The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-05
WILSON'S FIRST DAY
AS NEW RULER
Continued from page IL

ents at regular periods and by which
Wilson would permit direct quota.
ton of his views. For a score OF
years no president has permitted di-
rect quotation of interviews.
Secretary Tumulty's most unusual
bit of precedent-breaking was in
making himself at home in the outer
offices of the white house Heretofore
the secretary to the president has
been almost as hard parsonage to
see as his chief. But Tumulty put in
more than half his time talking to
newspaper men and comforting with
visitors in the outside corridors.
The first guests entertained by
President Wilson and his family at 4
bread-breaking function, were the
PRESIDENTS cousin, John A. Wilson
of Franklin, Pa. and the ten mem
bers of his party, who came to the
inauguration, They had luncheon with
the family today.
Tonight the president and Mrs. Will
son will have as dinner guests their
cousins the Woodrows, from Column
bia. S. G. There will be eight or ten
in the party.
While President Wilson was busy in
! his office today, Mrs. Wilson, her
daughters and their relatives who
are stopping at the white house spent
the time unpacking their trunks and
getting located in their new surround
tings. Those who are stopping at the
white house for the present are Mrs.
Annie Howe, of Philadelphia, the
presidents sister; Mrs. Perrin Goth
ran, Mrs. Howe and daughter, of Co
lumbia, S. c., and little Josephine
i Cothran, the white house baby; !"
the presidents brother, Joseph R.
4 Wilson of Nashville and his wife and
daughter Alice.
The Wilson's also have as their
guest for few days, John Yeates,
: person, not relative, to visit them.
, After holding conference with
outgoing Secretary Knox, incoming
Secretary Bryan returned for half an
!, hours conference with President Will
son during which Ex-Governor Joseph
w. Folk of Missouri was received by
the president. Folk said it was purely
a personal call.
Il cannot discuss anything pertain
ing to the state department" said
Bryan, when asked il he had received
the resignation of American ambassa-
: 4 ;,tr ;, Yok
learn over there and am not familiar
, with the process by which those
designations are made"
The president had cleared his
desk of pressing matters by little
after noon and then walked to the
white house proper where he hat
! luncheon at 1:20.
The Ohio state delegation, here 70
!, the Inauguration, this afternoon pre-
!, scented Wilson with silver plaque
the largest ever rolled-engraved will
fac SMILES of the signatures of prom
inent state democrats and bearing the
: president and vice presidents pic
lures etched in black at the sides.
In the long roll of prominent Ohio
democratic names, one is missing
that of Ex-Governor Judson Harmon
who was one of Wilson'S rivals fol
the democratic nomination. This, II
was explained, was because Harmon
Twas touring Europe when the sigma
lures were obtained.
+ At 2:30 the president agreed tc
l,,en f,,nn 10
Ca, in the east room of the white
house.
Il After President Wilson finished
i luncheon, a crowd of twenty-five In
/ dams in war paint called on him in the
! east room. He shook hands with them