The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 08, 1924, Image 2
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WOODROW WILSON DRAD.
I ?? tit h Came to Great War-Tim* Frea
ident Sunday Morning.
Washington, February 3, ?For
mer Presidont Woodrow Wilson died
at 11:16 o'clock thia morning.
The end waa peaceful. Life ebbed
away while ho alopt*
A tired man, he cloned his eyes,
and, "xuxtained and soothed by an
unfaltering truat" passed on to tho
great hereafter "like one who wraps
the drapery of hia couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreams/' 6
Dr. (jrayson, hia friend and physi
cian, announced the end of the groat
war president in thiH bulletin:
"Mr. Wilson died at 1 1 : 1 f> o'clock.
II heart's action became feebler and
the heart muscles were mo fatigued
that it icfuHcd to act any longer.- The
end came peacefully.
"The remote -causes of death lie in
his ill health which began more than
four years agt>, nam dy: General arte
i io-schlerosis with haemopligia. The
immediate cause of death was ex
haustion following a digestive distur
bance which began' in the early part
of last week but did not reach an
acute stago until the early morning
hours of February^!."
Last Friday the. gnrti reaper had
forced his way into the house after
waiting on the dObrstey more than
fouV years. Saturday he hud advanc
ed to the landing on the staircase and
stood counting oil' tho ticks of the
great clock. Saturday night he knock
ed on the chamber door, A faithful
physician and a loyal wife stood with
their backs against it. At D o'clock
he rattled the knob and called to the
peaceful prosit ate figure on the bed?
a great bed long and wide, * ruplica |
bt-d in-Artrtrlr Abmham f ^TTicolnj
slept in the White House with a gol
den American eagle and a tiny *i!k
American Hag ju?l ovc* the, htad
board.
The watchers knew the battle waj
lost. At the portal of door now open
the faithful negro servant hoverod.
On the bed, sitting beside- her husband,
sustained wi'h all the fortitude and
composure of a woman facing a erisis, I
was Mrs. Wilson, holding between!
her hands the wan, withered, right!
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hand that had proved lh.? pen might- ;
ier than the sword. . Near t'he foot of i
the bed wiri his eldest daughter, Mar- !
garet, resigned t<> the inevi able.
Close by, tears w lling from his eyes,
and cou:p*'ng down his cheeks, was
Dr. Grayson, taking the measure of
the fluttering pulses, weaker and
fainter with each elfort.
Death advan ed and beckoned for
the last. timr... The. tiit-d . worn out
man drew a I b oath, .here was a
slight (lu'l' i- of Uv oye'idu, an almost
impercep h'.o ? .v 1. 1: of Ihc n.>>lrils.
Woodroy W.. ."u'.il had drifted
out on th?' jcent riiii k ... t ide that runs
around all the world.
Mr. Wilson's 'as', woida vi' uuataliu
;d meaning were spoken Friday. They
/ere: "I am ready."
Realizing fully that he could not,
hope to rally from the onslaught of
tho digestive disorder which sapped
his strength, weakened his heart and
accentuated the condition which fol*
lowed his first stroke of paralysis, ho
watched for a moment when all ex
cept Dr. Grayson were out of his
chamber. Drawing his friend and
physician close, he murmered with
some difficulty of articulation:
"The old machine has broken down.
You've done your best for mo. Hut it's
?otter that 1 should go than to live on
helpless invalid, Tell Mrs. Wilson
i want her. I'm ready."
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Tw? n'y eighth president of the
United Slates, and tho first Democrat j
iin< o Jack.'ion to serve two successive}
terms, Woodrow Wilson occupied the
preside nyy during eight years of such
world upheaval and turmoil, that his
proper place in history cannot bo us
iigned to him until his contemporaries
are likewise assigned to their niches.
Certainly, he ranks as one of the
jjroat war presidents of tho American
?(?public, and ho oxercised such an in
fluence in world affairs as never be*
fore attached to his office.
Empires crumbled, thrones col
lapsed; the map of the world was
made over# end under his administra
tion the country abandoned its policy
of Isolation and became an active par
ticipant in world affairs. In all of
that he took a powerful hand. No
biographer could attempt to assess
him accurately, and in full, until the
processes which began in his day and
with lua participation have come to n
conclusion.
An cbiJcUre lawyer, by natu.c a
man of letters, he became an cduca^ ?
to? mrt won htn frnrtr nttcrrttorr from' !
public as president of Princeton Uni- j
v, rsity. Then by the airango ways of
:i political system ho became Governor .
wf i.Yw Jo; soy and iatcr, because ine j
colors of the Republican party were
divided between Theodore Roose- j
volt and William II. Taft he became
president of the United States.
During his eiijht years of power,
hi* traveled the gamut of human
emotions; victoiry, defeat; courtship
>?n I marriage; responsibility for lead
i'.k a natibn into war with jhe collat
1 ie>iponsihiltty of bringing it hack
i.i:a n to the ways of poaee; and final
ly a doily s .:ugg!e^with death.
Ho had heard himself hailed by the
millions of Europe as "the God of
peace" aud heard his name hissed by
J l.e snme millions. Acclaimed at one
time almost as a new Messiah, he
heard himself excoriated and de
noun* ?:d as hii autocrat and worse ai
home and abroad. No other president
s nc l.'n.:o!n was so worshipped and
1 a e : n> o'hor president since Roose
vit I.uj jU. li fii-nds and such ene
mies. Through it all he preserved an
Oil waul calm while the tfrim de
.;_rove. which hovorvd clone about him
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during the last months of his occupan
cy of the presidency, followed him
relentlessly to the modest home where
he lived the ways of a retired gentle
man and knocked at his door every
day until it was at last opened. ?,
After having borne the burdens of a
war president, he undertook the task
of making a peace which he sincerely
believed would bo a lasting one and
although he succeeded in getting Eu
rope to accept it in large measure his
own country rejected it. And in the
fight he broke his health, wore him
self out, suffered u stroke of paralysis
which led to his death, and declared
through it all that he would have been
happy to give Mh life for the success
of the elTorts.
Woodrow Wilson was a precedent
smasher from In-ginning to end. He
brgan by reviving the practice of
Washington and Jefferson in' deliver
ing his most-age to congress in per
son? he finished by actually leaving
?American soil and going to Europe.
11 is was the responsibility of deciding
when a country with a people torn by
conflicting sympathies was ready to
throw itself into the great World war,
and when the moment came he took
the responsibility of throwing in the
men and millions which turned the
scale to victory.
Whatever an army of Boswells may
write, that will be the part in which
ho will be best remembered by coming
generations.
Born in Staunton, Va., December 28,
1850, of Scotch-Irish parentage, he
was christened Thomas Woodrow Wil
son and he was known in early life as
"Tommy." After he was graduated
from Princeton in 1879 he was known
only as Woodrow Wilson. His father
wUs the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson,
sl Presbyterian clergyman, and his
mother was Jessie Woodrow.
When ho' was two years old the for
tunes of his father took the family to
Augusta, Ga., where at the age of 17
Thomas Woodrow Wiison entered
Davidson college, but left there soon
to go to Princeton. After graduation
at Princeton he studied law at the
University of Virginia and in 1882
hung out his shingle in Atlanta, Ga.
Meantime he courted Ellen Louise
Axson, the daughter of a Savannah
Presb/terian clergyman. They were
married in 1.X85 and had 'three daugh
ters, Margaret, the eldest, who did
not marry; Jessie, who became the
wife cf Francis Bowes Sayre, and
Eleanor, who became the wife of Wil
liam G. McAdoo, secretary of the
treasury during her father's adminis
tration.
Mr. Wilson's 3econd marriage took
place on December 18, 1915, to Mrs.
Edith Polling Gait, the widow of a
Washington merchant. There were no
children of this second marriage.
Cakes must be cold before being
iced. The best results are obtained
wlun the cake is made one day and
i ed the next, ~
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America** War President, Woodrow Wilson. earned hU place In
history as a great American. Theae picture* *how (big photo) as he
looked during hi* second term of office Jnat before stalling to Paris to
help dictate peace. So. 1. Woodrow Wliaon on Uia dfith birthday, two
?e?r? nftor retiring to private life; No. 2, Wllaoo back frooi Pari*
eaee Conference ? himself taking the treaty to present to Vr S. Con
gr?K? . Xo. X, Woodroiv Wll mod's Una public appearance fn Washington
tiffer Mng stricken do?ra through overwork In coodndlng peace. Mr*.
Jt U With him.
Mrt. NVoodrow WHmoii, widow of
the former president. who lovingly
had been liis constant companion
and nurae nince hla physical break
down before the completion of hla
aecond term of office Upper. a* ahe
aii>oar?*d when ahe became hi* aec
ond wife during hU prealdency.
Flower, the most recent picture of
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STEVENSON PLAYS TQLBICRT.
Comp?rM His Poptoftc? S?lr? To
Thi( of Teapot Dome Scandal.
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Washington, Jan. 24.-? Renewing his
attack on Joaeph W. Tolbert, itepubli
Can national committeeman for South
Carolina, Representative Stevenson,
Democrat, South Carolina, charged to
day, in the HousAhat Tolbert resign
ed recently as marshal for the western
South Carolina district after he had
been informed certain federal *vp
pointments, favored by him, would be
made.
Representative Stevenson reiterat
ed his charges that Tolbert was h
patronage, seller and read from a doz
en or more affidavits proving he said,
"defiance of the civil service law that
ia comparable only to Teapot Domp."
' You can talk about $100,000 bribes
in the Teapot Dome deal," sdid Mr?
fitovcnson. "If this man had been
secretary of the interior that $100,000
would be invested in South Carolina."
The% House also was told by Repre
sentative Stevenson that Tolbert suc
ceeded in having the size of the Re
publican delegation to the next Re
publican delegation increased to 11
members and in return pledged his
support to President Coolidge.
As proof of hsi charge that Tolbert
at one time had been convicted of
crime, the South Carolina representa
tive produced what he said was a copy
of an indictment which showed that
in 1894^ Tolbert while postmaster at
Ninety-Six had been charged with
paying a $11 debt with stamped en
velopes. He was tried, found guilty,
and fined $50 in federal court, Steven*
son said, ,
Teapot Dome Scandal.
? The action Of Archie RoosoVgTtr irT
telling all he knew about the Teapot
Dome oil deal was just what was to
have been expected of a son of Theo
rjnrA . PnnonyaU
In brief, the story of the Teapot
Dome deal is this: Teapot Dome em
bodies one of the richest oil reserves
in America, and had been reserved for
the future use of the navy. Trans
ferred to private interests it meant
'millions.
The secretary of the interior Albert
B. Fall had jurisdiction, and Fall
being one of those workable kind of
men, Harry F. Sinclair and assistants
proceeded to work him.
Because all the ? circumstances of
this rich conservation were so well
known, it was desirable to enlist men
of prominence in the nation and that
is how Archie Roosevelt happened to
be taken in .
That. the thing was so managed as
to keep young Roosevelt from suspect
ing any wrong is very probable; be
cause it is very well understood that
in so far as the Roosevelts inherit
the splendid qualities of thfeir father,
none of them would knowingly do any
thing dirty.
When it began to comc out clearly
that Fall had been bribed to transfer
the interest of the government in this
property, Roosevelt came forward and
told all about it, turning back on the
men who had tried to use his good
name all the reproach, contempt and
crime that would have been his had
they succeeded.
There is a whole lot that can be said
on different sides of this criminally
reproachful situation; but even if Ar
chie Roosevelt has. been tempted in
connection with the matter, he has
piayed "the part of a man and has
come out with his honor unsullied.
Sinclair knew what he was doing all
| the while and so did Albert Fall.
I York Enquirer.
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.1. H. Howard, a state constable,
was shot and killed last Thursday
while raiding a moonshine still on
Hogback mountain. 31 miles, from
Greenville. Howard was in company
with Reuben Gosnell and IC. N.. Austin.
Fcdoral prohibition officers. His son,
('. G. Howard, was also along. In a
j narrow pass the party arrested two
? young men carying sack*;. Austin and<
1 Howard remained with the prisoners
while Gosnell and .1. H. Howard went
on until they spied two men operating
a still. Gosnell captured Holland Pitt
man while J. H. Howard was pursuing
the other man. The man Howard was
; pursuing turned and fired, the bullet
i striking Howard in the mouth, killing
him instantly. Pittman, the man who
, was captured, told Gosnell that the
man who escaped was Henry Lindsay,
who was afterward arrested. Gosnell
however, who caught a glimpse of the
fleeing murderer; thought he was Al
exander Pittman, father of Holland
Pittman. Alexander Pittman surren
dered inr soott he discovered that
he wan wanted. The matter is still
! being probed. Howard leaves a wife,
seven sons and five daughters.
Following the escape of three con
demned murderers from the state pri
son of Arkansas on Friday, the war
den of the prison has been dismissed.
The foTcrecr of the *t*te declared
thai the escape of the men was due to |
carelessness on the inside of the pri
A <'onnprehen?iv? Document.
Jack ? Tht- grocermen in town haY*!
issued a book of the names o / men
who don't pay their debt*]
Jim ? Yv?, but I heard they are us
ing it for another purpoaa now.
Jack ? What are they using it for
now?
Jim ? A city directory.
Miss Julie K Jenny, deputy attor- I
ney general of New York state, re
cently won a nil it claim of f 55, 900
against the Empire State. i
Human T?pt Line.
MEb, but I'm tired!" exclaimed ?
tall, thin man, meeting a friend on the
h trinity {
"What have you been doing to gtj;
90 tired"
"Well," replied the thin man, draw
ing a deep breath* "my married sis.
t?r i?jnea*uring up her home for new
carpets, nmfthey haven't got any tape
measure. 1 am exactly ?ix feet high,
and to oblige her, I've been lying
down and getting up all over ths
house."
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