the good things he did was the income tax, direct election of senators and women suffrage.
You do realize that none of those were due to Wilson. Leaving aside the fact that Presidents can do nothing except make use of the bully pulpit to get amendments passed, he didn't even do that much. The 16th and 17th Amendments were sent to the States for ratification while Taft was President. New Jersey (where Wilson had been governor) never ratified the 16th and only ratified the 17th after Wilson had resigned as Governor to become President. (Not that Governors have anything more to do with passing amendments than do Presidents, but you'd think that if he were staunchly behind them, he'd have have gotten New Jersey to ratify them before he resigned on March 1.)
On Women's suffrage the evidence is quite clear that he had to be dragged into supporting it once it became the politically popular thing to do.
All I was saying that he was one of the first Democratic reform president of our time. He took alot of initiatives of the Teddy Roosevelt era and perhaps if Hughes would of been president he would of done the same. Woodrow Wilson, first Democratic reform president.
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