New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
WILSON'S RAPID RISE
Nominee of Convention Entered
Politics Only Two Years Ago.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson ~ was hap
tiled. But he dropped the Thomas about
tho time that he completed his first book
and took his FIRST position az teacher
| Since then he has been known 90 the coun-
try simply a. Woodrow Wilson
Mr.. Wilson cannot. lik" so many an office
seeker. appeal to the sentimentality OF the
public by an account Of a sclf-made mans
rise from poverty His father and grand
father were educated men. prominent In
their communities and comfortably well
of financially, not rich, but able TO give
an aspiring young scholar all the education
he needed II was not toward scholarship,
however, that his earliest ambitions led
him While he was in college he resolved
10 become public man. TO that end M"
studed law and hung out his shingle. But
law didn't flourish. and after eighteen
months OF II he gave il up and with IT, for
years to come his desire for Office. But
he became public man eventually
The Scholar in Politics.
Mr.. Wilson has often been referred to as
the "schoar IN politics" Many years de-
voted TO teaching and writing on various
topics Of government have given him a
philosophc turn Of m!ud. He has not as Il
rule ventured to express a definite opinion
on any subject without careful study.
An instance is told Of how ne replied TO
an interviewer who asked his idea "f
| Roosevelt 81 am told." said Mr.. Wilson
! that he is a man who talks az soon az he
thinks"
! During his campaigns for the Governor
nI no titI
Wilson gave a very fair idea Of how he
STOOD on the more important public ques-
tons Upon the general outlook for the
| future he said few months aGo:
The question of how we should wisely
deal with the present difficulties and con
rusions OF policy Is very comprehensive
one, indeed. No man knows enough to
answer II. Of course Eut one thing is
plain. and that Is that VIC must begin by
Diminishing from our minds the idea that
there Is any one general specih, or cure-all
that will clear the situation We must go
step by step. under the guidance Of Judg-
ment and good sense We must move,
moreover. By common counsel. No one
group of men. no one class OF men, can
wisely determine the policy OF a nation.
The conclusions OF the student must be
corrected by the experiences OF the poll
tlcian and the man of affairs. There is
no one programme Of politics that will suit
the whole country.
"Fortunately, we can no longer speak OF
! sections in this country or OF sectional
! divisions Of interest and sentiment but
| there has not ceased to be great diver
sity Of conditions both In politics and eco
monte development, and We ought to con
graduate ourselves that we have our feX-
ible system OF state and federal govern
ments by which We can adapt our policies
10 the places where they are to be tried out.
and so conform TO the actual diversity OF
circumstance.
Mr.. Wilson believes that the tariff Is the
greatest issue before the people mo frank
mind can doubt" ne said recently that
the great systems of special privilege and
monopolistic advantage that have been
built UP have been built up from the foun-
dalton of the tariff
'The tarlff question" he went on. is al
the heart Of every other ecOnomh, question
We havs w deal with. and until ne have