The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-13
THE PROFESSOR is A PROFESSOR
STILL; HIS SPEECH SHOWS
HE CANNOT CHANGE.

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Herald Republican: Professor Will
son walks but gingerly when he walks
at ALL He seems uncertain of the
thoroughfare ahead of him and is too
conscious of the prejudices and con-
l!cting ideas or those who walk with
him to fall into that unaffected, swing
ing stride that betokens the full man,
mental and physical. The clustered
halls of institutions of learning have
taught him to be precise and didatic,
but they have given him cunning and
too much to be void of effense as is
caution, rather than courage. He seeks
necessarily the habit of one whose
livelihood long hinged upon pleasing
a majority Of those whose antagon
,sms, one against another, were MT
dotted when they came together as
ostensible men and brothers TO con
slider the acts and policies of the
president of their college.
Professor Wilson In undoubtedly .
very estimable citizen and his bux
ON daughters, whose photographs an
irrepressible and resourceful press
agent has gotten into every newspa
per in the United States, proclaim
him man of family and an antag.
onist of race suicide. We believe the
average man would trust him with
his watch or his pocketbook aau
would believe him when he related
stories that might otherwise tax
ones credulity. His cruel treatment of
Colonel Harvey may be forgiven as an
error of the head rather than the
heart because this weak and kindly
man, who thrives on the good opin.
ion of his neighbors and droops wist
fully and visibly when cutting cri.i.
c'sm comes his way is as plastic as
wax in the hands of a strong charac-
ter such as Mr. Bryan.
The Nebraskan told the professor
that his intimacy with Colonel Har-
vey rather prejudiced those who con.
slider association with Wall street to
be constructive grand larceny, and the
professors confidence in Mr.. Bryan s
1t is not to be doubted that the pro.
fessor shed bitter tears over the es-
arrangement, that he eventually rela z.
ed to the full the ungrateful enormity
of his conduct but the juggernaut OF
ambition crushed his better feelings
When he wrote to Mr.. Harvey by way
of apology that his mind was a "one
track road, capable Of accommodating
but one train of thought at time
we believe he mirrored his real feel
ings and that the sorrow which puri
fies filed his heart.
A full understanding Of the charac
ter of the professor is necessary to
read illuminatingly his speech Of &C
ceptance of the Democratic nomina
ton. Academic, stilted, didatic, pro
sy and dull, the professor spea,-s
through every line of it his real char
acter. The words are well selected
and are fashioned into phrases by a
master hand. It is as though a paint
er, schooled to the last word in tech
nique, sat him down to reproduce a
sunset, charged his palette with the
proper colors for perfect reproduc.
ton and covered his canvas with q
| MI al 30 holl r.
ror up to nature, but achieved moth.
ing more than mechanical success
since inspiration was lacking and re.
alism was sacrificed to symmetry.
Summed up, the professor told the
Democratic committee and the coun.
try a great deal and he told them
nothing.
When he described conditions, he
: attributed them more to natural laws
and proper evolution than to the de.
finite attachments OF wise men who
knew what they wanted and how to
= get It; when he feared he was getting
severe, he apologlzed to unnamed and
: anonymous opponents who might be
: offended. He carefully avoided all
those subjects upon which his party
is not united for he knew that there
were as many opinions regarding them
as there were members OF the notif.
cation committee chosen by his par.
ty to strike straight from the should.
der and to carry the war into the en-.
emy's country, he shamefully excused
that enemy for whatever sins OF omis.
sion ana commission with which II
might be charged, then dropped the
subject with relieved air and launch
ed into a word painting OF Utopia as
! It ought to be.
BY birth, environment, training and
occupation, the professor Is academic