PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3615, 30 October 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

MR. COX’S CAMPAIGN

TRIBUTE BY PRESIDENT WILSON.

Received 11.50 a.m,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29

President Wilson has sent a letter to Mr, Cox, expressing admiration of the latter’s course throughout the Democratic campaign, and predicting that Mr. Cox will receive the voters’ emphatic endorsement. The President stated: “As a voter, I want to express my entire confidence in you, and my confident hope that under your leadership we, may carry the National Government ’s policy forward along the path of liberal legislation and reform, until the whole world will again see an illustration of the wholesome strength of democracy. 5 ’

PRESIDENT WILSON,

INTERESTING REMINISCENCES. 1

Received 5.55 a.m,

NEW YORE, Oct. 29,

Mr, Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, addressing a political rally at Bethseda, Maryland, revealed many intimate incidents concerning President Wilson. Mr. Tumulty “said that when Congress was still applauding Wilson ’s great war message in 19,17, the President, who was sitting in an ante room, said; “Think of what they are applauding; it means' the ‘death of our young men, and strange it seems to applaud that.” After this the President became a most uncompromising advocate of the most; stringent measures for conducting the war. It was he who insisted on mining the North Sea, he who broached the .question of combining the Allies under Marshal Poch. “It is said,” declared Mr. Tumulty, “that Wilson will not take counsel of others. Toil won’t find another President who consulted so much''with others; but he would not do what he had been told to do. He holds that the President should be the leader, not the follower. I have heard Wilson say: *1 want people to love me, but they never will.’ This lonely man is not Idnely because he disdains love; he craves it with all his soul. He is lonely because of his genius. Wilson lacks by temperament the hail-fellow-well-met Eastern familiarity. I have two pictures in my mind—the first of a straight, vigorous, alert man who addressed Congress in 1917; the second of a man sitting huddled in his chair, looking upon a procession of wounded soldiers. They salute, he bows his head, niid wounded greet wounded: they and‘he alike are casualties of the great war.'’