Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-03-27
PRESIDENT ON self
WILSON DRAWS INTIMATE WORD
PICTURE OF HIMSELF AT MA
TloNAL PRESS CLUE,
POSE OF DIGNITY is IRksoME
Chief Executive Tells Newspaper Men
Of Washington How Difficult 1t 10
for Him to imagine Himself
Head of the Nation.

Washington, d. c., March 23.-TeIl
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 FIJI
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.
1t 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 20
have his remarks reported, but later
at the request of the club. the speech
was made public.
Wilson, as He Sees Himself.
II was just thinking Of my sense OF
confusion Of identity sometimes when
I read articles about myself" the
president said. II have never read
an article about myself in which
recognized myself, and have cone to
have the impression that / must be
some kind Of a fraud, because think
q 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 1t may change my very dispo-
sition-that l am cold and removed
person who has a thinking machine
inside which he adjusts to the cir
cumstances-which he does not allow
to be moved by any winds of afec-
ton or emotion of any kind-but turns
like cold searchlight on anything
that is presented to his attention and
makes r. work.
Feels Responsibility keenIy.
81 am not aware Of having any de-
tschable apparatus inside Of me. On
the contrary, if were to interpret my
self, / would say that my constant
embar1 assment is to retain the emo"
lions that are inside of me.
You may not believe it, but some
times feel like fire from a far from
extinct volcano, and If the lava does
not seem to spill over it Is because
you are not high enough to see into
the basin and see the caldron boil. Be-
cause, truly, gentlemen, in the posi-
ton which l occupy there is sort OF
Il do not know how else to express
1t 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 DisappoInt People.
II 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 Of 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 in the midst
Of it makes me tremble
1T makes me tremble not only with
q sense OF my own inadeQuacy and
weakness, but as If were shaken by
the very things that are shaking
them, and If seem circumspect it is
because am SO diligently trying not
10 make any colossal blunders.
IF you just calculated the number
OF blunders a fellow can make In
"a hours IL he is not careful and If
he does not listen more than he talks,
you would see something OF the feel
ing that I have.
Always Eager to Get Advice.
Il was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Newlands made.
had read him the trust message that
was to deliver to congress some ten
days before l delivered 1t, and l never
stop 'doctoring' things of that kind
until the day have to deliver them.
When he heard it read to congress
he said: 4 think it was better than
it was when you read it to me. / said:
'Sr NJ, there is one thing which do
not think you understand. I not only
use all the brains have, but all can
borrow, and l have borrowed a lot
since I read 1t to you first
often Feels He's Masqueradna.
Il really feel sometimes as il were
masQueradtng when / catch a picture
OF myself in some printed description.
"In between things that have to do
as public officer l never think of my
self as the president of the United
States, because l never have had any
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