The Washington herald., 1913-03-19
STATESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY.

People arc still wondering how Wood
row Wilson has such "A knack at
handling politicians and preventing them
from placing him in the objective case.
How is a man who has spent all his
life in the halls of colleges able to see
through political intrigues as through
glass windshield?
a lifelong friend OF President Wilson
tells the answer.
why. as the President once told me
himself" says this man, the average
bunch OF politicians are pygmies in the
way of intrigues and Matching frame
ups when compared to the faculty of
big college. There is just as much poll
tics and schemlng to advance selfish in
tcrests in faculty or a board Of re-
gents as there is in a State Legislature
The difference is that the college fac
ulty is made up of men having kecner
minds than the average politician pos
sesses. There at Princeton, Wilson had
a constant fight against being under
mined by ambitious members of the fac
ulty. One or two men. in particular,
fought him with every conceivable kind
of diabolical scheme that an educated
man of resourRful mind could think of.
But he was amply able to take care of
himself. Do you suppose he didn't profit
by such training? Why, II made him a
| master"
There is one job that Postmaste Gen.
eral Burleson would like a whole lot bet
| ter than being in the Cabinet. 1t Is said
to have been his lifelong ambition to
become Governor Of Texas, just to
square things up for his grandfather.
| This grandfather ran for President Of
| the Texan republic. but lost out and was
obliged to content himself with the Vice
| Presidency. From the moment Albert
Sidney Burleson heard of all this, as a
small boy. he wished to put the Burleson
| family on the right side of the ledger
with Destiny, by becoming Governor
! He will never feel that he has made gooo
| until he does.
| The time had come to swear in Will
lam G. IcAdoo as Secretary of the
Treasury. smai1 group OF persons had
| assembled in the Secretary's room, in
GLIDING Justice Charles f. Hughes, =;
| the Supreme Court who was to admin
lister the oath, and everything seemed to
| be in readiness. when retiring Secretary
MacVeagh spoke up and said:
Il guess we'll have to wait
whats the trouble?" asked another
| department official.
| Mr.. McAdoo doesn't seem to have ar
rived said MacVeagh And he was
| right.
In three or four minutes, McAdoo came
hustling in. Justice Hughes asked for q
| Bible. Heretofore Treasury officials have
been sworn In with much informality,
and no Bible has been used. Acting on
Hughes suggestion. Chief Clerk Will
meth started to hunt a Bible. He said
he was almost certain there was one In
the building some place. In a Compare
lively short time he located the Treas.
ury Bible. but it was a large. fambily
size. too heavy for one to handle con.
veniently in taking an oath. So wilmeth
sent out and bought a new one of ordi.
nary dimensions. This one will be kept
for similar emergencies in the future.
Senator James MARITIME Of New Jersey
thinks he is the man who really pu,
Woodrow Wilson on the political map
MARITIME was the head of a Democratic
club in Plainfield, n. j., that was dying
as he says. of dry rot. He conceived the
idea OF having a lecturer come there un.
der the auspices of tho clrb. in tie hops
that the club might in that way acquire
some slign. prestige in the community
After tryins to think Of somebody 70.
some time. MARITIME wrote letter to vii.
son. then president of Princeton Uni
vcrsity. As 1t happened. Wilson accept
ed. And when he introduced the speak
er, referred to him as a nan whom hi
hoped to sec some dav at the head u
their State government. That was thu
first time such a thing had oeen sur
gested, and MARITIME cid II Just by wa,
of being pleasant, never thinking any
thing would come Of II.
But, Smith ought to get along we'll II
the House at that. Here Is the reason
for thinking so: He says he eot 4
whipping at school every day. as neariS
as he can recall, clear up to the day h
quit His trouble was that he couidn'
keep, still. He wanted to talk all thu
time. Now he has his chance to make
capital Of that tendency. On LOOKING
over the files of the Congressional Rec
ord. one finds that the members with
the most yards of talk have often beer
those who pulled down the bigges
pluralities.
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