The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-11
ny. WORLD STRONGLY
EULOGIzES WILSON.

IUlUUILLO VlLtUNi
BELIEVES PEOPLE FORTUNATE
10 HAVE HIM AT HEAD OF
AFFAIRS IN PARLOUS TIMES.
= On the fiftieth anniversary of Lin
coins second inaugural, Woodrow
Wilson completes half his Presi-
Dental term.
These two years of the Wilson ad-
ministration have helped to make
more history than any other two
years since Lincoln. The coming
two years of the Wilson administra-
ton must inevitably be the most
mometous period that this country
has known since the Civil war.
It is q fact of enormous impor-
stance that this crisis finds in the
White House q President who is
completely master of himself. Being
master of himself. he is master Of
his party and of his administration.
There is no kitchen cabinet. There
are no back-stairs advisers. There
are no secret influences that pull
and sway the policies Of the Execa-
tive. No underground wires run
from the White House into Wall
Street or into the headquarters of
any political committee whatever.
Men may agree with Mr. Wilson or
disagree with him; they may like him
or they may dislike him; but every
body knows that he and he alone is
President. Everybody knows that
during the remaining rwo years OF
his term he and he alone will be
President.
A very unusual man, meet to cope
with q very unusual situation in the
affairs of mankind-a President who
in all his official relations displays
neither vanity, nor resentment, nor
anger nor personal ambition. If he
{ has friends, their friendship counts
nothing in the affairs of State. If he
has enemies, their enmity weighs
nothing in the balance of Govern
1 ment. He seeks neither to reward
@the one nor to punish the other.
4 ! So evenly does he hold the scales
that the members of the Diplomatic
Corps, with all their highly develop
ed facilities for obtaining informa-
ton, have never been able to learn
where the Presidents personal SYM
pathies lie in the great conflict that
is now devastating Europe. What
ever his individual opinions may be,
he has smothered them in the re-
sponsibilities Of his Office.
A. this period in their first term
most Presidents have been carefully
calculating their chances of renomi-
nation and reelection. Nobody
knows whether Mr. Wilson intends
to be candidate for reelection or
not. Not q member of his Cabinet,
not q member of Congress, can say
Of his own knowledge that the Pres
ident desires reelection or that he
would not refuses nomination. What
all Of them know is that the Presi-
dent would not stoop from principle
to win either denomination or a
reelection.
That is where his great strength
lies. That is where his great use
fuicess lies in this crisis. 1t is easy
to rattle the sabre. 1t is easy to
make the welkin ring. 1t is easy to
be spectacular and sensational. and
theatrical. 1t is easy to be dems-
gogue. 1t is easy to juggle with
the fate of a Nation when no man
can foresee what the next day will
bring forth. But it is not easy to
be calm. restrained and judicial. It
lis noteasy to face every responsibility
without prejudice and without pas
sion. 1t is not easy to hew straight
to the line of first principles, re-
.gardless of applause or censure or