformer long before the
people OF New Jersey considered him
AS far back as 1904 people In the
west were talking about Wilson as q
presidential possibility. but New Jer-
sey knew nothing Of him or about ~
spoken Of" But IL was not until 1911
that the people OF the Doctors adopted
state "discovered" him. Then the
Democratic bosses OF the Sorpora,,itT ZION,
to elect n governor. They had not nae
one since the days OF Cleveland. and
IL was decided that reform was gooc
platform. Considering reformers, they
hour" and ran him. Wilson was elect
ed. but the bosses soon were led e
believe that they had picked a lemon;
long lean legs firmly entwined about
the governors rungs than he begar
, loudly TO defy. lie dened the bosses
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everybody while the deriving was good
and he made a noise that was heare
throughout the country.
The time when you can play poll
was one Of Gov. wilson's platitude,
on the night he accepted the New Jer'
seY call" and there are those who
now paraphrase-Ala- remarks thusly
"The time when you can play the peo-
pie and fool the politicians has mo-
come"
One OF the most amazing incidents
or Woodrow Wilson's campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination
was his embroglio with Col Geork'
Harvey. editor OF Harpers Weekly
and Col: Henry Watterson: editor o
the support accorded Wilson's boom b,
publication boosted Wilson in evers
nd hs e. G ns%spa ape 't shs, Gov
Wilson had broken with Col Harvey
and requested him to discontinue hi
support OF Wilson. Wrappers Weekly
came out with an explanation that y
: dropped Wilson at his request. Their
4 Col watterson got into the game b,
telling OF the meeting In New York o.
Col. Harvey. Gov. Wilson and himself
AT which Wilson quarreled with Col
Harvey and Col. watterson becaus.
they had enlisted I'm his behalf Thomai
Fortune Ryan. millionaire traction an,
maintained that at first Wilson tool
kindly TO the Ryan proposition. This
thing ended with Col watterson's pro
posal that the controversy be referred
10 an old-fashioned court OF honor. AL
incident OF the AFFAIR was the publica
tIon of letter that Gov. Wilson wa
said TO have written to Adrian III. 10
IIIne. attacking william Jennings Bryan
. and hoping that he could be knocked
!, into a cooked hat" Col. Bryan evi
IDENTIFY did not resent the letter FOL
. he was an admirer or the New Jersey
governor and proved his friendship 70
him at the Jackson day dinner helix
shortly thereafter in Washington. p