The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-07-10
For President by Demo-
Gratis At Baltimore.
he IS A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA
Was Educated for Law, and
Later Became President
Of Princeton.
NOW NEW JERSEYS GOVERNOR

Trenton, N. J., July 6.-Wood-
row Wilson, who now becomes the
Democratic partys nominee for
President of the United States, was
born in 1856 in Virginia. where he
was baptized under the full name
of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. He
dropped the Thomas about the time
that he completed his first book and
took his first position as teacher
/ Mr. Wilson cannot, like many an
offce-seeker, appeal TO the senti-
mentality of the public by an ac-
count of a self-made mans rise
from poverty. His father and
i. grandfather were educated men,
y prominent in their communities,
and while not rich, were able to
give the aspiring young scholar a
liberal education. 1t was not to-
ward scholarship, however, that his
earliest ambitions led him. While
in college he resolved to become a
public man. To that end he stud
led law and hung out his shingle.
But his legal practice was not lu-
crative, and after eighteen months
OF it he gave it up, and with it, for
years to come, his desire for Office.
His father, the Rev. Joseph Rug
giles Wilson, moved to Georgia when
the boy was years old, and later
preached in various churches in
North and South Carolina.
Young Wilson entered Davidson
College at the age of II. After two
years he entered Princeton, from
which he was graduated in 1879.
He then studied law In the Univer-
sity of Virginia, receiving the de-
gree of bachelor of law in 1882. He
received the degree of bachelor OF
philosophy from Johns Hopkins
. University in 1886, that of doctor
OF laws from Wake Forest Univer-
sity, North Carolina, in 1887, and |
that of doctor of literature from !
Yale University at its bi-centennial
celebration.
Prof. Wilson occupied the posi-
ton of adjunct professor of history
in Bryn Mawr College, and after
ward professor of history and polit-
ical economy in Wesleyan UNIVERSE
ty. In 1890 he became professor
of Jurisprudence and political econ
omy at Princeton. In 1895 the IT,
tie of his chair was changed to that
of professor of Jurisprudence and
upon its endowment he became Nc
Cormick professor of Jurisprudence
and politics. Prof. Wilson also for
several years gave a course of lee
lures in Johns Hopkins University.
He gained fame also as lecturer
and writer. His work entitled
1.-The State" and his LITE of George
Washington" are among his best
known writings.
Prof. Wilson became the thir-
teenth in the roll of presidents at {
Princeton in 1902, and the first lay :
man to hold this Office, all his pred ,
ecessors having been Presbyterian ,
clergymen. He is, however, rul- q
ing elder in the Second Presbyter- S
ian church of Princeton. AS a pro- :
lessor he was very popular and his {
elective classes were always among q
the largest.
When Mr.. Wilson, after twenty :
five years of service as an educator,
resigned the presidency of Prince
ton in 1910 to accept the nomina-
ton for Governor OF New Jersey, a
there was a general tendency to e
look askance at the "schoolmaster n
in politics" However, he was car fl
ried into Office on the radical anti W
wave that swept so ii
many States. n
Mr.. Wilson was elected by plu- v
rality of $4,000 votes and became W
he first Democratic Governor v,
which New Jersey had had for six
teen years. 1t was this sweeping S,
victory in State that had been to
hostile to Democratic az
principles that brought the former re
college president prominently into m
rational politics. tn
The platform on which he ran ni
pledged his party to the enactment
Il workman's compensation act, st
eform of the election laws of the q.