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SEE WILSON ACTIVE
IN 1924 CAMPAIGN
Considers Himself Leader Oh Inc
progressive" Element In me
Democratic Party. Wet ireho
In Record

Washington. Dec. 11-Talk Oh
,bird marty and .'progressive' plocs
has hitherto been confined to us e.
foot on the Republican party and mas
been looked upon really as a reNoil
inside that party, but there Is eIely
reason to believe the pfosressitI
movement will soon break out III 'he
ranks of the Democratic party
Woodrow Wilson's recent decial t"l
to take an active part In Deniocrali1
notifies or rather, his rapid physlcai
recnneration which has enabled MS
MUSICIANS to permit him to dig IN
70 his rrespondence and see callers
ic significant of a change in the mooo
of massive silence which has charac-
terized the Democratic party during
the recent cutlery of the RepuoHcah
..nroeressiyes'' for new deal III
politics.
Mr.. Wilson is not by any means
the active man he was Wnen fresi-
dent Probably he never Will be. But
he is physically stronger TO-DAY IMAM
at any time since his collapse. he IL
capable of at least two hours OF sus-
tanned work every day and he taxes
advantage of it to write many let
ters and to see people. He has peeh
seeing an average of one caller DAY
and. some days has had many more
Most of them have been old friends
hit some have brought him 1nfoflha-
ton on the political state OF allaiIs
Everyone has gone away win the
impression the mind or Woodro"
Wilson is as alert today as 1t was
when he was in the Presidency ano
that his reasoning powers are d.
clear as they were in the days OF wal
time chaos!
The former President naturah9
holds close to his heart the lnterna'
tional situation, but he is much toe
good a political diagnostlclan TO lg
more the wave OF sentiment on 40
nestle affairs which made Itself man
ifest in the primaries and the elec
tions this year. The Democratic
party under his leadership prided 1t
self on the name progressive MI
Wilson won his nomination at BAL
timore in 1912 because he was
progressive" and because the Dem
ocrats. too, must offer a progressive
TO win the seemingly popular supper
lndL was dl tii1I TINY ~ 80
Bull Moose movement.
If history is repeating itself ant
if the progressive" bloc of today /:
endeavoring to capture control OF the
Republican party now as 1t tried II
1912, and failing in that helped u
form Il third party, then the Demo
Gratis must chart course which VII
PUT them in progressive channels
too.
Woodrow Wilson, considers him
self the leader of his party and the
spokesman of the progressive ele
ments in democracy which he feel:
have dominated in the last elgh
years. Certainly the Wilson forces
namely. combination of Palmer and
MeAdoo men-were sufficient to con
troll the last Democratic convention
when the platform was under dis
ssngssaaaeaa I'd III TIE Wr1soh view may
still be said to be predominant in the
Democratic party
Now here comes the most import
ant question of all-prohibition
The former President knows what a
part il plays in American politics
and probably agrees with President
<Harding's recent statement in his adj
dress to Congress that the matter has
by no means been cast out of politics,
but is playing a vital part in local
elections. Nj Wilson, it will be re-
called, voted the bill which would
have extended wartime prohibition
after the Armistice, but the "drys''
were ale to pass it in Congress over
his veto. He was bitterly assailed
for.this by the dry organizations.
His record on the prohibition ques
ton has not been what the drys
would like He started out in New
Jersey by insisting it was a moral
and not a political question and de-
clared for local option. He agreed
to wartime prohibition, or rather to
the making of 275 beer, chiefly be-
cause OF the need for conserving the
ingredients which were used in the
making of beer. And when the San
Francisco convention of the Dem
ocratic party was in session, there is
& well defined report that Mr.. Will
son sent beer plank to that city de-
spite<Mr. Bryan's known attitude on
prohibition and despite the feeling of