The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-08-04

Were Minister'S Former Was a
\Lawyer and Became a Teach
er: Latter Was a Teacher and
Became a Walking
and Golf Favorite Forms Of
Exercise.
"HERE is much that is similar in
the lives Of the Republican and
Democratic candidates for the
presidency. Searching their
lives. it is remarkable how closely they
resemble one another in many of the
points which have guided them and
nodded their lives.
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staun-
ton. Va. OF Dec. %. 1856. the son Of
Joseph r. and Jessie Woodrow Will
son. The stock is Scotch Irish. The
-. early years of his life We're spent in
South Carolina and Georgia. where his
father, q minister of the Presbyterian
church. had charges. and at seventeen
he was sent to Davidson college. Two
Years later he vent north to enter
Princeton and was graduated in 1879.
At college he was a prime favorite
with his felloWs-not o~verstudious. as
II may judge from his rank of forty
first in a class of 122
From Princeton Wilson went to the
University of Virginia. There he
studied law for one year. From Vir-
ginia Wilson went to Atlanta and there
sought to exc out a living by selling
his knowledge of law to clients. The
clients did not come-not altogether to
Wilson'S dismay. for he was not inter
ested in the practice of law. but in its
principles-and a year later found him
at Johns Hopkins university. In 1885
he published his book, Congressional
Conveniently Study of Government
by Committed" This is now largely
used as a textbook in colleges and
graduate schools in this country.
Wilson's Two Marriages.
In the summer of 1885, just before
taking up his work as professor at
Bryn Mawr, he married Miss Ellen
Louise Arson of Savannah. Mrs. Will
son died at the White House Aug. G.,
1914. and the president married Dec.
is, 1915. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait of
Washington. The president has three
daughters : Miss Margaret Woodrow
Wilson. Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre and
Mrs. William Gibbs Mc.Adoo, wife of
the secretary of the treasury.
Wilson entered the faculty of Prince
ton university in 1890 and was made
professor of political economy and iu-
risprudence, later Of Jurisprudence and
politics. In 1902, upon the death of
the Rev. DR.. Francis l.. Patton. he was
elected president of Princeton univer-
sity. He was the first man not a cler-
Eyman to hold that office.
For eight years he served that uni
versity as its head and was constant
ly voted the most popular man on the
faculty, while his courses were voted
both difficult and popular.
From the presidency of Princeton
he became the nominee for governor of
New Jersey, being elected Nov.~S 1910.
The state had consistently been car
rled by he Republicans for sixteen
consecutive years before that election.
He advocated important reform legis-
lation. and it was embodied in he
state laws. Wilson carried to the peo-
pie his fight on Senator James Smith,
Jr.. the Democratic boss who aspired
to the senatorship. and defeated him.
Elected to Presidency.
In 1912, at the Democratic convention
In Baltimore, on the forty-siXth ballot
he was nominated by a vote of $50 TO
Champ Clark's 81. Then followed. the
election of Wilson, with a total vote
Of G,291, 77G. over Theodore Roosevelt,
with 4%,1O6,247, and William II. Taft,
with 3,4S1,119. He was the first Demo
cratic president to hold office since
Grover Cleveland left the White
House in 1897.
The presidents love of plain fun and
good stories is in itself a REPUTATION
OF the idea that he is a reserved, aus
tere scholar with aristocratic leanings.
Whether it was aboard a train. in the
smoking room of the steamer bound
for Bermuda. in the quiet of his study