Phonograph To Give Wilson To All Of Us.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 9, 1912:
Planned to Let Nation Hear Him as the Moving Pictures Show Him in Action.
SITS FOR PORTRAIT HERE
Goes to the Theatre In the Evening with His Brother and, as Usual, Avoids Public's Gaze.
    The speech that Gov. Woodrow Wilson delivered to 6,000 assembled Democrats on the lawn at Sea Girt on Wednesday he will probably deliver beginning next week, through phonographic records to as many millions of people as there were thousands to hear it upon the occasion of its first delivery.
    The "canned" version of the speech will of course be abridged and new matter will be added to give it inclusiveness as to issues in the campaign which Gov. Wilson did not feel worked in well with the theme of the original.
    It is planned to send the phonographic records out with the moving pictures so that patrons of the moving picture theatres can see how the Democratic candidate looks at home and also can hear what he has to say about the vital issues.
    Hal Reed, a moving picture man, who took "800 feet of Gov. Wilson," as he expressed it, declared that the moving picture concerns have invested upward of $20.000 in films of Gov. Wilson, and that everywhere they have been shown the pictures have brought hearty applause from the audience.
    In another way Gov. Wilson consented to help along his campaign committee yesterday. There was no portrait of Gov. Wilson available for campaign uses that was considered entirely satisfactory. Seymour Thomas, the artist, had offered as his campaign contribution to make a portrait of the candidate. Early yesterday morning Gov. Wilson came to New York, went at once to the studio of Mr. Thomas, and arranged for a series of sittings. The first sitting occupied all of yesterday afternoon, and two more have been scheduled for to-day, with a luncheon between them, at which the artist will be the host of his subject.
    The outlines of the portrait were sketched yesterday afternoon, Mr. Thomas working in oils. As the Campaign Committee expects to have some difficulty in reproducing an oil portrait, Mr. Thomas has agreed to complete first the oil portrait and then make a drawing from it in black and white. The portrait will probably be far enough along toward completion to-morrow night to allow Gov. Wilson to return to Sea Girt.
    Besides his visit to the studio of Mr. Thomas, Gov. Wilson took a street car ride through Sixth Avenue, had luncheon with his brother, Joseph K. Wilson, city editor of The Nashville Banner, published at Nashville, Tenn., went to the Comedy Theatre in the evening to see "Bunty Pulls the Strings " and held a conference with Josephus Daniels, head of the Publicity Committee of his Campaign Committee at the Hotel Martinque. He submitted to a few questions in the evening.
    "Some curiosity has been expressed," began a questioner, "to know how you feel on the subject of battleships. The platform called for an adequate navy. The Democrats in Congress have shown a disposition to block a naval plan calling for two battleships a year. You did not bring up this matter in your speech accepting the nomination, and is it to be inferred from that that you do not favor a two-battleship plan?"
    "Such an Inference," said Gov. Wilson, "would be entirely wrong. You are not to infer anything from what was left out of my speech of acceptance except that I was saving some ammunition for other speeches, and that there were some subjects that did not happen to fit into the theme I was attempting to develop."
    "Then when may you be expected to take the naval matter up?"
    "Now, it is well understood," said Gov. Wilson, in a manner to indicate that he considered the question superfluous, "that I do not consider it proper to intervene in matters Congress is handling in its own way. In my speech of acceptance I was limited by my desire to take the heart of the platform and the heart of the situation through the country and develop them. I shall, discuss later individual topics in particular localities where they are most interesting to the people."
    One plank in the platform Gov. Wilson's friends do not expect him to mention in the course of his campaign. This is the plank calling for single Presidential terms, and the reason Gov. Wilson will probably ignore it is said by his friends to be that he desires to avoid any possible personal application of its meaning.
    Gov. Wilson came to New York with his brother from Sea Girt in a day coach as far as Atlantic Highlands and thence by the Jersey Central steamer Monmouth to the foot of West Forty-second Street.
    Gov. Wilson wished to take his brother out to see the sights on a Fifth Avenue 'bus. But he decided, that the 'buses were too crowded. So he took him for a trolley ride up Sixth Avenue instead. The brothers were together at dinner at the University Club, and Joseph Wilson brought with him two theatre tickets.
    Gov Wilson and his brother had seats in the third row of the orchestra. They came to the theatre on foot, and the Governor was not even recognized by the attaches of the house when he entered.
    William A. Brady, the manager, gave orders that nothing should be done or said on the stage to attract attention to the Governor until the end of the play. The moment the final curtain fell, however, Miss Molly McIntyre, who plays the title role in "Bunty Pulls the Strings," stepped forward as the curtain rose for a second time and threw a bunch of roses to the Governor with well-directed aim, exclaiming as she did so:
    "To Gov, Woodrow Wilson, the wee bonnie laddie who will be the next President of the United States."
    There was great applause and the crowd refused to leave the theatre. Several persons made repeated demands for a speech. Finally Mr. Brady went down a side aisle and beckoned Gov. Wilson to come out that way. After a moment of conversation Mr. Brady took the Governor back to the stage and introduced him to Miss McIntyre and several of the other leading players.
    Gov. Wilson expressed himself as delighted with the play and added:
    "You know I am Scotch too. The cut of my chin would tell you that."