The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-26
manner.

manner.
 As a matter of fact, the president
 hinted to MT Owen in that delicate | 1y suggestive language of which he is
 past master, that it would be well for | MT. Owen to be good and get into l line. The keen-witted Owen caught | the implied threat and ran to cover. | And herein lies another Wilsonian l quality that helps him in managing l Congress. When he gains a victory l over Congress he does not rub it in.
 In this he differs from Roosevelt. | When Roosevelt hammered Con gress into submission, which he did 1 quite frequently, he generally let it | be we'll understood that it was Roose- welt who turned the trick. No so | Wilson. With him it is case of | i've did it, and not fI did it.'' In this manner he lets the vanquished down easy instead of showing them upI"
 The case of Secretary Bryan fur | ntshes another illustration and per haps the most striking one of the Wilsonian methods. When MT. Bryan began to be severely criticised for leaving his work at the state depart
 ment to go on the lecture platform,
 the first opportunity was taken by the
 newspaper corresp pondents to draw
 MT. Wilson out the subject.
 In response to a question concern
 ing MT. Bryan's frequent absences
 when the Mexican situation was loom
 ing serious, the president replied that,
 although MT. Bryan was absent from
 Washington, he was always in touch
 with the department and ready to rush back the minute he was needed. No effort could draw from MT. Wilson the slightest criticism of his secre- tary of state.
 Apparently MT. wilson argues this way. If, as he has done. MT. Bryan sees fit to leave piles of Mexican dis patches lying unopened on his desk for days at time, if MT. Bryan keeps business visitors waiting while he talks with political friends, and then cuts short his audiences on mat ters of official business to talk with other political friends, that is MT. Bryan's lookout and not the presi- dents. The criticism, if criticism there is, will fall on MT. Bryan and | not on MT. Wilson.
 It is the same with Congress. The 1 democratic platform pledged certain | legislation. The president lays that | legislation before Congress. If Con gross does not pass it Congress will | get the blame and not the presid ent.
 At the same time the president does not rest with the simple request to Congress to do what Is expected of it. When Congress says it is tired and overworked and wants to go home to play, the president says he will stay at his desk and wait until Congress has finished it's sums, then teacher and pupils will all go away for a nice vacation. Congress grum- oIes some more, but feels all the time that its parents, which are the mass of voters of the country, will inevf- -ably say that teacher is right and ,he pupils are wrong.
 p Nobody knows better than Wilson r 5he strength of his position. He knows that nine times out of 10 the T. people are with the executive as against the legislative body, that the Fl people like to see mayor lick a city a governor lick a state Leg stature and a president dominate Congress.
 Moreover, the president has all the The spotlight is on him and what sver he says or does is given the wid- .st circulation through the public prints. Congress knows this and ears the results of going against him when he is apparently leading in the ;ourse the people who elected him on his pursuing
 But although the president has ac- wonders he has not done t all alone. He has had powerful lilies in the House, the most notable # whom is Congressman Underwood, hairman of the committee on ways nd means, and majority leader.
 Underwood has been a, tower of trength to the president from start O finish. Naturally they stood to- ether on the tariff, for that was Un- erwood's original offering. But they disagreed on the advisability of put ing the currency bill through at this ession.
 Yet, when the president insisted, sank his own feelings, put is shoulder to the wheel and went to york with Chairman Glass. He was { tuck close to the job all through the aucus discussion of this measure, oing all in his power to prevent any unnecessary delay.
 F'urthermor the members of the ommittee on ways and means and anking and currency have not spared themselves. With few exceptions they ave worked like ditch diggers from | tart to finish. It so happens that Lassa has furnished two of 4 ne hardeste workers on these com littees, Congressman Andrew J. Pe- erS on ways and means and Congress- lan Michael F. Phelan on banking nd currency.-W Washington Letter to ne Boston Globe.
 There is great alarm in the state of k CIV Hampshire lest Harry Thaw be-