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Show WILSON UNDAUNTED BY HIS LONG ILLNESS; MIND DECLARED KEEN AS EVER i NEW YORK. June IS. President Presi-dent Wilson's nine months of Illness Ill-ness '"have neither daunted his spirit nor impaired tho slightest slight-est degree his splendid Intel-World Intel-World .correspondent with the i correspondent suys. the president Within the last two months, the correpsondent says, the president has gained more than twenty pounds and his ultimate complete recovery is assured. The correspondent says that the long discussion of current tppics and issues showed that the president presi-dent "expressed himself with characteristic Wllsonlan vigor." The president told the correspondent, corre-spondent, in discussing the polill- . cal campaign, that the league of nations was the dominent issue and he expects the Democrats at San Francisco to repeat his chal- I lenge for a referendum on the league. The issue is "too deep for political sculduggery," the president is quoted as saying. The president was particularly vigorous in attacking the Republican Repub-lican platform, according to the correspondent. "The Republican national convention." said the president, "was controlled by Interests In-terests essentially and scientifically scientifical-ly Prussian in inspiration and mothod," TIp ,-iid he did not se how Progressives could support . the Republican platform. President Wilson told the correspondent cor-respondent he had not recommended recom-mended any candidate for the nomination at San Francisco. in discussing the president's physical condition, the correspondent correspon-dent said, "his face Is not distorted distort-ed In the slightest degree as some of the unfrlendlv versions of ,his illness havo assorted. The Wilson face is much tho same as it was. though It bears the impression of great physical suffering." "After he had worked and we had talked for an hour, the president presi-dent walkCd from hl3 office chair on the balcony to the movies in the East Room, elowly, cautiously, cautious-ly, but with confidence." a The correspondent described the movements of the president x about the White House and said "the ver best proof of the great Improvement in the president's physical condition Was provided when he mounted three Improved wooden sleps and entered the motor mo-tor car, with onv such assistance as would natura'lv be given to a person convalescing from serious Illness." , The president walked with a slight limp and used a cane, according ac-cording to thp correspondent. |