Page had known Colonel House for many years and was the advocate who convinced the sagacious Texan that Woodrow Wilson was the man.

Wilson also acquired the habit of referring to Page men who offered themselves to him as volunteer workers in his cause.

"Go and see Walter Page" was his usual answer to this kind of an approach.

But Page was not a collector of delegates to nominating conventions; not his the art of manipulating these assemblages in the interest of a favoured man; yet his services to the Wilson cause, while less demonstrative, were almost as practical.

His talent lay in exposition; and he now took upon himself the task of spreading Wilson's fame.