The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
Wilson, Rising From 0bscurity Yielded Greatest World Power Of Any Man Of His Generation

man. They were married in 1885 and had three daughters, Margaret, the eldest who did not marry; Jessie, who became the wife of Francis Howes Sayre, and Eleanor, who became the wife of William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury during her fathers ad ministration and later a presidential aspirant
 Wilson once said that as young lawyer he wore out the rug in his of- flee walking around the desk waiting career and went to Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore for a post graduate course in letters. While there he published his first book ''Congres- sional Government" a study in Amer ican politics. It evoked offers of pro- fessorships at Bryn Mawr and Wes- leyan and won recognition at home and abroad. The young man who wrote the defects of the American political system in 1883 found himself to deal with them later. Having written in a deprecatory tone of the tendency to- ward autocracy in American presidents he lived to hear himself called the greatest autocrat of them all and to see resolution declaring his office vacant on those grounds introduced and tabled in the Senate.
 Successively, Wilson became profess sor of history and policial economy at Bryn Mawr and at Wesleyan uni versity and later professor of juris- prudence and political economy at Princeton where, subsequently,, he was made head of that institution. Mean. while, Professor Wilson had gained high reputation as a writer. Some of his works, with the date of their pro- duction, were as follows: ''The State Elements of Historical and. Practical Politics. (1sS7) Division and Re union (1S9Sl; George Washington" (1S96); "A History of the American People" (1902); Constitutional Gov ernment in the United States" (190S); Free Life" Q913) When Man Comes to Himself (1915) "On Being Human" 0916); An Old Master and Other Political Essays" and Mere Literature and Other Essays" were among his earlier writings. His state ments and addresses to Congress would fill many volumes.
 Received Honorary Degrees (.
 The honorary degree of doctor of laws was bestowed upon him by Wake Forest college (1SS7), Tulane uniyer- sity (1S93), Johns Hopkins (19O2), Brown university (1903), Harvard university (1907, Williams college (19OS), and Dartmouth college (19O0). Yale made him a doctor of literature in 1901.
 Life was pretty we'll settled affair for him while he was president of Princeton. It's great oaks, shaded lawns and historic halls, furnished the settings in which Wilson did much of the literary work when later was to attract the world. He probably had little thought of being snatched into the maelstrom of politics and war. He drew some public attention in the fight for preservation of democratic ideals at the university, but he lived the life of a family man on small pay and as late as 1910 was contemplating retiring on a teachers pension.
 That year the inexorable force of events came into evidence. The tide which sweeps on to fortune" began to rise about him. Nominated for gov ernor of New Jersey in a political sit uation about which many interesting things have been said and denied with equal fervor, he was elected on the democartic ticket. and immediately took on the state bosses for n round of combat which attracted the atten- tion of the country. In the Jersey legis- lature he found the young lawyer, Jo- seph P. Tumulty, who became his pri- vate secretary and biographer.
 Political opponents charged Governor Wilson with radicalsm, but he drove his program through. The outstand- ing legislation was the seven sister, laws" a series of bills drsfted under his direction which dealt with trusts. New Jersey up to that time. because of its corporate laws. had been called rendezvous for monopolies.
 Governor Wilson's nomination for the presidency al the democratic con vention of 1912 in Baltimore was one of the dramatic spectacles of American political history. It was 4 battle royal which brought him victory after more than 10 ballots.
 Champ Clark. the venerable and be- loved speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, led Wilson in the early vot- ing--in fact, poled majority of the l "a n Nn