The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-02
GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF THE
HOME FOLKS FOR NEXT AMER
IcAN PRESIDENT.
IS GIVEN A LOVING CUP
Unique Tribute Is Paid to the Ex-
Governor Of New J~ersey-Turns
Reins Of State Government Over to
Acting Governor Fielder-Makes an
Interesting Address to His People.

Princeton. N. j., March 1.-Thou-
sands of the home folk of Princeton,
and with them the students of Prince
ton university, gave Woodrow Wilson
a farewell demonstration tonight as
they bade him Godspeed to the White
House.
1t was a unique tribute to the man,
who, after ~ years of residence in the
historic town, had been elevated to the
presidency of the United States, in that
10Th students and townsfolk Joined in
cheering him. 1t was the first cele-
bration in which town and gown
mingled in Juch great numbers and
with 80 much enthusiasm. A brass
band, q glare of fireworks and contin-
nous cheering brought the president
elect to the door of his bungalow Just
as the procession of students and resi-
dents turned the corner of Cleveland
lane, marching by the house where
Grover Cleveland lived and died.
A Loving Cup.
The streets We're muddy, but the
marchers trudged merrily along. When
they reached the Wilson home a great
cheer went up. c. S. Robinson, a re-
publican, and A. s. Leigh, a democrat,
bore a silver loving cup. Colonel
David NJ. Flynn presented it in a
brief speech. The president-elect stood
on a box just outside the portico of
his home and said goodbye to his fell
low townsfolk.
The p~resident-elect said he meant to
enjoy the three days between his res
ignation of the governorship and in
a%uguration day, In which he was a
.plain and untitled citizen" not be-
cause he had no particular RESPONSE
bility, but because Of the reminiscence
of the years that had preceded.
II want you to believe me-" he said,
when I say / shall never lose the
consciousness of those ears. l would
be a very Door president if 1 did lose
1t. I have always believed that the
real rootages of patriotism were local;
that they resided in ones conscious
ness of an intimate touch with per-
IONS who Were watching him with a
knowledge of his character.
You cannot love a country alb
stractly; you have got to love it o n
cretely. You have got to know people
in order to love them. You have got
to feel as they do in order to have
sympathy with them, and any man
would be a very poor public servant
who did not regard himself as a part
of the public himself. No man can
dmagine how other people are thinking.
He can only know by what is going
on in his own head, and if that head
is not connected by every thread of
suggestion with the heads of the peo-
pie about him, he cannot think as they
think.
II am turning away from this place
in body, but not in spirit, and l am
doing it with genuine sadness. The
real trials of life are the connections
you break, and when a man has lived
in one place as long as I have lived
in Princeton. and had as many expe-
riences as l have had here, first as an
undergraduates, and then as a resident
he knows what it means to change his
residence. and to go into strange en-
vironments and surroundings.
It nave never been inside the White
House, and + shall feel very strange
when I get inside Of it. I shall think
of this little house behind me, and re-
member how much more familiar it is
to me than is likely to be, and how
much more intimate a sense of pos
session there must be in the one cast
than in the other.