nee for the Presidency whom it presents to the country in full assurance that he is, in a peculiar manner, the choice not only of the voters of the party, but also of thousands who bave heretofore another ticket. Mp Wilson's nomin ation was result of a popular demald such as never before swept a national convention—a demand spontaneous and country-wide, which it was impossible to resist Woodrow Wilson , in Christmas week, in the town of Staunton, When he takes his seat, he will be the eighth the Old Dominion And in temperament, ripeness of statesman-like views, ca pacity for political leadership, he is particularly fitted to be the successor of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Mon roe. As they were prepared, above all other men of their time, to do the particular work of founding the Govern ment of the new Republic and giving the first cast and tion to our political institutions, so, it is no idle rhetoric to affirm, is Wilson uniquely fitted to preside over the eritical when the na. I WOODROW WILSON the Democratic party hasan 3 voted the was born in 185 iroinis irginia * President bora in diree hour BIOGRAPHY OF WOODROW WILSON he took the lad on excursions Augusta was a manufactur processes by whieh kinds are worked up into finished products Augusta was “Joe” Lamar a Justice of the du BOUr.: sometimes ity for and taught him the 8 of the «¢ ing erage materials of all Among his mates at school in 5 NOW moved to Columbia, oS. being then seventeen Years old His father had chosen a sch ng Just then n Was & rather small x with his father, who had gon preparing ¥ nimseil to ente the fering find better opp it Was thoug the South su WAY he would f ture LsOvernns iu tion is perplexed by the necessity of meeting new indus- trial, social and commercial condi- tions undrea: by the the Republic. Woodrow Wilson's grandfather, Wilson, i Ireland, whence he miorarad landing emigrated, anqing was Dorn in little more than a century ago. James Wilsen was =a printer; he obtained employment in the office of the “Aur ra,” wt vas leading en ratic paper of the day, recognized as the organ of Thomas Jefferson. ( Philadel- phia was then the capital of the Unit- ed States. James Wilson worked hard and prospered. In the year 1812 he ap- pears by the Phila- deiphia Directory of that date as publisher of the paper. , who continued his interest nt from the Presidency, Wilson moved to S bought the “Western in the Democratic party in ‘Aurora” af Abo the year ville, Ohio, where he foun ald,” and made himself a j Ohio, becoming “Judge” Wilson. OF "PIONEER STOCK In this background of vigorous Western life, among pioneers of the State of Ohio, Woodrow Wilson's father, Joseph R. Wilson, was born and grew to manhood Joseph R. Wilson began life as a teacher, first in an academy, then in Jefferson then in Hampden-Sidney College. Soon, however, he gntered the Presbyterian ministry. He married Janet Woodrow, daughter of the Presbyterian min ister of Chillicothe, Ohio. Janet Woodrow had born in Carlisle, England, but her father had crossed the ocean when she was a little girl—one rough day during the long voyage of ten weeks she had barely escaped being washed overboard. Two years after Woodrow Wilson was born, his fath called to the pastorate of the Presbyteri gusta, Georgia, one of the most influential congregatio the South. He remained in this pulpit throughout the The education of the Wilson boy was not féfreed. father, who had now become one of the leading divines ¢ the South, had his son as a constant companion and talke: James Wm College, been er was Church 3 the Sale were 7) N Won On ¢ Seplember morning in 1878 He f nd himself entering the Freshma BANS with ther young me From ae ned : e d the reg Rr KT ¢ Rl " ground thr th the mili. Very early he made uj his mind what he ed 1 NAR himself. and then he set himself steadfastly to the up a magazine that contained one of a series of arti cles on the British vivid and ir f the dra Wilson British le finish read the others fell into his that be, too endid scenes in which national From the hour in = h those magazine articies jetermination LIFE'S BATTLE He made his reg the work of reading, great he was thinking, and. writing about government He «was in no sense a “dig and seemed to have no particular ambition the college studies, but he devoted every energy to the fur nishing and the training of his mind as an authority on govern ment, the history of government, lic life. To this he added assiduous extemporaneous speaking; the seek for skill in expression and readiness in debate. He had dy made himself pro ficient stenography ling it of great value in making of what he read and quota s which would other 8 ( ipied hin Wilson neve either then or fe wrote out his snes { ex ept n the very rare ons when it was necessary to be verbally exact This 4
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