Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-04-01
PRESIDENT ON SELF
WILSON DRAWS INTIMATE WORD
PICTURE OF HIMSELF AT MA
TfoNAL PRESS CLUB.
POSE OF DIGNITY is IRKsoME
Chief Executive Tells Newspaper Men
Of Washington How Difficult II Is
for Him to Imagine Himself
Head Of the Nation.

READ OF the Nation.
Washington. D. c.. March 23.-Teii-
Ing them in frank, conversational way
how he felt as president of the United
States, Woodrow Wilson unbosomed
himself to the members of the Ma
tional Press club at Washington FRI
day. He told how difficult it was for
him to imagine himself as the chief
executive, with the formal amenities
Of the position. and how he had strug-
gled to be as free as the ordinary in
dividual without the restraints Of his
Office.
Il was an intimate picture of Wood
row Wilson-the man-drawn by him
self, on the occasion OF the house
warming" at the Press clubs new
quarters
The president did not intend to
have his remarks reported, but later,
at the request OF the club, the speech
was made public.
Wilson, as RE Sees Himself.
Il was just thinking OF my sense Of
sonfusion OF identity sometimes when
read articles about myself" the
president said. Il have never read
an article about myself In which /
recognized myself, and ] have come to
have the impression that ! must be
some kind of a fraud. because think
= great many OF these articles are
written in absolute good faith.
II tremble to think of the variety
and falseness in the impressions !
make-and It is being borne In on me
so that It may change my very dispo-
sition--that am cold and removed
person who has thinking machine
inside which he adjusts to the cir
cumstances-~whic he does not allow
10 be moved by any winds Of affec-
ton or emotion OF any kind-but turns
like cold searchlight on anything
that is presented to his attention and
makes Il work.
Feels Responsibility keenIy.
II am not aware OF having any de-
tachable apparatus inside of me. On
the contrary. II we're to interpret my
self, | would say that my constant
embarrassment is to retain the emo
lions that are inside of me-
You may not believe it. but some
times feel like a fire from a far from
extinct volcano, aud If the lava does
not seem TO spill over 1t is because
you are not high enough to see into
the basin and see the caldron boil. Be
cause. truly. gentlemen, In the posi-
tion which | occupy there is a sort OF
Il do not know how else to express
Il than to say--passionate sense OF
being connected with my fellow men
in a peculiar relationship of RESPONSE.
bility OF Office. but God knows there
are enough things In this world that
need to be corrected.
Fear He'll Disappolnt People.
81 have mixed first and last with
all sorts and conditions of men-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 or the number of men
who are looking TO me as the repre-
sentative OF party. with the hope
for all varieties OF salvation from the
things they are struggling 10 the midst
OF, II makos me tremble.
at makes me tremble not only with
sense of my own lnadequacy and
weakness. hut as II were shaken by
the very things that are shaking
them. and 81 | seem cireumspect il is
because / am so diligently trying not
20 make any colossal blunders.
IF you just calculated the number
OF hlunders a fellow can make in
"a hours II he is not careful and II
he does not listen more than he talks.
you would see something of the feel
ing that have.
Always Eager TO Get Advice.
Il was amused the other day at
remark that Senator Newlands made
had read him the trtyt message that
! was to deliver to congress some ten
days before delivered 1t, and never
stop 'doctoring things of that kind
until the day have to deliver them.
when he heard II read to congress
he said: ! think 1t was better than
It was when you read it to me said:
Senator. there is one thing which do
not think you understand not only
use all the brains have. but all can
borrow. and | have borrowed q lot
since | read 1t to you first
Often Feels He's Masqueradlns.
u really feel sometimes as II we're
masauerading when l catch picture
Of myself in some printed description
In between things that have to do
as public officer never think of my,
self as the president OF the United
States. because never have had any