New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-02
WILSON ENDS TALKS
WITH PARTY LEADERS
President-EIect Says Confer
enCes Are Over, for the
Present, at Least.
pRoGRESSIVES RECOGNIZED
Governor Has Not Decided
Whether He Will Walk or Ride
to White House-Goes
to Trenton To day.
nv Telegraph to The Tribune

BY Telegraph u me ll4puh'ti
Princeton, n j., Jan. 1.-President-elect
Wilson will go to his Office in Trenton to
morrow, but he made the significant an
nouncement tonight that his talk with
Mr. Underwood yesterday had brought
TO an end any further conferences with
Democratic leaders in Congress, for the
time. at least.
II have no more conferences scheduled,
he said.
any members of Congress later on, he
said: Yes, hope so. There are num-
Der of men whom l want to see and
whom shall see"
There isn't much doubt that several
Democratic chieftains will visit the Pres
;dent-elect at his Trenton office within the
next week or two, but they Will come on
their own initiative. after they nave
made an appointment with Governor WI
son.
The significance of Governor wilson
remark lies in the fact that thus far the
only persons who have conferred with
HIM have been Progressive Democrats, the
reactionary wing of the party having
failed to obtain any recognition from the
President-elect SO far as party counsels
have been concerned.
Invited Prooressives Only.
All who have received invitations 10
confer with the President-elect up TO the
present time have been Progressives.
William J. Bryan was the first leader to
be summoned TO Trenton for a confer
ence. Speaker Champ Clark, also classed
as nly-white Progressive, followed
shortly afterward, and after him came
number of progressive Senator'S among
them Senator Luke Lea, OF Tennessee
Senator Lee s. Overman. of North Caro-
lima; Senator George +. Chamberlain OF
oregon; Senator Henry f. Ashurst, OF
Arizona, and Senator John Sharp Will
Jams, of Mississippi, the last named being
a likely confession for the Democratic
leadership In the Senate
The name of Thomas r. Martin, OF Viz
sinia. the Democratic leader In the SEN
ate singularly enough, has been missing
from the list of those asked to confer with
the President-elect. So has the name OF
Senator i. NJ Simmons. of North Caro-
lima, who hopes TO become chairman Of the
Finance Committee, and also that of Sen
ator Charles a. Cuberson. OF Texas. All
of the above are classed as reactionaries,
I'm addition to Senator Claude A. Swanson,
of Virginia. who got on board the Presi-
den-elect's train at Washington the other
day. but cid not get closer TO him than
to shake hands
Quaint New Years Custom.
The President elect had a quiet New
Years Day He stayed up until midnight
last night when he and his two daughters
went through the quaint custom of open
ing the front door at the first stroke of
I2 and bowling the old year out. Just as
the last stroke OF II sounded the Pres-
dent-elect and his daughters bowed the
new year in
Governor Wilson was up bright and
early and took a three-mile hike in the
morning A number of friends and neigh
bors called in the afternoon. Among the
greetings received by the President elect
Schurman. dated Athens, which read:
May the new year bring you happiness
and successful administration
Governor Woodrow Wilson intimated
that If IL were a possible thing he would
like to go afoot between the White House