Arizona republican., 1912-07-04
Governor Wilson's Little White House" Thronged With Visitors Hundreds of Whom Were College Chumps"
ALL OF THEM KNEW
 IT WAS GOING TO BE
So Great and Constant the Throng That Candidate Has Not Had Time to Find Out What Kind of Platform Was Built
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

SEA GIRT. N. J.. July Ex-Governor Wilson was given little time to devote to his personal affairs or family to- day. From early morning the sum- mer home here of the man who was i yesterday nominated as the demo- 1 cratic candidate for president of the United States, was besieged with vis- i itors thousands of them. Regiments ] of men, women and children on foot i! trOd down the shrubbery. camped on | the porch, climbed on the brass can non in front of the residence, and par ticipated in a handshaking until the governors right arm was sore and ! stiff. The governor, however, did not 1 show that he minded it. He had smile for each newcomer and a hand
 clasp for the smallest girls and boys who won't vote for a dozen years or more. When they did not come in the governor went out and waved his hand
 or hat.
 1 In the midst of all this present day activity bit by bit. there are coming
 to light incidents of Wilson's course during the convention and immediate 1 ly prior thereto Today his secretary
 told the history of the telegram to IDI all III stlASN Gi lO IOI SIl iiltoSdS St against the selection of Parker for temporary chairman of the convention.
 As soon as Bryans message be- came public. even before it reached the governor" the secretary said, Wilson's managers got the governor on the telephone Don't answer the message until you hear from us, they begged. And the governor said he would not
 Down at Baltimore they rigged up a rough draft of the reply and sent it ! to the governor. He read it and handed it to me. It lodged the issue. The governor took it from my hands. It won't do Joe he said as he tore
 it into bits The people expect more
 than this from me. I wouldn't be just to them or myself if I used this. | We'll fix up another one.
 He took a pad. placed it across his 1 knee, and wrote his answer to Bryan l without crossing out a single word
 put down"
 Wilson had many pleasant inter- changes of courtesy with visitors to-
 day; many of these were members of | other parties than that of which he
 is the standard bearer He halted d 1 man with d moving picture machine, l bowed smiled looked east and west and did d dozen things for the film. | Not a step was made out of the door way today that will not be thrown on 1 6 screen.
 It seemed that every visitor was an old classmate former pupil, dear i friend or political astrologer who had known what was going to happen ever l so long ago. Dozens who used to call 1 him Tommy and scores who could
 quote his exact language on innumer- able occasions. and hundreds who knew he was the man of destiny. 1 There were innumerable "originai l Woodrow Wilson" men. And they did not mind saying so.
 l Gilbert J. Waller q delegate to Baltimore dropped in on his way l home to Honolulu. to tell the gov ernor that Hawaii could not see any l thing but Wilson. F. A. Thompson
 and D. w. Gregory. Texas delegates. told the governor they had said Wi son" forty-siX times at Baltimore, and would have said it forty-si l more