Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-01
For Or. Wilson to Explain.

|
| ceive the people on the tariff, and as
to our citizens of foreign birth, but
other things as well. The letters and
comment following are from the Los
| Angeles Tribune:
| When Woodrow Wilson was profess
sor at Princeton University and j. W.
Park of Los Angeles held the fellow
ship in social science they were OF
terms of almost daily association
| Nothing was more natural than that
Park and Wilson should discuss sub
| jects of social and economic interest.
| Their personal intimacy and their pro-
| fessional pursuits alike would have
| contributed to that result.
On one occasion, according to Park,
Wilson told him: "a DO NOT BE-
LIEvE IN DEMOCRACY THE
RULE OF THE MANY. | BELIEVE
| IN ARiSTocRAcY-THE RULE OF
| THE FEW; BUT WISH AN ARTS
TocRAcY OF BRAINS, NOT OF
WEALTH."
On another occasion Wilson said To
Park: II AM OPPOSED TO 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 DoiNG?'
DIR. Wilson denied that he had ever
entertained or expressed the senti-
ments attributed to him. He even at
fected to be in doubt as to Parks
identity and asserted that he was nos
certain whether he remembered him.
Thereupon The Tribune challenged
| his veracity. 1t was familiar with the
numerous instances of his instability
| of conviction. Il knew that within the
| space of handful of years he had
violently opposed and as rapturously
| favored the initiative and the referen-
dunn He had sneered at direct
primaries, and anon he had praised
them. He had opposed government
| regulation of railroads and with
| chameleon like facility had come TO
| favor such regulation. But in all
| these instances he rested his change
of attitude upon the fact of alleged
| conversion. He professed to have seen
| the light. Admitting the narrowness
of his former views. he openly beat his
| breast in confession of his errors and
1 declared himself believer.
| He chose TO adopt a different course
| with relation to the Park charges. He
| chose to make a denial. He not only
| denied having held or expressed such
! convictions, but he denied knowledge
of the man who brought the charge
against him.
The charges gained currency
throughout the nation. They were
harmonious with acknowledged be-
4 liefs Wilson had expressed. Honest
members of the Democratic party, to
Iwhom Democracy possesses a social
as well as political significance, were
resentful against their party's candi-
date who had declared: q DO NOT
BELIEVE IN DEMocRAcY-THE
RULE OF THE MANY. / BELIEVE
I'm ARIsTOcRACY-THE RULE OF
4 THE FEW" h7p
The men and women who love Re-
publican institutions looked with
alarm upon the presidential aspira-
tions of one capable of asserting: IL
Am OPPOSED TO HlHER EDUcA-
ITIoN 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 DO
iNG"
Reluctantly yielding TO the necessity
of action, on October IS Woodrow Will
son wrote to Acting Chairman Nc
Adoo of the Democratic campaign
, committee the letter that follows:
My Dear Mr. McAdoo: have looked
over the material you handed me
containing the statement of one j.
] w. Park about opinions he says | eX-
pressed to him, and am very much
surprised to learn that Senator Dixon
7 has been party to their use in cir
, | culation.
j did not at first recollect Park at
all, but / have looked him up in the
; records of the university, and recall
, him now very clearly. | remember
having been Obliged to reject certain
G written work which he submitted for
: a degree because of its utter confu-
sion of thought. 1t showed that he
: could neither think nor comprehend
His mind was of sort that gets
nothing correctly.
AS for his statements, they are of
course entirely false. ! never ex-
pressed the opinions he ascrbes to
me Tor the very good reason that i
a never entertained them. l should not
. like TO believe the man deliberately
false. 1t is only ] dare say. another
+ Nuisance of his entire inability either
to understand or interpret anything,
: Faithfully yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Writing that letter Gov. Wilson
destroyed his candidacy. BY his OWL
pen he proved himself to be devoid OF
2 honor. With his own hand he sup
1t plies he evidence justifying The
q Tribune's impeachment of his veracity
:. At the very time that he and Parl
were on terms of daily association, tn,
~ enc being the professor of jurispru
% dnnce the al her a llniuareftu fallnru In