The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-11-20
Eight Months of Wilson
(From the Portland orssonian)

President Wilson, having been In
Office eight months we are able now
to judge of him as an executive by
performance instead Of by promise.
We can look back on eight months OF
continuous activity, for no sooner was
he warm in his seat than he called
congress together and he has kept that
body and his heads of departments In
action all the time with due deduc-
ton for Secretary Bryan's excursions
on the Chautauqua circuit. Through
out that period he has never permit
ted anybody to forget that he is presi-
dent, that he is personally RESPONSE
BILE for the success or failure of his
administration and, with 1t, Of the
democratic party and that therefore,
when differences OF opinion arise his
judgment must prevail.
he Has Ruled Congress.
He has been so successful In bring
ing other men to his view point that
he has dominated congress to degree
unequalled by any recent predecessor
and with a minimum Of friction. There
has been none Of that driving Of an
unwilling congress by flashing the
whip OF public opinion which marked
the Roosevelt administration. On the
other hand, congress has not treated
his recommendation with the studied
Indifference it showed for those of
President Taft. Far from it, for con-
gress has been said to eat out Of his
hand He called upon that body to
revise the tariff and do nothing else
until that job was finished then to re-
form the banking and currency laws
with like concentration Of effort. He
instructed congress to pursue the lat
ter job to completion and that free
and independent body Of Legislators
meekly obeys, even at the sacrifice Of
its much-loved mileage. He has
aligned those who were disposed to
balk at some Of his tariff provisions
and has stilled every murmur of dis
content. He has induced Messrs.
Clark and Underwood, his rivals for
the nomination, to pun in the harness
with him and to accept his leadership
without question. When Representa-
tive Clayton, whose aid he needs in
the house, seeks a senatorship, he
dictates an act Of self -abnegation,
which is promptly performed, and
clears the way for Mr.. Underwood to
grasp the toga. He handles congress
in manner to command admiration.
He is the chief.
Held Congress to One Job.
Mr.. Wilson believes in doing one
thing at time and finishing it be-
fore he begins another job. He kent
congress at work for six months on
nothing but the tariff and refused to
bring up any other subject to dis
tract its attention. With consummate
skill he steered the tariff bill through
when very few democratic defec-
items could have wrecked 1t. He has
made known the points in the cur
experiences more difficulty in align
ing his party in the senate for that
measure than for the tariff bill, but his
success in the one case justifies ex-
pectation of success In the other
though with more effort.
Civil Service Man in Theory But Not
in Practice.
Prior TO his election Mr.. Wilson had
been regarded as theorist, a man
Of fine principles thought out. in the
study. which he would obstinately
hut vainly try to put in practice re-
CARELESS of policy and expediency. He
has not lived up to this expectation.
He was a civil service reformer but
he has not been slow to distribute the
high offices and the high diplomats
posts among good democrats. He has
left Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Burleson