WOODROW WILSON THE STORY OE HIS LIFE BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE Author of A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Background and Boyhood 3 II. Boyhood in Georgia 23 III. Off to College 43 IV. A Student at Princeton 54 V. Still Studying Law and Politics .... 77 VI. Professor Wilson 96 VII. Princetons New President 112 VTIL Democracy or Aristocracy 122 IX. The Graduate College Contest 139 X. Out of Princeton into Politics 160 XI. One Year of a Progressive Governor . . 185 XII. The Presidency Looms Up 214 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS WOODROW WILSON Frontispiece FACING PAGE JUDGE JAMES WILSON 20 THE REV. DR. THOMAS WOODROW 20 WILLIAM DTJANE WILSON 20 THE REV. DR. JOSEPH RUGGLES WILSON, . 20 THE MANSE, STAUNTON, VA., WHERE WOODROW WILSON WAS BORN 104 THE HOUSE DESIGNED BY WOODROW WlLSON AT PRINCETON 104 GOVERNOR WILSON AND His FAMILY ... WOODROW WILSON WOODROW WILSON CHAPTER I BACKGKOUND AND BOYHOOD IT WAS four years more than a century ago that a restless youth of twenty, to whose ears had come amazing stories of the oppor tunities to be found in a new land, forsook the home of his Scots-Irish fathers in County Down, on the Irish shores of the windy North Channel, and sailed forth toward the baths of the Western stars. Perhaps he had heard of the fame of a Scotsman of his own name and without doubt his own kin who, having migrated to America only a generation before, had become one of the founders of the new nation, one of the signers of its Declaration of Independence, a member of its Constitutional Convention, and a Justice of its first Supreme Court. At all events, it 4 WOODROW WILSON was on a ship bound for the city ofJustice James Wilson that young James Wilson sailed. The later emigrant may have been destined to no such eminence as was the earlier, yet young James, too, found his opportunity in the new country found it in a little shop full of the smell of printers ink and mysterious with the apparatus of the preservative art the shop at 15 Franklin Court, formerly the home of Benjamin Franklin, whence issued, to the en lightenment of the good people of Philadelphia, William Duanes daily paper, the Aurora, To their enlightenment, it is to be hoped certainly very much to their entertainment and their agitation and not only theirs, but the whole countrys as well. William Duane was the earliest muck-raker in American journalism indeed, he was muck-raking on the other side of the world before he had a chance to employ Bunyans celebrated tool here. Though born on the shores of Lake Champlain, Duane was educated in Ireland, whence he went out to India and started a newspaper much occupied with arraigning the British Government