New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
IMPRESSED BY HIS BACKBONE.

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IMPRESSED BY HIS BACKBONE.
/ one day during the summer at Sea Girt
1 a well known New York Supreme Court
! justice had a conference with Governor
I OF she newspaper men asked him what he
/ thought Of the Governor.
Why he said, ''he is the most indie
pendent candidate | have ever met, and |
| nave met a good many of them"
I Il was not long afterward that some
friends OF Mr.. Wilson got into a little
row among themselves concerning a mat
ter which interested Governor Wilson in
tensely. In fact it had TO do with his
candidacy for the Presidency, and to a
great extent, coacernod Mr.. Wilson's
future. One OF these friends cndeavored
! TO pin the Governor down TO a certain
| agreement, and was S., persistent in his
attempt to tie up Mr. Wilson that the
latter ended the discussion with this crisp
remark:
Gentlemen, l am a free born American
citizen, and l am going TO do just as
please"
Mr.. Wilson is a good judge OF human
nature and very keen observer. and it
does not take him very long to separate
the wheat from the chaff. He has nerves
of steel, and during the trying days of the
Democratic National Convention at Bal
tmore he, of all the little group at Sea
Girt was the coolest and calmest.
Many persons think that when Woodrow
Wilson gets into the White House they
are going to find stern and austere
teacher as President of this big country
of ours On the contrary, those whose
paths lead them to him will find usually
a genial and charming companion. with a
fund Of good stories and always ready TO
grasp the hand of any person, whether he
be laborer or lawyer or banker
THE TWO MINGLED STRAINS.
IT is true that one may occasionally
find Mr.. Wilson stern and almost cold.
This is when the Woodrow that is in him
comes TO the surface. But 1t Is not a com
mon experience. There are two strains in
the President TO be-the Woodrow, the
Scotch maternal strain, tinged perhaps
with aloofness, and the other, the Wilson,
the Irish, whose nature is genial and
pleasant who is fond Of good company
and of good story. This is the strain
that predominates in Mr.. Wilson.
The President-elect is delightful com
panion and a splendid story teller. with a
fund of humorous stories almost inexhaus-
tible. One of his favorites is on President
Hadley of Yale. II is as follows Mr..
Hadley one day went to his room 10 take
a bath and there found a boy of possibly
ten years using the tub as a miniature
lake, upon which he was sailing some toy
boats Mr.. Hadley told the boy that he
would have to give up his fun a while as
he wished to take a bath; the lad re-
mctantly complied. Soon afterward the
little fellow, walking through the main
street of New Haven, stopped a passerby
with this remark: president Hadley can
not take his bath to-day"
The passerby. somewhat surprised,
asked why not?"
Because / have the stopper said the
boy, holding up the stopper OF the bath
tub.
Governor Wilson is conservative in his
tastes concerning clothes. He never uses
tobacco i'm any FORM and liquor is an un-
known beverage in the Wilson home.
Few people know it, but Mr.. Wilson
narrowly escaped becoming printer. His
father was Presbyterian preacher. but
before taking up theology he. with his six
brothers, had worked at the type case,
and it was his dearest wish that his son
Woodrow, should follow the same occupa-