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Show IWOODROW WILSON EXPECTED 10 LOOM BIG IN POLITICS AGAIN Former President Believed Willing to Accept the Challenge Thrown Down by Harding in His Message to Congress. i ii v joitx i mviv m:iv i (Copyright, 1922, by The Standard - Examiner. ) WASHINGTON. Doc. 9. Wood-I! Wood-I! row Wilson la expected to become I :i cry active factor In national af- fairi 'nnP before next summer rolls around. ! Tl at was the declar tb.n hrr- t. lay of Republican and . ratlc I onrreaslonal Leaden alih It fol- -,-.ved caroful analysis of the ttd- dress of PreeldOHt Warren G. llar.l- in,- to congress In which he dealt Nv)th more live dynamite" than any 1 other chief executive in the nation a history. . The president throw down the gauntlet to tho former admtnlstra-1 admtnlstra-1 tion, as well as to his own parly critics nnd Democrats Insisted that, inasmuch as Mr. Wilson! health U vastly improved he can be relied on to accept the challenge. Of course, no one knows just what i Mr Wilson plans to do except hlrn- fl self. When his devoted wife, who ho admits is a wonderful purse, was i: Baltimore on Thursday attending a "Democratic jubilee." she was ask--d probably a scoro of times wheth- r Mr Wilson ever again would pe- come, an active candidate for the presidency. Uke the diplomat that She Is. Bhe very smilingly evaded any direct reply. ' That is whore the situation rests I to. lay The distinguished author ol ' tho league of nations covenant and j of tho '-fourteen points of peace 1 so far has refused to let the public soe what Is in his mind Even though his health Is getting b( tier dally there has not como in any of-l of-l flcial manner, . von a suggestion that he is ready to take a public posl-I posl-I lion on current events, ;ilN:iys, of I course, excepting his armistice day J address and the. several notes thai he has sent to party leaders touch-1 touch-1 Ing on why he h.dievod the recent I election turned out as It did. Certain persons who have clalmi I II to be in position to Interpret his views have suggested how he stood. But even these Inspired suggestions have failed to bring any positive dec- 3! laration from the "sag- of S street ",V Bccauao of this thero h.'s )..-..-n made "J various statements regarding the visit $ of f, Clemenreau to tho former president. Most of these, as B mat-A mat-A icr 0f fact, have been unwarranted. . W The quarter hour chat was ex-H ex-H tremely personal In that It l .iif l with the men hemsolvos instead of m with the subject dearest to their J minds. World problems were not brought up but M. Qtome'nceau did 1 not recall certain humorous episodes epi-sodes of their relations in France and Mr. Wilson told the "Tig( f I couple of new stories. J So far as M. Clemenceau was .-..n-I cerned, he was greatly disturbed by I the suggestions that Mr. Wilson did 1 not desire him to visit him This i feeling was Intensified by the dor's dor-'s laration that When Marsh;. I Foch i tried to -lslt tho ex-president a year ago. during the progress of the na-; na-; val armament conference, he was M snubbed. Clemencoau did not un-I un-I d rstand why this should have been .1 the caso. i As a matter of fact the exact truth regarding the now world famous "snub" was obtained today Nothing took place along lhat line that was I broadcasted at the time, but for per- sonal reasons no effort was made by ji Mr Wilson to set at rest the untruo -I report It can be stated that there J was neither snub or thought of snu'.j I Mr. and Mrs Wilson did expect to re-I re-I ceive the allied chief, but failed to set I & date for the visit, j Winn Marshal Foch reached Wash- lngton he told a member of his party one morning that lie wanted to go out and Visit Mr. Wilson Th- individual j consulted, ordered the automobiles ac , the disposal of the Fn.-nrh chief of H staff around to the Wtllard hotel and a start was made for the S si reel j residence. I About an hour earlier Mr Wilson I had been seized with an attack of ln- i digestion. When the Foch party -Ji reached tho s street 7n j n i tin re B 1 .1 nobody there but a secretary and '"i members of the Wilson household. I When the door bell rang It was ;f opened by the secretary who does not j apeak French Marshal Foch ami n two members of his party presented .J their cards. They were told that m .A Wilson was indisposed. Cards w sre , depmlted and the party left. More than an hour afterward Mr Wilson issued orders that should the French marshal call he would receive him in his bedroom But It was not until 4S hours later that It was learned learn-ed that the party hal been there and departed. That is the only basis for tho snub report, ft was explained today. to-day. Tho real facts Were that both the former president and Mrs. Wilson had expected to receive the French hero m the most Informal fashion but this was made Impossible by the fall-lure fall-lure of those in charge of the visit to consult any one In authority at tho Wilson homo. The Clemencoau visit followed on Mr. Wilson's armistice day address has served to emphasize that In any j plans or preparations for tho noxt national na-tional campaign the attitude of Mr , Wilson hlmselt will have to be tak in Into consul. ration. With returning j health he must be consulted by the party leaders, it Is declared. When 'the San Francisco convention was In ' progress ho was extremely 111 and . . rtain Individuals took it upon them-I them-I solves to "Interpret'' hla wishes. It j Is certain that from now on this will be Impossible. |
