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Show II WOODROW WILSON AND HIS PARTY. I Perhaps no greater tribute was ever paid a president by his par- i' ty than that of yesterday, when the Democratic convention in San I Francisco, catching sight of a flag-draped and illuminated picture If of Woodrow "Wilson which was exposed to view by the lifting of m the folds of a great flag, broke forth 'in a demonstration of cheer- H ing and marching that continued until delegates and spectators were Bj carried off their feet. The hysterical excitement continued thirty K minutes. I ' It is fair to say that few presidents have been so intensely ad- I mired by his followers or so. bitterly hated by his enemies as has been "Woodrow Wilson. The faithful of the party have no limits i": to their praise; their opponents cannot say anything too severe in ' denunciation. In part this is the history of our presidents since tin days of Washington. "The Father of His Country," Thomas Jef- ferson and all the strong men of that earlier period, and later, Abra- E ham Lincoln, were the targets of abuse. l Woodrow Wilson stands out in remarkable contrast to G rover II Cleveland. When Cleveland had served the second time, the party I repudiated the president and in convention turned against him by I nominating as a candidate William J. Bryan, who represented oppo- I sition to all the economic policies of Cleveland's last term. - Bj If Woodrow Wilson had not suffered a physical collapse and I mental shock, his party might have been so carried away with his I. leadership as -to have committed the error that Grant's adherents M attempted to foster on the Republican party at the time the famous 111 general was serving his second term. |