Part 16 (1/2)

W W

19 Nov, 1916

Dear Tue I wish you would read it and give me your impression of it

And please keep it very carefully from any eyes but your own It is still in provisional shape only, and there are a nu under advisened) W W

17 May, 1916

THE WHITE HOUSE

WAshi+NGTON

Dear Tuestions I have read it very carefully and findvery reat deal of serious thinking about it all

Faithfully, (signed) W W

Sohts into day-to-day affairs at the White House]

In these reestions of various kinds, many of which he acted upon and iven of the fact, that despite what his critics estions, but openly invited them

CHAPTER XXVI

WILSON VERSUS HUGHES

After the delivery of the speech of acceptance on September 2nd quiet ruled over the Wilson camp at Shadon This lull in the matter of politics was intensified by the President's absence from Shadon because of the death of his only sister, which called hiies from the discussion of politics

On September 11th, the state elections in Maine were carried by the Republicans The total vote was the largest ever cast in Maine in a state election The Republican orous contest in Maine by both parties and the Republicans were greatly heartened by the result in the hope that ”as goes Maine so goes the Union”

There is no doubt that the result in Maine, which many Democrats were of the opinion was a forecast of the results throughout the nation in Nove effect The Republicans accepted it as a harbinger of victory and the Deht of the Maine elections I kept close to the telephone at the Executive offices and engaged in conferences with two or three practical politicians fro to watch the effects of the returns from Maine upon these et theht of Septe politicians of Essex County, New Jersey, as in the room, took fro to the returns of previous elections, said: ”Of course, the Republicans will hail this as a great victory, but if they will sit down and analyze the gains they have made, they will find no comfort in them, for to me they indicate a Democratic victory in Noveains in other states, you can absolutely count upon a Democratic victory in 1916”

This prophecy was verified by the results of the election of November 7th

It was difficult and almost impossible between the date of the speech of acceptance and the first of October to revive interest in the De about a renewal of hope of success that had alical results of the Maine election

Frequent demands were et busy and to do sohes was busily engaged in cahout the West” But the President in his uncanny way knew better than we the psychological moment to strike He went about his work at the Executive offices and gave to us ere closely associated with hi unusual was afoot and that no Presidential caestions to hi He would only smile and calmly say: ”The moment is not here Let theuns upon theical e of it One afternoon in September the President telephoned me at the Executive offices at Asbury Park to have the newspaper ive out a reply to a telegraroup, I attended this conference It appeared that an Irish agitator naainst the President and trying to array the Irish vote against hi attention to the results of the Maine elections and to the New Jersey primaries, and to his anticipated defeat in Nove reply to O'Leary: