The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-10-26
DIDN'T KNOW 1T
WAS LOADED.

Under the heading Wilson Misrepresented"
our local contemporary printed the following in
its last issue:
with great gusto that disreputable and dis
credited sheet, the HeraldRepubcan, has several
times, and with caustic comment, printed the
charge made by one J. w. Park, formerly a
Princeton student, that while attending Prince
ton he heard President Woodrow Wilson make
these statements:
DO not believe In Democracy-the rule Of
the many. ! believe in aristocracy-the rule
Of the few; but | wish aristocracy OF brains
and not Of wealth.
| disapprove Of the Chautauqua idea, the
attempt to give a smatterns Of culture to ev
erybody, which results in securing concet
without knowledge.
! am opposed to the higher education for
the common people, somebody must do the
dirty work OF the world; why shouldn't the
children Of the working classes be brought up
to do the work their parents are now doing7
Democratic Chairman Smith of Weber County
telegraphed national headquarters regarding
Parks assertions, they were repeated by both
the Herald Republican and Ogden Examiner, and
were being used by INSCRIPTIONS orators to dis
credit Mr.. Wilson with the people generally and
the aboring class in particular On Saturday
Mr.. Smith received the following personally die
tated reply from Mr.. wilson
did not at first recollect Park at all, but
have looked him up in the records Of the
university and recall him very clearly.
remember having been obliged to reject GER
tain written work which he submitted for a
degree because Of its utter confusion Of thought.
II showed that he could neither think nor COM
prehend.
AS ror mis- statements, they are, OF course,
entirely false. ! never expressed the opinion
he ascribes to me, for the very good reason
that never entertained them. I should not
like to believe them deliberately false; 1t is
only, dare say, another instance Of his entire
inability to understand or interpret anything
said to him.
Signed, WOODROW WILSON.
Our Journal friends evidently did not know
that the Park episode loaded as witness the
following from the Herald Republican,
Bearing in mind that this man, of whom
the professor writes as unable'either to under
stand or interpret anything" graduated from
Princeton under the professors tuteage, and
that Doctor Wilson carefully avoids impugnlng
his veracity, we pass on to letter which Doc
tor Wilson wrote to President VIII of the Kan
sas State Agricultural College May 49, 1897
at a time when he and Mr.. Park were very good
friends indeed and when the professors knowl
edge of Parks intelligence and scholarship and
confidence in them We're refreshed by daily
sociaton, This letter is as follows:
Princeton, New Jersey May 49, 1897.
President Thomas E. viii,
Kansas State Agricultural College.
My Dear Sir: ! understand that Mr.. Joseph
W. Park is a candidate for position in your
faculty and take pleasure in TESTiFYlNG TO
HIS ABILITY AND PROMISE AS A SCHOLAR.
He WON UNUSUAL DISTINCTION HERE AS
A STUDENT, and has held our fellowship In
social science during the present year. THINK
DAILY COMMEND HIM TO YOUR FAVOR
ABLE NOTICE. Very Sincerely Yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
The professor has overlooked, Also some other
damaging facts that prove his slurs at Mr. Parks
founded and which, 10th as one is to believe It,,
arouse the suspicion that Professor Wilson has de
scended to falsehood. Princeton publications u
the period when Mr.. Park and the professor sus-
tanned close relations as educator and favorlte II.
pill, disclose that Wilson knew Park intimately.
They show among other things that
WILSON SELECTED PARK FOR THE ANNUAL
COMMENCEMENT DEBATE; THAT PROFESSOR
WILSON COACHED PARK AS ONE OF THE
PRINCETON REPRESENTATIVES, FOR THE
HARVARD DEBATE; THAT THE PROFESSOR
DELIVERED TO MR.. PARK A SUBSTANTIAL
PRIZE AWARDED TO THE LATTER IN A CON.
TEST IN WHICH DOCTOR WILSON HAD Sc.
LECTED THE JUDGES ONE OF WHOM WAS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The professor also seems to have forgotten that
Mr.. Park in open, nationwide competition WON
UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN TWO GREAT
UNIVERSITIES PRINCETON AND THE uNIvER.
sITY OF CHICAGO THAT DIR. PATTON AT
THAT TIME PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON, GAVE
WRITTEN EXPRESSION TO THE HIGH REGARD
IN WHICH HE HELD MR.. PARK"