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PAGE TEN t ; « •> v*' r*- 9 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1924 Wilson Will Be Fgure in History Lloyd George Pays Tribate to Former President—Ideal Unto Death. Churt Surrey, England, Feb. 3.—At lie new country home here, David Lloyd George, Great Britain’s war time prime minister, today heard from the correspondent of the Asso ciated Press the news of the peaceful passing of Woodrow Wilson. “Woodrow Wilson will become one •f the great figures of history,” was lis tribute. “He was a man, and therefore had his weaknesses, fie was the first to embody the ideal of fraternity of nations into a con crete man. “Like the founder of Christianity,” said Mr. Lloyd George, “the central figure in history and like Lincoln, after him, he prosecuted his ideal to his tragic death. These circum- Last Days of Wilson J In Death’s Presence Fighting for Lifts Day by Day, Real* ized Promimiiy at End and Lived in Seclusion With Smalt Re tinue. Modeling Life on Eight Hour Day. Washington, Feb. 3.—After Wood- row Wilson left the White House in 1921 he took to the life of a retired rnan of letters, which continued until death. He lived alone with his wife in a comparatively modest home for : a man of his place, and maintained i a modest establishment of three ser- ° vants and a used car. His daily routine was modeled on the eight hour day, which he once told congress was “adjusted by the thought and experience of recent years, a thing upon which society is justified in insisting as in the interest of health, e&ciency and content ment.” He always said grace before stances, if nothing more, would make, meal even jn the d when ltfe was his memory last m the minds of men. I t a , ow ebb and hfi had to stea(J WiJson, like Lincoln and other | himself on the ^ of his dini chair of- on I io + o r\ r» c* rx r\T lixroH T r\ ... - _ ^ great idealists, has not lived to see fiis dreams realized. Nevertheless his work will be carried on to his own glory and the permanent benefit of mankind. In the national sense he led his country out on to the road of world affairs, from which there is no Plunging into an energetic narra- 'lumtce. the oeace table continued: from the Bible, which lay upon the reading table. Fighting for life day by day Wood- ^—Lrow~ Wilson- -reo 1 mod- tha4~he -iived- “The tragedy of it all is that Wood- row Wilson's failing was his inability to subdue personalities—his refusal to give up personal animosity. This weakness caused his failure to real ize his ideal during his lifetime, and in the end it was this weakness which doubtless contributed to His death. “If the president had been willing to sacrifice personal prejudice to obtain the general support of his peo- ild have realized pie at home, he coul his lis league of nations ideal by this means, it is certain in view of the concessions which the European pow- ers would have made to American de sires for changes in the league plans.” “But Mr. Wilson could not over come his failing. Last year, when I visited Him in Washington, he still was as bitter as ever against his op ponents. Mr. Wilson walked on his weaker opponents—a dangerous pol icy for a great man. One can tram- pie on great men, but not little men— there are too many of them. “But, after all, Mr. Wilson was a tenderfoot in politics. You know how mosquitoes in some places in the world plague the tenderfoot. If the newcomer does not get used to the pests, they will efct him up. Some politicians, after being attacked for years, become innoculated to personal criticism. But Mr. Wilson never and whisper the words. He never failed before closing his eyes, for bile in the White Hook ground take his pl&cfe in the Hare public appearances. The most not able of the latter were at the funeral of the Unknown Soldier and at Presi dent Harding’s funeral ceremonies. On the latter occasion, the former president was waiting fh his automo- ids to arding funeral procession. A great array of notables was passing in and out of the White House, when an army officer ap proached the former president and said: “Pardon me, sir, may I ask you for some information?” “Yes, you may,” replied Mr. Wilson. “Can you tell me if Senator Lodge has arrived yet?” asked the officer. Mr. Wilson eyed the man closely for an instant, and apparently con the questioner vincing himself that was sincere, replied: “I don’t know; I’m not his keeper.” Whether the man ever knew of his faux has never learned. Mr. Wilson later got a sardonic laugh out of the incident. * Arch enemies over the peace treaty fight, Wilson seldom spoke of the Massachusetts senator. Beseiged to write his memoirs, or his own account of the peace treaty what he knew always might be the' fight, or anything else for that mat- last time, to read aloud a few verses' ter, Mr. Wilson always declined ex- resence of death. A man of his paralysis and general breakdown— seldom lives long. The best medical skill, careful nursing and the con stant attention of a devoted wife, however, lengthened his span of life toward the three score and ten as even his most ardent well wishers had not dared to hope. Mr. Wilson took a modest fortune with him from the White House, and although he never earned money dur ing his retirement, he was able to live comfortably but carefully on his capital. When he came to Washing ton from the governorship of New Jersey he brought with him a few thousand dollars in savings well in vested. His salary as an educator never was large and his pay as gov ernor was also small. He had been raising a family of girls, and although he had written many books hia royal ties were desultory. When he came into a salary of $76,000 a year—the largest he ever received—years of thrift asserted themselves and he saved money. Royalties from his writings jumped suddenly and tre mendously because his books came into great demand. Social activities j at the White House were discontinued because of the war, and he saved a great part of his salary. It was esti mated that when he left the White House, Woodrow Wilson was worth more than a quarter of a million dol lars. Mrs. Wilson had a modest for tune of her own before her marriage, cept in one or two instances. H® spent a good deal of time writing. Dropped up in bed, after the habit of Mark-Twain, but #' never- wa® what publishers were asking for. All his seemed to withstand political pin pricks. They hurt his proud, sensi- | Nobody ever knew com pletely what Ye .^ ** was t j C his feelings were for politics during to bites, ttwas those vroonds inflicted hia retirements. He took no active part, but there were some times indi te Ray Stannard Baker with permis sion to write what he would. “Write what you will,” he told Baker, “I’ll answer any questions you ask but it will be your book, and I don’t ever want to see what you write.” A veritable flood of Wilsonia—most of it adversely critical, poured off the printing presses after his retire ment but he never contemplated writ ing his own version. Robert Lan sing’s caustic sentences on his admin istration and conduct at the peace conference he read without comment. H was said that he never did read the book published by Joseph P. Tu midity, his former secretary. His wife and physicians kept it from him and made him promise not to read it. His daily mail was a heavy one. Old friends discoursed on the polities of the day and criticised the Repub- lic*n administration; cranks cluttered his mail box with pleas for financial aid; indorsement of this, that or the other movement; hundreds afflicted with his malady wanted to know the details of the treatment his physicians rave him. Mr. Wilson answered most of the letters himself; directed a se cretary how to answer others and al ways signed all himself. Hh read the newspapers with avidity, was abreast of world affairs and lived confident in the conviction that the principles he espoused would be ac cepted in the end. and by politicians that broke him hastened his end.” Mr. Lloyd George said the feeling between Wilson and Roosevelt was the most savage hatred he ever had known. The former premier told how fie had first met Mr. Wilson when he first came to London in 1918. He did not care much for him during the early days of their acquaintance, but be said that later he felt he under stood Mr. Wilson's personality and was drawn to him, despite the presi dent’s lack of “common touch,” which be usually found characteristic of Americans. " A Contributing factor to Mr, son’s breakdown, according to wrr Mr. Lloyd George, was overwork in Paris during his heroic labors to perfect a lasting peace. The former premier said that personally he toolf time off from the peace conference for an oc casional game of golf and spent week - ends on trips to the devastated areas, but President Wilson stayed “chained to his documents” and the confer- erce committee, sacrificing his life for his country and freedom, as sure ly as did Lincoln. To the French and to Mr. Clemen- eeau, Wilson was incomprehensible, according to Mr. Lloyd George. The American president embodied the highest type of the idealism which, on occasions, manifests itself among the Scotch and Anglo-Saxons, an ideal ism which, the former premier added, no man can live up to all the time. Naturally, at moments, there was a slackening and compromising and then to the French all of Wilson’s idealism was sheer hypocrisy. One of Mr. Wilson’s compromises at Paris, which Mr. Lloyd George said he had never been fully acquainted with until yesterday, was an agree ment between Wilson and Clemen- eeau regarding the occupation of the Rhineland. The documents in the J case, which had been in the hands of j the Britsh foreign office, unknown to Mr. Lloyd George, were sent to him yesterday with permission for pub lication. Mr. Wilson’s health, according to Mr. Lloyd George, began to break in Paris in April, 1919. after he had been, subjected to “foul” press at tacks which the French unloosed* against him because Wilson was adamant on certain treaty issues. According to Mr. Lloyd George, Pre sident Wilson had yielded to the French pleas that the peace confer ence he held in Paris and this at- 1 tack was his reward. It was impossible, declared Mr. Uoyd George, to place President Wil son comparatively with other Ameri can presidents. He was so unlike Roosevelt that a comparison could not he drawn. His prototype undoubted ly was Lincoln, but without the emancipator's humanity. cations that those close about him were urging him to do so. He once asked his medical advisers if they thought he could undertake a cam paign and was advised that a politi cal melee surely would kill him. Ap parently he gave up the thought if, indeed, he had any, and contented himself with expressing himself on political questions when asked by correspondents. He never lost, how ever, an opportunity to drop a bomb shell on some office-seeker running for reelection, who had failed to sup- port his policies while he was in thp. White House. On some few occasions he acknow ledged the plaudits of admirers who gathered in the street in front of his home and once or twice delivered ad Stevenson Flays McAdoo’s Enemies Fiery Speech by South Carolina Con gressman. CHes Col. Roosevelt. Washington, Feb. 2.—Congressman W. F. Stevenson, of South Carolina, made a fiery speech in the House to day in resentment of Republican ani madversions against the Democratic party on account of the Doheny testi- i :ony that W. G. McAdoo had receiv- ed large fees from the Doheny oil interests. Mr. Stevenson obtained the floor on a point of personal privi lege. He said that he had been mis quoted by certain news papers which dresses by radio but he made few reported him as saying yesterday in House for Rent t a colloquy with Representative Fos ter t Representative) of Ohio, that McAdoo was ao friend of hia (Steven son’s) it was Doheny whom he de clared to be no friend of his, the South Carolinian explained. “But there was quite a to do in some of the papers about a South Carolina Democrat abandoning Wil liam G. McAdoo,” continued Mr. Stevenson. “When I abapdon a friend it will not be at a time some oleagea- nous millionaire is trying to besmirch him. “I may say,” he added, “that it is not necessary for anyone to ad judge Mr. McAdoo out of the Pres idential race until he has been heard. I don’t know Mr. Doheny, but L have heard it stated that he and certain other oily gentlemen dined at the White House. I think from that Mr. Doheny must be a friend up there.” “Maybe he did not have his oil can with him when he dined there, suggested Representative Wefald, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor member. “I have been practicing law thir ty-six years and its hard making ends meet,” rejoined Stevenson. “Mc- AdeoV employment was .after thia. « ► I l them twit us.about nominating an un clean candidate.” Reviewing political history Mr. -jo- Stevenson charged the Republicans with putting up various men to whom attached a taint of corruption. J? M. W. 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