New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
''The Saturday Review" COM
menting on Election, Hopes
for a Rest from Roosevelt.
"NATI0N" LAUDS WILSON
President Elect, Says London
Publication, Belongs to
British Type of Pub
lie Man.
IBy cable to The Tribune

London, Nov. 9.-"The Saturday Re-
view" says Of this weeks election:
THE United States is making a new
start, or should be- The country has
broken with the regime of twelve years
and has got new man with new ideas.
has a clean man. Wilson has an oppor
tunity for good that seldom comes to a
public man. He begins a new era with
the whole of a great nation, especially
all that is best in it. at his back. He is
no ones nominee; no great man put
him in in order to turn him out So
far as any public man can be his own
master in a democracy DR.. Wilson is.
AS to others one would say politi
cally, God rest their souls; they are
dead President Taft, a good, easy
man, had the misfortune to be corrupt
ed by evil communication. He came no
against the worst OF all things--a false
friend. 1t is unfortunately not out of
the way Of the VIC Id that the false
friend suffered less than the victim.
Colonel Roosevelt, too, is dead, but
one has an uneasy feeling that his
spirit may be hard to lay. The diff
Guilty he has of being beaten is the best
thing about him. but in all sobriety We
see no reason why America or our owr
country could wish Roosevelt ever t.
rise again, as unfortunates are bound
TO read public mems speeches, be they
ever so long. We hope, at any rate to
be delivered for a reasonable space
from an orator whose most recherche
phrase in all we read of his is common
place and whose most original thought
is platitude." The Nation" says:
"The election in the United States re-
suited in an Overwhelming triumph for
Wilson and progressive ideals, but 1t is
an error to call 1t triumph for the
Democratic party. The President, in
fact, was elected by minority vote,
but 1t is a question whether any sub
stantial injustice was done by the alb
surd system of indirect election.
Wilson probably is I'm the middle
term between the sensationalism of the
Bull Moose and the conservatism Of
Taft. The main fact is that the over
whelming progressive tendency re-
suited in the election of progressive
President, who happens to be also a
fairly orthodox Democrat.
Wilson comes into national politics
with an endowment Of reading, culture
and philosophy such as no American
has exceeded. He belongs, indeed,
rather to the British type Of public
man, as represented by James Bryce,
Lord Morley. A. ]. Balfour and the late
Henry Butcher, than to the American
type. He will bring to his Presidential
duties an intellectual power a knowl-
edge Of science of government and
capacity for administration that will
insure success. There is no rigidity in
his Intellectual equipment. He has the
gift Of learning and the higher gift Of
acknowledging mistakes, but one some
times seems to discern certain want
VI tltSlltllN III iltS iiAOi al Ntih Pei oAiiSiiN
and judgments. He is a man Of un-
bending integrity and ardent and eX-
allied character. He may at times find
II difficult to At himself to the COM
promises of politics. That, however, is
a speculation which the future may or
may not confirm.
"What in the moan time is certain is
that no man Of wider culture or
sweeter nature or of more charming
personality was ever elected to the
Presidency His pleasant humor, rich
and spontaneous flow OF conversation
and dignity that underlies an unpre-
tentIous manner will make the White
House during the next four years
place worthy of the earlier days of the
Republic"