LUCKY THIRTEEN

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1019, 5 November 1912, Page 4

LUCKY THIRTEEN

DR, WOODROW WILSON’S MASCOT.

“Thirteen is my lucky number,” laughingly observed Dr. Woodiow Wilson, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, at Columbus, Ohio, when a visitor urged him to add a fourteenth to his travelling party. Throughout his campaign tour in the West Dr Wilson will sleep and eat in a railway-car containing thirteen people. In this connection he recalls the fact that he was elected as the thirteenth president of Princeton University in the thirteenth year ot his professional activities. Thirteen has played a conspicuous part in his life. On Friday, the thirteenth of September, Dr. Wilson rode from New York to his seat at Seagirt with thirteen in the train and arrived at his destination at 11.13.

. Dr. Wilson has planned to make very few speeches in the course of his Presidential campaign, but the gigantic demonstrations and the enthusiasm aroused by Mr Roosevelt in the West have had the effect of making him change his mind. Henceforth until the election day he wll practically live in a private railway-car and deliver speeches daily from the observation platform like his strenuous opponent of the “ Bull Moose Party.”