Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-04-01
WILSON ANALYzES
Self TO PRESS | | 4
President Tells What Office
Means to Him.

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SIZE OF TASK TREM ENDOUs
Chief Executive Finds Pose OF Dignity
lrksome and Declares When Term
I@gs 10 over He Will Visit Washington
on Sightseeing Tour.
Washing ton, March 23. Woodrow
Wilson unbosomed himself to the
4 members &of the National Press club
OF washington Friday, telling them
An q frank. conversational way how
he felt as president Of the United
|, States; how difficult It was for him to
imagine himself as the chief executive
With the formal amenities Of the posi-
ton, and how he had struggled to be
as free as the ordinary individual
without the restraints OF his office.
It was an intimate picture OF Wood
I row Wilson--the man -- drawn BY him
{ self, on the occasion Of the house
& warming at the Press clubs new
& quarters. ;,.s5 NH Il
$s: The president /, did not intend TO-
have his remarks reported, but later,
33at the request OF the club. the speech
was made publ z, ss$
4 sss w lson, az He Sees Himself.
\ ss:.I was just thinking OF my sense OF
] confusion OF identity sometimes when
read articles about myself, 4: the
v president said. Il have never read
an article about myself in which !
recognized myself, and have come to
II have the impression that I must be
n some kind OF q fraud, because I think
II 8 great many Of these articles are
4 written IL absolute good faith.
S 4, Il tYemble to think Of the variety
R and falseness In the impr essions !
J; make and It Is being borne In on me
q 40 that 1t may change my very dispo-5
Ssitiont hat i am cold and removed
& person who has a thinking machine
4 inside which he adjusts to the cir
Scumstanc les which he does not allow
I; to be moved by any winds of affec.
! ton or emotion Of any. kind but turns
Al like cold searchlight on, anything
4 that Is presented to- bis attention and
4 makes It work. B! as'i
U Feels responsibility KeenIy. Isl
:5Sss.is'I am not aware Of having any de-
h tachable apparatus inside Of me. On
the contrary, II ] were to interpret my
{ self. I would say that my constant
embarrassment is to retain the emo
I tons that are inside Of me.
y AZ = gu may not believe 1t, but I some
/ times feel like . fire from q far from
Z extinct volcano. and If the lava does
not seem to spill over It Is because
you are mot high enough to see into
J. the basin and see the caldron boil Be
z cause, truly, gentlemen, In the posi-
ton which / occupy there Is sort Of
Il II do not know how else to express
1T than to say-passi onatea sense OF;
being connected with my fellow men
IN . peculiar relationship Of RESPONSE
I bility Of office, but God knows there
are enough things In this world that
need to be corrected. fss 53sS
${i Fear, n ell Dlsappoint People. 81
II. Il have mixed first and last with
/ al sorts and conditions Of there
are mighty few kinds OF men that
have to be described to me. and there
& are mighty few kinds Of experiences
that have to be described to me--and
when think Of the number Of men
4 who are looking to me as the repre-
sentative Of q party, with the hope
& for all varieties OF salvation from the
1 things they are struggling In the midst
OF, It makes me tremble.
TT makes me tremble not only with
( . sense Of my. own inadequacy and
weakness. but as II ! we're shaken by.
!: the very things that are shaking
\ them. and II seem circumspect 1t is
z because I am 80 diligently trying not
to make any colossal plumbers, ss. 4
IF you Just calculated the number
OF blunders fellow can make in
"a hours II he is not careful and Il
he does not listen more than he talks.
e you would see something OF the feel
4 ing that ! have. 4 .&$ S.a a III
Always Eager TO Get Advice.
Il was amused the other day at .
remark that Senator Newlands made.
4 ] had read him the trust message that
\ Il was to deliver to congress some ten
days before I delivered 1t, and never
stop doctoring' things Of that kind
until the day have to deliver them.
When he heard 1t read to congress
1 he said I think 1t was better than;
4 1t was when you read it to me. ! said:
54Ss' Senator, there is one thing which do
u not think you understand. ! not only
use all the brains / have, but all I can
borrow, and / have borrowed q lot
since I read 1t to you first
That, dare say, is what gives the
impression Of circumspectness. I am
s listening; I am diligently trying to col
lect all the brains that are horrowable
Z in order that may not make more
blunders than It is inevitable that q
]. man should make who has great lin
! itations Of knowledge and capacity.
And the emotion Of the thing is SO
4 great that suppose must be some
kind OF q mask to conceal it.
Often feels He's Masqueradlno.
II really feel sometimes as II i were
mAsquerading when l catch a picture
Il Of myself in some printed description.
81 In between things that l have to do
& q q public officer ] never think of my
self as the president Of the United
States, because I never have had any
/. sense OF being identified with that
office. S, i Is
II feel like person appointed for
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