The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-02-07

bike many another illustrious
srican, Woodrow Wilson, whom to-
| the Nation and the whole world
Ioorely mourns, began life in a par
400 home at Staunton, Virginia,
f'smber 2S, 1885," said Rev. H. L.
fhols. pastor of the Centenary
I,hodist Church, in his address be-
h the Rotary Club, Tuesday noon.
|uis father was Rev. Joseph X.
,son a Presbyterian preacher OF
10 local note. His mother was
laughter of. DR.. Thomas Woodrow
Ioted Presbyterian divine in Ohio.
IRON his Scotch-Irish ancestry
his austere Presbyterian training
inherited and acquired that alert
of mind, that high idealism, that
safastness OF purpose, that firm
of character which eventually
10 him one of the outstanding fig
in Americas glorious history.
oven world figure in those
Rrts and international politics that
he day will achieve the high ideals
! world democracy and a harmoni-
fellowship among the nations of
TN now unfortunately actuated by
understandings, jealousies and
Efe.
At the age of II he entered the col
a of Davidson, n. c. but illness
npelled his leaving before a year
finished. He later entered
nceton and before his graduation
attained prominence among his
les He was much interested in
science of government and often
mart in the debates on the politi-
uuestions of the day. After grad
ion he took the law course at the
yersity of Virginia and in 1882
ned an office in Atlanta, Georgia,
ere as Mr.. Wilson himself said, "he
ne out the rug in his Office walking
ind the desk waiting for clients" ;"
abandoned the legal profession and
k course in letters at John Hap
University. He became profess
of history and political economy
|Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan Univer-
later, professor of Jurisprudence
political economy at Princeton,
later still was made the head of
h famous University.
Here the conditions were ideal for
ployment of his literary abilities
his ready pen gave to the public
humber of historical and political
tks that attracted wide and favor
attention. Little did he suspect
the policies and theories thought
in the study would ever become
rative in his own personal prac-
but a strange political situation
New Jersey politics, made him the
didate for Governor, and he was
cted with a plurality of 49,056 in
State which two years before had
IN Republican by S2,776 He kept
prediction pledges, oyerthrew
party bosses, kept faith with the
pile, enacted many reforms, and
med a national reputation for being
high minded, fearless, progressive
tesman. The national Democratic
fty recognized in Mr.. Wilson presi-
htial timber, and at the national
pyention at Baltimore he defeated
hmp Clark Of Missouri. Speaker of
House of Representatives, after
ballots. The split in the Republi-
party, with Taft and Roosevelt as
hdidates, made his election an as
PED fact and on March 4th, 1913
Rodrow Wilson was sworn in as the
p President of the United States.
he had been the dominant factor
$the affairs of his State, he now be-
PIE the dominant figure in govern
PIT of the Nation. He broke pre-
tents right and left, no doubt in
he cases, for the better. For the
\ time in a century and more, a
fsident stood in person before the
assembly of the legislative bod
OF our Nation and delivers his
|sidential message, His political
(nents accuse him of being a dicta-
TO his cabinet and to Congress as
l. at any rate his political sagacity.
eloquent and convincing speech,
lndomitable will, pushed through
measures regardless of the oppo-
on OF friends or foes.
The World War made Mr.. Wilson
commanding figure in the eyes of
entire world Tho nracidant of