The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-04
STUDENTS HONOR
WOODROW WILSON

Music.
Princeton, N. j., March l.
Thousands of the hone-folks of
Princeton and with them the
students of Princeton Univer-
sity gave Woodrow Wilson a
farewell demonstration tonight
as they bade him god-speed to
the White House. 1t was a
unique tribute to the man, who,
after II years of residence in
the historic town, had been
elevated to the presidency of
the United States, in that both
students and townfolk joined
in cheering him. 1t was the :
first celebration in which "town
and gown" mingled in such
great numbers and with so
much enthusiasm.
A brass band, glare of fire.
works and continuous cheering
brought the President-elect to
the door of his bungalow just
as the procession of students
and residents turned the corner
Of Cleveland lane marching by
the house where Grover Cleve-
land lived and died. The streets
were muddy but the marchers
trudged merrily along.
When they reached the Will
son home, cheer went up.
{. S. Robinson, a Republican,
and A. S. Leigh, Democrat,
bore a silver loving cup. Col
David M. Flynn presented it in
a brief speech. The President
elect stood on a box Just outside
the portico of his hom eand said
goodbye to his fellow towns
folk.
Mr.. Wilson said he meant to
enjoy the three days between
his resignation of the governor
ship and Inauguration day, in
which he was plain and uu- .
titled citizen" not because heS
had no particular responsibility
but because of the reminis-
cence of the years that had pre-
ceded.
Il want you to believe me-"
he said, when | say | shall
never lose the consciousness of
those years. | would be a very
poor President if I did lose it.
have always believed that the
real courage of patriotism was
local, that they resided in ones
consciousness Of an intimate
touch with persons who were
watching him with acknowl-
edgment of his character.
You cannot love a country
abstractly, you have got to
love it concretely. You have
got to know people, to feel as
they do in order to have SYM
pathy with them and any man
would be poor public servant
who did not regard himself as
a part of the public himself.
No man can imagine how other
people are thinking. He can
know only by what is going on
i'm his own head, and if that
head is not connected by every
thread of suggestion with the
heads Of people about him he
cannot think as they think.
Il am turning away from this
place in body, but not in spirit
and ! am doing it with genuine
sadness. The real trials of life
are the connections you break
and when man has lived i'm one
place as long as | have lived in
Princeton and has had as MANY
experiences as | have had here,
first as an undergraduate and
then as resident, he knows
what it means to change his
residence and to go into strange
environments and surround
ings.
81 have never seen inside
the White House and | shall
feel very strange when | get in
side of it. ! shall think of this
little house behind me and re-
member how much more famil-
lar 1T is to me than that it is
likely to be and how much more
intimate a sense of possession
there must be in the one case
than in the other.
"One cannot be a neighbor to
the whole United States. I
shall miss my neighbors.
shall miss the daily contact
with the men / know and by
whom | am known and one of