Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-03
Cheered, Jeered by World, Wilson
Like Lincoln in Bitter Trials

in his Office walking around the desk
waiting for clients, so he abandoned
legal career and went to Johns
! Hopkins University, at Baltimore. for
w, post !Sads course in letters tiers.
book. Congressional Government" a
/ study in American politics. 1t evoked
offers OF professorship at Bryn Mawr
and Wesleyan and won recognition
at home 1a and abroad al i'd The young man
American political system in 1888
found himself to deal with them
later. Having written in a .depre-
| autocracy in American Presidents. he
lived to hear himself called the great
est autocrat of them all and to see
a resolution declaring his office va
| cant on those grounds introduced and
succeshvely. Mr.. Wilson became
professor of history and political
economy at Bryn Mawr and at Wes-
leyan University and later professor
OF jurisprudence and political econ
omy at Princeton. where. subsequent
! ly. he was made head OF that instt-
! tuition. Meanwhile, Prof. Wilson had
gained high reputation as writer.
Some of his works. with the date Of
their production, were as follows o,ss;
and Practical Politics" $3.50. "Di-
Washington" Us9S), "A History Of
the American People" (1s02), "Consti-
tutionai Government in the United
stSsss s %sn comes nss Life to H,ms seSs
1915), ."On Being Human" G916),
AN Old Master and Other Political
Essays and Mere Literature and
Other Essays" were among his ear
lier writings. His state papers. notes
to belligerent governments and ad-
C0nRra9S
volumes.
Given Honorary Degrees.
The honorary degree of doctor Of
laws was bestowed upon him by
Wake Forest College Uss7). Tulane
University 1s93), Johns Hopkins
I902), Brown University (1s03). Har-
ward University t1sO7), Williams COL
lege (190sl and Dartmouth College
090s). Yale made him doctor of
| literature in 1901.
Life was a. pretty we'll settled affair
for him while he was president OF
Princeton. Its great oaks. shaded
lawns and historic halls furnished
| the settings in which Mr.. Wilson did
much Of the literary work which
| later was. to sttract the world. He
probably had little thought of being
| snatched into the maelstrom of poll
| tics and war. He drew some public
| attention in the fight for preserva-
| ton of democratic Ideals at the uni
| versity, 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
Governor of New Jersey in a political
situation about which many interest
| ing things have been said and denied
with equal fervor, he was elected on
the democratic ticket. and imme-
a round of combat which attracted
the attention of the country. In the
Jersey legislature he found the young
lawyer, Joseph p. Tumulty, who be-
came his private secretary and biog-
rapher.
Charged With Radicalism,
Political opponents charged Gov.
Wilson with radicalism. but he drove
his program through. The outstand-
ing legislation was the seven sisters
laws" series of bills drafted under
his direction which dealt with trusts.
New Jersey up to that time. because
Of its corporate laws, had been
called a rendezvous for monopolies.
Gov. Wilson's nomination for the
presidency at the democratic con-
vention of 1912 in Baltimore was one
Dpf the dramatic spectacles Of Ameri.
sSan political history. It was a battle
royal which brought him victory
tor rxl lta.r So IL. - z-