The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
Born in a Parsonage, Woodrow Wilson Rose
Gradually from Lawyer to Governor
end President.
LED NATION THROUGH GREAT CRISIS
Niche in Fame VIII Depend on His Leadership of
America and of the World in the
Great World War.

Congressional Government" study
| in American politics, II evoked offers
of professorships ct Bryn Mawr and
| Wesleyan and won recognition at
home and abroad. The young man who
wrote of the defects of the American
political system in 1888 found him
| self to deal with them later. Having
written in deprecatory tone of the
tendency toward autocrecy in Amer
lean presidents he lived TO hear him
self called the greatest autocrat Of
them all and to see resolution de-
claring his office vacant on those
grounds introduced and tabled in the
senate.
Law in College Work.
SUCCESSFULLY, Mr.. Wilson became
professor Of history and political eco
nomy at Bryn Mawr and at Wesleyan
University and later professor of
jurisprudence and political economy
at Princeton where, subsequently, he
was made head of that institution.
Meanwhile, Professor Wilson had
gained high reputation as writer.
Some of his works, with the date of
their production, were as follows:
''The Embellishments Of Historical
end Practical Politics." (18s9); "Di-
vision and Reunion" (1893); George
Washington" (89e); "a History of the
American People," (1e02); "Consti4
tutional Government In the United
States" (t9O8); "Free Life," f1o1s);
"When a Man Comes TO HIMSELF"
fte15), "On Being Human" (1916)I
San Old Master AID Other Political
Essays" and "Mere Literature and
Other Essays" were among his earli-
er writings. His state papers, notes
to belligerent governments and adj
dresses to congress, would filr many
volumes.
The honary degree of Doctor of
Laws was bestowed upon him by Wake
TeresS College (1sS7)s Tulane Univer-
sity (iS93); Johns Hopkins (1902);
Brown University (19O3)s Harvard
University t19oT); Williams College
(1908)I and Dartmouth College (1ee9),
Yale made him.'a Doctor Of Litera-
ts,re in 1901,
| President OF Princeton.
Life was q pretty we'll settled afA
| Fair for him while he was president
of Princeton, It's great oaks, shaded
! lawns and historic halls, furnished the
settings in which Mr.. Wilson did much
of the literary work which 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 DEM
ocratic ideals at the university, but
he lived the life of 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
governor Of New Jersey in political
situation about which many interest
ing things have been said and denied
with equal fervor, he was elected on
the Democratic ticket, and immedi-
ately took on the state bosses" for a
round of combat which attracted the
attention of the country. In the Jer-
sey legislature he found the young
! lawyer, Joseph P. Tumulty who be-
Cdiile MS private SSCEetdAy ana DlO-
grapher.
Charged as Radical.
! Political opponents charged Cover
nor Wilson with radicalism but he
drove his program through. The out
standing legislation was the Seven
sisters laws" series of bills draft
cd under his direction which dealt
ha+
time, because of its corporate laws,
had been called rendezvous for
monopolies.
! Governor Wilson's nomination for
the presidency at the Democratic con-
vention of 1912 in Baltimore was one
/ of the dramatic spectacles of Amer
lean political history. 1t was a bat
tie royal which brought him victory
after more than 40 ballots.
| Champ Clark, the venerable and De-
loved speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, led Wilson in the early
| voting-in fact polled a majority of
! the delegates. For the first time in
! history Democratic national conven-
| tion refused to give the necessary
| two-thirds to a candidate who had
/ gotten a majority. William Jennings
| Bryan, himself the nominee of three
previous conventions, led the fight
/ against Clark in one of the bitterest
! contests ever conducted in American
| politics 1t broke Clark's heart-he
never forgave Wilson or Bryan-and
ne opposed Wilson's policies in con-
gress repeatedly. Clark knew he lost
not only the nomination, but the
presidency. for the contest between
Teft and Roosevelt assured such a
rift in the Republican vote that the
election of a Democrat was all but
inevitable.
The convention realized this for the
man who nominated Clark declared:
We meet not only to choose can
didate but to choose a president"
Gets Democratic Nomination.
At any rate, Woodrow Wilson got
the nomination and won the election
with 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt
got 50 and Taft got s. He came to the
White House on March d, 1918, signal
icing the return of the democracy to
power asteG successive defeats of 16
/ year