AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4130, 30 October 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

FINE STUDY .-OF WILSON. MORE ELECTION COMMENTS. vliy Electric Telegraph —Copyright.; (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.; (Received October; 30, 8.55 u.m':') iNew York, October 28. Mr Tumulty, private secretary to President Wilson, addressing a political 'rally at Betliseda, in Maryland, revealed many intimate incidents concerning Dr. Wilson. Mr Tumulty said that when Coiir I gross was still' apjplauduig Wilson's great war message in 1917 ,the President, who was sitting in an anteroom, said; ' 'Think of what they are applauding I It means the deatJi of our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that J" Yao this same Wilson became tlie mosb uncompromising advocate of the mst stringent messages for conducting the war. it was he who insisted on mining the North Sea, and he who broached the question of combining the Allies under Martial i^och. "It is said, ,, declared Mr Tumulty, "that President Wilson will not take counsel of others. You won't iind another President who consulted so much with others. But he would nob do what he had been told,to "do. He holds that the President should be a leader, not a follower. I have heard Dr. Wilson say: 'I want people to love me—but they never will. . This lonely man is not lonely because he disdains Love. He craves it with all his soul. He is lonely 'because of his genius. Dr. Wilson lacks by temperament the hail-fellow-well-met Eastern' familiarity. I have two pictures in my mind—first, of a straight, vigorous, alert man, who addressed Congress in 1917; second, of a man sitting huddled in his chair looking upon the procession of wounded soldiers. As they salute he drops his head. Wounded greet wounded. They arid he aJiko are casualties of the "Great War." The New York Herald's financial correspondent learns that the National City Bank has consummated the pur- - chase of five million dollars' worth of gold in Australia, part of which is already en route for America. The remainder is coming in November and December. The venture is expected to be profitable, and to open the path to a subsequent acquisition of more gold. Non-partisan observers of the election campaign sa3 r that Senator Harding's party (the Republicans) have money and organisation for skilful and effective campaigning, which Governor Cox is lacking. The Democrats accused Harding of a campaign of millions, but it is really with envy that they watch the money flowing into tho Republican exchequer. Harding is also favoured by a reaction against the so-called Wilsonism. It is thought that Cox's heritage from Wilson lias been a burden rather than an aid.