The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-11-16
PRESIDENT MAKES
PATHETIC FIGURE
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IMPRESSIVE PICTURE OF STRICK.
EN- EXECUTIVE. {.
Seems Like A Great Soldier
Stricken in Epochal
Battle.

to President Wilson last week, HAM
ilton Holt, leader of the group, is
,led 2 statement which shocked the
e,amtrv because of it's description of
Mr.. Wilson's appearance and defect
ed manner.
Five other members of the delega-
ton were asked subsequently to de-
scribe the visit and the president.
Their statements as published in the
New York Times, We're as follows:
Mrs. Schuyler N. Warren OF New
York:
''I am not young. have had
MANY solemn moments in my life, but
/ can assure you that, when we stood
in the presence of President Wilson
in that room at the White House, l
consider it the most solemn moment
in nv life. The men with US stood
. with tears in their eyes in the pres
ence of this great man, stricken,
aged, worn, and yet with not line
in his face that showed bitterness,
rancor or malice. He had but one
thought, and dream, in his heart.
There was no bitterness left toward
his enemies. He seemed far away
from the vanity and folly OF the
world, as if he were just living to
see the ideal accomplished.
eff the people who revile HIM
could just see him as he sat in his
wheel chair-if he could be trans
ported to Carnegie Hall just as he is
TODAY for the whole world to see
a nan suffering, aged, and yet burn
inc with zeal for this great ideal, |
don't believe he would have an ene-
my in the world.
"The change that l saw, the thing
that crushed me so, was to see how
President Wilson, from cbmpara-
lively young man as I saw him last,
had been converted into an old, old
man-not broken, but old! That to
me is the tragedy and cruel thing.
AS he sat there, he seemed to me to
represent all that is highest In Am
/. erieaT life. in the American charac-
ter. 1t was tragic in the sense that
you saw there a man who had so zsuf-
fered, and glorious that America hac
produced such man.
Like Page in History.
st. seemed like a page in history
The delegation had walked through
the streets to the White House sc
quietly, through the gates that had
been opened for US, and with; ou1
hearts beating high had been ushered
into the room where President Will
son was sitting, and had stood listen
ING to him as he read his message
to the country. / can only say as
one of the men said when we came
out, that it seemed as if we had been
present at-some great religious scere
mony, that it was holy ground
TIL Rev. Dr.. Arthur J. Brown OF
New York:
Il was shocked by the president:
appearance. | expected, Of course
to find that his illness had resulted
in some abatement tf his former
physical strength, but l had been lee
by public reports to believe that he
had regained large proportion OF
his virility. Instead Of this, we
found broken man, his face wa
drawn and haggard, his eyes Were
dull, his voice was low and weak
It was pathetic to see that once
splendidlv alert and vigorous man 81
completely shattered. We galne'
the impression, TOO, that he was no
only broken in health, but that n
was hcartbrolsen over the humillat
ing position into which partisan an'
personal enmities had brought ou
country, delaying the realization o
that great cansummation Of the lea
que of nations for which he toiled ST
hard and sacrificed so much.
y am sure that the American peo
pie do moi realize. as | had not be
fore, tina, the president Of the Unitet
States is Il stricken man. As | stoo'
there within four feet of him, ha'
All n1cxprcssibly solemn feeling tina
the. words that he was speaking nigh
be his farewell words to his country
He aust know that near the END o.
his second term and in his enfeeble'
heahh his public career is drawing tt
It's close. | think his address shoult
he Interpreted in the light of thu
fact. More than once his voice chok
ed. Especially when he referred tt
The soldier boys and the mothers o:
those. who had fallen in battle. i