Show OF THE G remarkable Carce the man who after gaining fanie fame as an educator and author became president and during the great war was the most moat powerful individual in the world 01 originator of the league of nations woodrow ivinson twenty el eighth alith president of the united of nt america wits was the most prominent world figure of the events growing out of tile world war tile most momentous of nil all ills place us as lil iii atory story will viii fix it cn only be coni conjectured courel ii lonii iiii dreda of placed falln nt at tile zenith ns as they placed the ex cx kulscor tit at the nadir the great war brought to the front many jnnny men whose names will live in hon honor or in the lust last analysis three men stand out wilson lloyd george orge of these three it wits wilson wo who held the eye cye wll wil sm tile human phenomenon of the times until fifty four no more than it college president and political writer and nt fit sixty three on oil it pinnacle of fumo bild lionor and power unsurpassed if ever attained by any man in history it Is impossible now to different differentiate late woodrow wilson the man bild woodrow Vo wilson tile liend licad of the most powerful nation of earth lit in wealth material and lighting fighting men certainly jim he could not have reached tile the place lie ho held without grent great ability and extraordinary tra ordinary capacity for leadership by virtue of ills his place lie ito became a focus of world attention ns as soon a as s the great nar began before the arel stleo bolce was signed lie luid had become n great moral leader with the ear of the peoples of the world only na its such could lie ho have forced upon the allied world the unofficial unon iclal acceptance of his hip project of n league of nations with its the poles senator J thomas fionin dem ala when representative spoke on the alio floor of woodrow wll soil non the alie greatest apostle of world liberty tind democracy since joans jesus ch chilst Clil st senator thomas IV W Ilar dwIck dem dein of georgia sald bald january 21 in the urn ijen nto 1 I bellevo belleve in it a written constitution I 1 believe in it strict interpretation of it antl I 1 belleve lL that anle ss wt wo leave and abandon this nind falln of hero here nt at homo home and return to the ancient principles of our flithers there will ile he no safety nor for tile people of tills this republic st miltor albert 13 cummins rep of lown expressed tile halfway half way view when lie said tit in tile senate january 03 2 1 I 1 think president wilson Is the most intensely practical statesman of tha or tiny any other day ile ho bagan ao 40 a nI administration mInIstration in ift the belief eliat t tit alie executive office had not tile tho power that it ought to have ile ho ling has more in the direction in which lie set ills face and ills mind than any other man inan either cither lit in tills this or in tiny any former generation Rener atlon and the only criticism if it bo be a criticism Is tillit lie liaa has not marched lit in the right direction and ling has done things that lio lie ought not to leavo lave done lit in tile process of wresting from congress all tile powers lie he believed the constitution conferred upon tile the executive president wilson allson made many political litle til enemies who questioned not ills hla ability but ills motives and methods i MRS AND MRS WOODROW WILSON fourteen points as set forth to congress january 18 1018 abroad and at home tho the enthusiasm evoked by president wilsons Wil sons visits to paris london and rome was proof oi of ills his unique place in the regard of tile the people it wits was evident cadent that ho he was to europeans not so much a man as a vol voice cc a voice putting into words what they wanted and had not been able to express ills ideas and ideals were a sort of religion to them but lie he showed himself a statesman Ps as well as a voice ile ho played the game masterfully lie he established sympathy between himself and ills his man or ills his crowd ile he made few it if any mistakes in taste or judgment ile he matched ills mind to use ills his own expression conj with the best of europe and lie he gut got ills his apa league guo of nations before the alie pc peace ace conf conference arence and got it adopted id opted president wilsons Wll Wil sons two months in europe may bo be divided into plin pleases ases es when lie he landed the attitude toward tile the league of nations was this tile the government of france wre antigon antagonistic Is great britaina Brit ains was suspicious italis was skeptical the first phase alia triumphant progress through F france rance jr england and ita italy ly opened tile the yes eyes of these govern governments itiL ants to iii ills hold bold on the people the seco second nd phase the preliminary work of the peace c conference on convinced these govern governments government men ts that president wilson had till on idea rather than a set plan which lie purposed ased to force upon tI thein lein this sim alm the situation and the rusl rush to climb on the bandwagon band barid wagon began contemporary intimate s of president willson at liomin were IS as alde ade apart as to particularize would bo be I 1 largely to review t the lie political history of tho the last six years the railroad situation however may be cited as ag an example representative I 1 B E denison rep of said january 15 1910 government ownership of railroads will bo be the dominant political issue in the next nati national campaign and mr mcadoo will of course expect to bo be tile tho candidate of ills his party lie he will hope to capitalize what ling has been done for the railroad men I 1 president wilson was waa reelected re elected in 1010 1910 upon a pence platform october 25 1018 1918 just before tile congressional elections lie he issued an appeal to the voters of the united states asking them if they had approved of ills his leadership and wished him to continue to be their unembarrassed spokesman in affairs at home and abroad to express themselves unmistakably to that effect by returning a democratic majority to both houses tile resu result it of tile elections was to change the political complexion of both houses as follows congress Sen senate tite 51 democrats and 45 republicans house in republicans and democrats gatti coth congress senate 47 democrats and 40 republicans left its house 0 39 republicans public ans and democrats president wilson in attending the pence peace conference made several new departures lie ile left the country during office ile he took the office wl tit hini him signing nets acts and making appointments while in paris lie he ignored the senate though lio Is empowered ered by the constitution ution to make trtat treaties les by and with the advice and consent of the senate lie appointed as the american opre himself Secret secretory nry of state robert lousing lansing henry edward M I 1 bouso and beneral le tusker jasrer 11 II bliss lie ile balled december 4 1018 and arrived lit it paris december 14 the french capital was oil en for the occasion december 24 ha fie went to B england and thence to italy ile iio returned to paris january 8 after i a journey that eliat resembled a triumphal process procession lon after tile preliminary sessions 0 of the penco pence conference president wilson returned to the united states in february returning to paris murch march 15 1019 1919 lie ilo signed tile peace treaty juno june 28 1011 anti and returned to the united states july 8 ills second term lis as president defit expired march 3 1020 1920 after ills retirement from tile tho presidency mr wilson lived quietly making a partly successful fight to regain ills health ile iio occasionally went to the thea theater tor and rodo rode enuch lit in ills car about the environs of wash washington ington lie ile bought a home lit in washington and in 1021 formed a law partnership with baan bridge caiby who had been ills his secretary of state succeeding robert lousing lansing lie ile tool took part in the fuli funeral eral pro cession of president hording in washington and was the reci recipient plout of much public attention sir air wilsons Wll Wil Rons sons last public utterance was last fall november 10 1023 1923 the eve of armistice day lie spoke by radio to tile american people defending ills his peace policy and saying that the american people lind withdrawn into a sullen and bellish isolation which la 19 deeply deep y ignoble because manifestly cowardly find and dishonorable armistice iny day sir mr wilson briefly addressed thousands from the front steps of ills his home concluding thus 1 I it cui not one of those that have the least anxiety about tile the triumph of the principles I 1 have stood for I 1 have peon een fools resist providence before and I 1 have seen their destruction as will come upon these again utter destruction and contempt that we prevail Is as sure as that god reigns thank you chronology of wilson woodrow wilson was born december 28 1850 lit in staunton va ile he was tile son of rev ilav joseph it WIl allson sOll a presbyterian minister and jessie woodrow wilson in 1885 lie he married ried ellen louise axsen they had three daughters jessle mrs francis B sayre ayro eleanor mrs W 0 and margaret mrs wilson tiled died august 10 16 1014 1914 lit in tho the white house december 18 1915 mr wilson married edith bolling boiling galt gait it descendant of tile the 29 years of mr WI Wll sons life covered ills boyhood and education tile the next 25 were devoted to teaching and writing with ills his election to the governorship of new jersey in 1010 1910 began ills his active political career ills his chronology follows 1858 family removed to atlanta Atlan tn ua in student in private schools 1875 0 9 student at princeton 1870 82 law student at universo university ity of virginia 1882 3 practicing lawyer in atlanta 1883 ri 5 postgraduate post graduate course at johns hopkins university in history jurisprudence and political science received degree of ph D associate Asso clate professor of history at bryn mawr college 1888 professor of history and political economy tit at wesleyan Wes lefan 1800 professor of jurisprudence and political economy at princeton 1002 president of princeton first political career begins 1010 1910 elected go governor vernoi of new jersey 1912 1012 nominated by democratic national convention in baltimore in june on oil forty sixth ballot by vote of out of 1080 over champ dark clark of missouri and judson harmon of ohio elected president over taft and roosevelt 1910 1010 nominated by acclamation by democratic national convention in st louis in june elected electea president over charles E I 1 woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons ph D thesis was congressional government A study in american politics his later works include the state elements of historical tint and practical Politic ts 1889 new edition 1911 an old INIn master ster and other political essays 1893 division and reunion 1893 mere literature and other essays 1890 new edition 1913 1013 george washington 1890 1806 new edition 1913 atlie the free life 1908 new edition 1913 constitutional goberm government nent in the united states 1008 1908 civic problems 1909 1109 Illi history story of the american people 5 vols 1902 new edition 1912 the new freedom 1913 when a man comes to himself 1915 |