The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1913. AMERICA'S NEW PRESIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 59, 11 March 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1913. AMERICA'S NEW PRESIDENT.

After a lapse of sixteen years a Democratic President now occupies the White House, Mr Woodrow Wilson being the first of that Party to gain the Presidency of the United States since Mr Grover Cleveland. Before Ah' Wilson’s selection President Cleveland was the hist Democratic President for half a century, the Republicans for fifty years having dominated politics to a very great extent. It ■must therefore be admitted that the people and institutions of the United States have reached their present position and development largely under Republican influences and the new era in political thought and action in that great country is an event of moment to the world at large. It has been well said that what America most expects from its now President is “not so much a change in. theory of its legislation or administration as a reform in the practice of Government.” The strict enforcement of anti-Trust law, the modification of the Tariff and the suppression of “graft” arc among the great things hoped for. If Mr Wilson fulfils his promises, one of the first tasks undertaken will be a revision of the tariff, and bis selection of Mr W. .1. Bryon, a declared enemy of the Trusts, as Secretary of State, indicates the direction lie intends to work with regard to the limitation of trade monopoly. Mr Woodrow Wilson believes in almost Spartan simplicity. Before he was installed as President, lie refused Mr Taft’s offer of a Government vessel to carry him to Panama, and the Xew York press observes signs that the new President will set his face against tin 1 tendency, which was increased by Mr Roosevelt and not checked by Mr Taft, to make the White House imitate a European Court. It recalls the austere simplicity of Grover Cleveland’s time,

when a distinguished German visitor familiar with all the Courts of Europe, in company witli a well-known citizen found his way to Mr Cleveland’s office without previous appointment, after being challenged only by the doorkeeper and the secretary. “True,” it remarks,“the American who went with him was well known to the White House and Mr Cleveland. Hut' the absence of uniforms and flunkeys, of ceremonial of every kind was what astounded this foreign visitor. Nothing else in all America so impressed him! with the fact that here was a great and true democracy. All the glitter of the Viennese Court faded in comparison.” This studied simplicity insisted upon by the new President may do something towards checking the spirit of extravagance and luxury which has grown up of late years in America. From many standpoints the course of events in that great country is being closely watched.