Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-09

1 ble with sense of my own inadequa cy and weakness and if seem circum spect it is because I am so diligentl, trying not to make any colossal blun ders."
 A curious fact of Mr. Wilson's ca reer was that when young man h, wrote an article under the name o Thomas w. Wilson" in which he de preciated the tendency toward auto cracy in American Presidents. Thi was in 1S79 Thirty-eight years later on the floor of the United States Sen ate, Lawrence Y. Sherman, a Republi can Senator from Illinois, savagely as sailed MT Wilson as an "autocrat' and offered a resolution declaring his office vacant The resolution was kill ed.
 Princeton, with it's great oaks, its shaded lawns and historic halls furn ished the setting in which MT. Wilson d later commanded the attention of the world. His family life was ideal and serene. Surrounded by his wife and three daughters-Margar Jessie ano Eleanor-the fierce controversy which ragged over the preservation of demo cratic ideals at the University disturb ed him but little.
 Heretofore he had not been regard ed as politician. Indeed, it had com monly been reported that the Presi dent of Princeton, never wealthy man, was contemplating retirement uI on a teachers pension in 1910 h September of that year he was nomi mated by the Democrats for Governor of New Jersey. Elected the following November he served until March l 1913, when he resigned to take up his duties in Washington.
 It was a speech by Colonel George Harvey early in the Spring of 1912 at Savannah, Ga, that first launched the name of Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency Boombs in other States quickly followed and soon the Ney Jersey State Democratic commit tee indorsed him for the nomination Shrewd Democrats saw the war clouds gathering between advocates of Pres ident Taft and former President RoOSe welt; they measured the possibilities of a divided Republican vote which would let a National Democratic tick jority poll. One of the Democratic leaders went to the Baltimore con vention saying: We gather this year not only to nominate a candidate, but to elect a President"
 William Jennings Bryan, three times the nominee of his party, wielded still the power of leadership. Bryar men dominated the convention. The NebraSkan called upon all the aSpi rants to decline the support of socall ed Wall street" delegates. Wilson was emphatic in his refusal to accept such votes. Bryan and his followers threw all their support to the New Jersey governor, notwithstanding tha1 a few months previously Wilson haC written a friend expressing tLe hope that MT. Bryan might be knocked ln to a cooked hat
 Meanwhile the Republican Natlona Convention split in Chicago ana the Progre ssive party formed with Colohe Roosevelt as it's candidate. DenOcra tic leaders were sanguine of success Champ Clark, Speaker of the Houss of Representatives an avowed candl date for the Democratic Presidentla nomination went to Baltimore, it i: said. with more than majority O. th' votes pledged to him.
 r.ue Democratic convention neve had failed to give candidate wht had a majority of the necessary two thirds to nominate Clark got his ma iority and then, another political mi racle" took place. The convention re fused the necessary two-thirds requir ed by the democratic party. MT. Bry an took the floor as the supporter 0 Governor Wilson The convention ral into it's second week; tie swelterin, days of a Southern midsummer wear jed the delegates, but the battle con tinued. Wilson finally was nominated The following November he was cleo ted. The country had a Democrat fo President for the first time in sixteel years-the first time since Grove Cleveland.
 The President-elect, in designatin his Cabinet, named MT. Bryan as Sec retary of State, a position the Nebras kan filled until June 1915 resignin because of differences growing out o the war. With the exception also o the Attorney Generalship, and the Sc retary of War the original Cabinet re main the same for practically ali o MT. Wilson's two terms.
 The policy of the new Administra tion was outlined in one of the brie est inaugural addresses ever made t Congress. Tn it MT. Wilson indicate L1s so fo reform the currency system. Tn President maintained that the Repub lican protective tariff was a breede of trusts" and that the National ban system which had not been change since the Civil War, gave Wall stree financiers too much power. Anon other innovations, Mi. Wilson armour