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victions." Oh, certainly not — nothing 

 was further from the mind of the 

 bosses. Moreover, Smith was too un- 

 well to be a candidate. Dr. Wilson 

 stood and captured the Governorship, 

 which had been held for years by the 

 Republicans. And on the same day 

 James E. Martine was elected in the 

 " primary " as Senator. The way was 

 clear : enter to the Governor ex-Senator 

 Smith, a gentleman of hne manners and 

 great cunning. The simple professor 

 would, he felt, be putty in his hands. 

 He spoke discreetly of his past, and 

 of the improvement in his health. He 

 thought he was well enough to seek re- 

 election to the Senate. Wilson was stiff. 

 The primar}' had elected Martine, and 

 there was nothing for the Legislature 

 to do but ratify that election. " The 

 primary was a joke," said Smith. "It 

 was very far from a joke," said the 

 Governor-elect. " But assume that it 

 was. Then the way to save it from 

 being a joke hereafter is to take it 

 seriously now. It is going to be taken 

 seriously, and there will be no more 

 jokes. Unless I hear from you by the 

 last mail delivery on Thursday that you 

 abandon this intention, I shall announce 

 my opposition to vou on Friday morn- 

 ing." 



WILSON V. THE MACHINE. 



The letter did not come ; instead an 

 appeal for delay. No delay : the de- 

 nunciation appeared on Friday, and 

 Wilson, no" waiting for the meeting of 

 the Legislature, went direct to the 

 people and in a series of great meetings 

 called on them to see that their repre- 

 sentatives carried out the will of the 

 people declared at the primary. It was 

 the first great challenge to the machine 

 of the bosses. The legislators were 

 paralysed between the gay defiance of 

 this political novice and the dread of 

 the machine. " Do not allow yourselves 

 to be dismayed," said the Governor. 

 "You see where the machine is en- 

 trenched, and it looks like a real for- 

 tress. It looks as if real men were in- 

 side, as if they had real guns. Go and 

 touch it. It is a house of cards. Those 

 are imitation generals. Those are play- 

 things that look like guns. Go and put 



}Our shoulder against the thing and it 

 collapses." They did ]nit their shoul- 

 ders against it and it did collapse. The 

 Legislature elected Martine to the 

 Senate by 40 \otes to Smith's four. 

 And now you know wh}- " Boss " 

 Croker, on being asked during a recent 

 visit to America what he thought of 

 W'oodrow Wilson, said, "An ingrate is 

 no good in politics." The machine had 

 adopted the schoolmaster as a tool : it 

 had found him its master. 



HIS REAL PASSION. 



But the mistake indeed was in sup- 

 posing that Woodrow Wilson was an 

 amateur politician. He is, indeed, the 

 most fully-equip]:)ed politician in 

 America. His whole career as student, 

 as lawyer, and as professor had been 

 governed by the deliberate ]Turpose of 

 qualifying for public life. And it was 

 an English journalist who gave him 

 his bent. It is true that his origins 

 pointed to affairs. His grandfather 

 Wilson had emigrated from Belfast, 

 his grandfather Woodrow from Scot- 

 land. They and their families were all 

 Presbyterians, and those who were not 

 journalists were Presbyterian ministers. 

 Scot — and Irish-Scot — Press and pulpit 

 — is there any more natural or formid- 

 able combination for public life?^ But 

 it was the discover}-, in the " Gentle- 

 man's Magazine," when he was an 

 undergraduate at Princeton in the seven- 

 ties of a series of articles on English 









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