New-York tribune., 1912-08-26
Mr.. WILSON REVEALED
uis Writings Bare His Bias,
Concludes a Correspondent.
"a BOURBON OF BOURB0NS"
Nat a Broad Gauged Statesman
When Judged by His Own
Historical Works.

vino we're more concerned over a
J'I,,. Tor I'm the bush than they were about
'ep",.r 'r.'.ornor IN the hand. are responsible
w. election Of Woodrow Wilson in
io state two years ago. Of course,
roro unconsciously aided by those
,bo had real or imaginary party grleF-
.ncss 10 settle. and fancied that as Dr'
unison had been a college professor and
University president he was superior
der Of non-partisan being. fit 10 enjoy
V.r,;cal bonors by the grace of Repub-
lean votes.
vow that DR.. Wilson is anticipating the
p,e elSenry. and can only get it by the
..r,e misapplication or miscarriage Of
na,ublican votes which characterized the
lection. I'm New Jersey in 1910, it is in
,,dsr TO try and find # he has any valid
.,.ir on such an Inheritance. There is
.,od documentary evidence to show that
=. sympathy and prejudice he has been.
"A nrobably is. Bourbon of the Bour-
rs The proof is OF his own making,
IA the witness to be summoned the
..;,1 volume of the series of textbooks
.r,ued "Epochs Of American History
This particular volume. written by DR.
wlson. IS called Division and Reunion"
IA deals with the half-Century Of our
s.aonal life from 1929 20 1889 the ideal
nsrod In our history for the display Of
,,rtlsan bias and prejudice.
Ne cut the first sample of DR.. Wilson's
Mas from his treatment OF John Quincy
Ia,ms Evidently the New England
lind and character do not enthuse the
nsmoratic Presidential candidate. OF
Issus we have this personal estimate:
.Ts character. cold. unbending, uncom-
nsn;onsble, harsh. acted like an acid
yno, the party mixture Of the day. pre-
elpitsting all OF the elements hitherto
bsN in solution. He would placate no
sntagonsms, he would arrange no COM
promises. he sought no friends %. 49,
Having made Adams a sort of political
Isbnaelite. he calls attention 10 no good
hing in his administration. Neverthe-
lsss. the late Colonel A. X. Mcclure, in
his book. "Our Presidents and How We
Make Them says: The administration
cf John Quincy Adams will be consid
sred by the careful and dispassionate STU
dent of American history as the model
soyernment OF the Republic. He
was the real author of the Monroe Doc
rlne." DIT. Wilson dismisses New Eng
lsnds "old man eloquent in this fashion:
Adams Jared as a leader Of a faction.
and not as head of the government"
The Real Wilson Hero.
Andrew Jackson has the centre Of DR..
Wilson'S historic stage. Jackson was the
dol OF the people. the creator Of a sort
Il new nationalism" in the 30's. Jack
Sn's administration is given twice as
much space as is given TO any other
President during the half century under
-.yiew. Touching every possible error,
Old Hickory" is given an immunity
ah. He did no wrong himself. We
.,Ote from the historian: offices fell
% him not because Of his ambition. but
a,her because the imperative qualities of
Hs character thrust him forward as
,atural leader of men (p. A) The
and interests which Jackson
fmpelled." We are told, were forces Of
.salth. hasty because young, possessing
he sound but unsensitive conscience
shjch belongs to those who are always
,Onfdent in action" Up. 24) ''Unsensi-
i've" is surely good word in this con-
,ection. "Jackson's g election was the pep
les revolution" says Or. Wilson, while
he word people is used with the same
gotisn and demagogueTy so familiar IN
81. The peoples revolution is proved,
by the fact that in nine months
he peoples" President removed thou
and oficebolders, a dozen times as many
Il in all of the other administrations in
he history of the country.
Still according to Wilson, Jackson was
,ot a politician at all, but only an i'm
,erative person whose conduct Il would
! always diffcult 20 foresee or control
p SA) The centre -of-the-stage hero is
'sHeyed Of all responsibility for executive
.sa conduct by DR.. Wilson in this wise:
Probably Jackson was not responsible
IA, the appointment Of unworthy men,
While the introduction of "pernicious
PRACTICES into the national politics was
no fault Of Jackson. "Unquestionably
il must rest upon those who advised
jackson, rather than upon jackson him
self" %. S2.) The doctor also assures
Us that there was nothing consciously
anister'' in the partisan axiom that to
the rlctors belong the spoils," so Indus
triously applied by Jackson. Again the
sord Consciously" seems TO contain saw
Eg grace
Webster and Hayne.
The Webster. Hayne debates in the
United States Senate in the points COW
ed anticipated that type of secession
shieh became contagious a generation
stsr. They are revived by DR.. Wiison'
md IN dealing with them he prepares the
nay for an attitude of mind which ne
sismpts 10 form as the Civil War period
approached. In these controversies
Webster repudiated and made odious the
scessonists' theory. Wilson admits that
Ssbsier took the side Of 'statesmannke
fsiom, but at the same time insists
aSl Hayne delivered the doctrine upon
Ealch the Union had been founded. II
ssns impossible TO deny he says. ina.
A Argument of Hayne contained much
A0ie nearly the sentiment of l1of-sS.
81 Even those public men VINO
ased the Union most yielded theoretical
Seht ~ t..e opinion that state might
ally withdraw from the government
= her own option and had only pracu-
= aud P2triLac objections to urge.
~ Dr. Wilson is trying here 10
~ske out that the founders of the gov
uanent believed that when different
']iues make an agreement. 10 when all
hem are party. one of them can
"ssolye the bargain without the consent