The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-04
Picture Drawn

In an intimate pen picture of the
President drawn by himself before
| the National Press Club in Wash
i ington, Mr.. Wilson once said:
when | think of the number of
men who are looking to me as the
represent ative of party, with the
hope for all varieties of salvage from
! the things they are struggling with,
in the midst of it, it makes me
trcmblc. 1t makes me tremble with u
sense of my own inadequacy and
| weakness and if | seem circumspcct
it is because am diligently trying
not to make any colossal blunders."
Princeton, with its great oaks, its
shaded lawns and historic halls, fur
nished the setting in which Mr.. Will
son did much of the literary work
which, later commanded the atten-
ton of the world. His family life
was ideal and serene. Surrounded
by his wife and three daughters
Margaret, Jessie and Eleanor-the
fierce Controversy which ragged over
the preservation of democratic ideals
at the University disturbed him but
little.
Heretofore he had not been regard
commonly been reported that the
President of Princeton, never a
wealthy man. was contemplating re-
tircment upon Il teachers pension in
1910. In September Of that year
he was nominated by the Democrats
for Governor of New Jersey. Elected
the following November he served
until March. 1913, when he resigned
to take up his duties at Washington.
The policy of the new administra-
ton was outlined in one of the brief
est inaugural addresses ever made to
Congress. among other innovations,
Mr.. Wilson announced policy of
"pitilcss publicity" and, until May.
1916, gave semi weekly audiences to
the Washington newspaper cores
pondcnts. He said the White House
would be wide open but correspon-
dents were not seen by him during
the war
When the European conflict burst
upon the world in all its fury, Pres
ident Wilson in an address to his
fellow countrymen counselled them
to be strictly neutral. Excrting
every effort to avert the dawning
of the United States into the macl-
strom, for nearly three years he drew
upon himself the bitterest criticism
Of some of his staunchest friends.
About his time, speaking of the ex-
ample of America in regard to peace,
he said:
There is such thing as a man
being too proud to fight. There is
such thing as a natiop being so right
that 1T does not need to convince
others by force that it is right"
Resentment Felt
Popular resentment against peace
at any price was raising in America.
Fighting Europe ridiculed> NJ. Will
sons policy but later accepted the
explanation of his friends that he
was manoeuvering for delay, that the
United States was, not prepared. to
take big part in the struggle, that
the nation was not unitedly for war
by reasons Of it's diverse population
and divided sentiment.
A tragic moment in the Presidents
life came, when, sitting at the bed
side of his dying wife, he penned
message to the European powers
suggesting peaceful settlement.
Mrs. Wilson died on Aug. 6, 1914,
and the President took her body to,
her girhood home in Rome, Georgia,
for burial. The family circle had
been broken only short time pre-
viously by the marriage of two of
the Presidents daughters, Jessie and
Eleanor, one to Frances Bowes Sayre
and the other to William G. McAdoo,
then Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs.