The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-04
THE KIND OF PRESIDENT
WE GOT TODAY

IN tOASlutTll.S INC il'PItSoi'N
MONIES which %, Irrcd in Washing
ton city today the Inauguration OF
Democratic president alter sixteen
years oil unbrokcn Republican ad-
ministratiun-w we are sure that our
readers feel an even greater interest
in the personality of President Viii
son than in the spectacular features
of the inauguration itself, splendid
a. they were. The latter was the
passing show OF day; the former is
to dominate this government for at
lease four years. Sam Blythe is tn
best writer on the personal side OF
politics and public men in the Unit
ed States, and in the last issue of the
SATURDAY. Evening Post lie had, after
full acquaintance with the subject,
such i picture in detail OF Woodrow
Wilson. HrItten expressly to give the
people OF this c9un,r. "A graphic and
accurate IMPRESSION ut their new
president. that We can do our read
ei. 10 A,t;er or mOte timely service
ri. hit now than to take from that
article salient paragraphs showing
the personal traits and mental apti
tudcs and habits Of the man who is
in the eyes of all the world today.
Here are some of them:
lie has been elected president and
il is his plan to be his own kind of
president some one else has been. II
a proposition seems superiuOus or
inadvisable or impolitic or unjust to
him, he does not intend to embrace
It simply because it always has been
embraced
lie is not without party sympa-
thies and not lnsensible to party OBJ
legations. but he is the president
aid in the end il is his judgment
thai will prevail. as he intends to
n Hr il, in the settlement of all mat
tiers tht cone before him for con
eideratiOn.
We has patience. He will listen
He coEsuts freely lie considers
carefully; but in deciding he turns
his mind on and his other functions
of. ard the result is the result. He
has roa !'v assumed all the rcsponsi-
hili'y that has been given him. He
feels himself capable. He has faith
In him @elf. And he lock at himself
as an instrument for hrin,,ing about
rtain reforms and for ameliorating
certain conditions "
You will never find him sacriiir-
Ing himself for the temporary good
OF any party or any policy-his idea
Of personal and predestined respon-
sibility will forbid that; but you will
never find him stubbornly against !!
polite proposition that his intellect
can Justify when he sets 1t apart
Aid considers it. lie has keen po-
litical discrimination; but there is
about him marked pride of opinion
be has argued out for himself, and
a faith in that resultant personal
Judgment and its iinaity that will
make him a difficult subject for the
politicians in Congress and in his
party. The sum of il is that the COM
ing administration will be Will
son Administrations not more and
not less AS Democrat Mr. Wilson
will also make il Democratic ad-
ninistration, but ii will be vii
son-Democratic administration-not
a Dcmocrtaic-Wilso admnistra-
ton"
Their is nobody like him in our
big politics at present. and there
never has been. so far as | can learn. /.
re is tall. thin person dominated
b. Il mind. lie r2n be cordial. !,
suayc, Agreeable e,son in an entire
IL logical ra' He can be po-
lite, graci1; "ra person when
tie conclr.. with the pos
tulatos. ~~'ful. polished,
well-bred pe9- - Is circumspect,
petite, doco7cas. lie is social. So
ciahle and sacacious lie is a per-
son Of convictions who has the cour-
age Of thcm-a man of mentality
who makes his mind his mentor, not
his master. Nr Wilson is a man of
force. lIo hes nerve But-and this
S intcresting-he can be expedient
ls we'll as eyigent lie is more poll