Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-12
President s Part
In The Campaign
BY w. s. MANN.
81 W. 5. MANN.
copyright, 1920, by The Washing
ton Star.l


copyright, 1920, by The Washing
ton Star.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-PresI-
dent Wilson is not expected to DO
any speech making in behalf of the
/ Democratic ticket this fall. but he is
not going to sit idly by during one
Of the most p~ortentious campaigns
of recent years and see his fellow
Democrats get all the excitement.
And while Governor Cox and Frank
lin d. Roosevelt are jumping from
one rostrum to another the White
House will echo to the click Of the
Presidents typewriter in the inter-
est of the ticket.
1t is probable that the chief Will
sonian aid to the campaign will be
in the form of letters, and the very
weight of his position al chief exec
utive will insure them the widest
circulation. 1t Is probable that
even now some of his ideas have
been put down in a rough draft, but
nothing ever leaves the Presidents
hands until 1t has been carefully re-
read, and every phrase and sentence
properly balanced and polished to
literary perfection.
Those in daily contact with affairs
at the White House hardly expect
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during the campaign, except as cas-
ual glimpses of him may be caught
as he goes riding or as he reviews
scme parade from the east wing of
the White House. During the
summer he has taken two or three
short motor rides a week, but very
recently has taken to riding in a VIC
toria carriage behind a pair Of hand
some bays.
Indications are that the President
is very sensitive about his condition,
and although on several occasions
he has allowed newspaper p~hotogra-
pliers to make pictures of him as his
carriage or automobile was leaving
the White House, the secret service
men always have shooed all motion
picture operators away.
When his health was normal the
President was a consistent patron of
a local vaudeville theatre, and the
old-timers on the circuit were ac-
customed to look for him in his IA
vorite m~eZzanine box. but though he
goes out for rides frequently, he has
not been to a theatre in the last
tweve months, and it does not ap-
pear probable that he will attend a
playhouse for some time.
The White House remains the
storm center of rumors of all kinds,
most of which are SO far-fetched as
to be laughable. One of the latest
is that the President as soon as his
term expires is going to return to
Europe. In the early part of the
summer a new story cropped up ev-
cry day as to where the President
intended to spend his vacation, in
spite of the repeated statement at
the White House that he would re-
main in Washington. These stories
stopped only when Rear Admiral
Cary Grayson, his physician, left for
a short vacation in the Blue Ridge
mountains and Saratoga Springs.
for then it was apparent that the
President was not going away.
1t is generally thought that the
Presidents aversion to appearing in
public since his illness last fall is In
some measure responsible for his
continued stay in Washington, and
his physicians have said repeatedly
he was able to travel If he desired
to do so.
Through audiences with party
leaders and meetings with the cabi-
net every Tuesday, as well as by
means of the newspapers. President
Wilson keeps in close touch with
developments of the campaign. and
he contributes to it will
be up to the minute. His chief in
terest of course, is in the issue of
the League of Nations and though
he may devote some attention to
other aspects of the political battle.
it is as an exponent of the league
that his best efforts will be put
forth.
The Presidents attitude toward
the Polish Russian situation will be
closely watched by his political
and foes alike, for it will
a most important bearing on
the nations foreign policy and cam
not escape both censure and COM
in a presidential year.
This question will have an indirect
bearing on the campaign, its weight
on how seriously the ad-
vance of the Bolsheviki threatens
to upset nee more the peace of
Western Europe and the world at
large.