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Tumulty Says Wilson Is Broken
Man , Yearning For Love of
A merican People
Washington, < let. 29. An inti
mate pic ture “of the manner of
uiau this Woodrow Wilson really
is. twscd on ten years as his pri
vate secretary and touched here |
and there with hitherto unpublish-j
ed incidents in the president’s of-,
(trial life was drawn last night by
Joseph .( Tumulty, shaking at aj
Democratic mass meeting, just
over the tine in Maryland.
Mr. Tumulty described the presi
dent “as a man strangely misun
derstood by some and as violently
misrepresented by others as any
man in (lie history of American
polities.’’ lie had long desired, lie
said, to tell the country what, he
knew of .Mr. Wilson's character,
but had refrained in the knowl
edge* that the president, who
shrinks from self-exploitation
would resent exploitation by his
friends. ’ ’
With the approach of Mr Wil
son’s retirement to private life,
however. Secretary Tumulty con
tinued. “it seems to me not ini
t I
proper that just before the curtain
rises on the last act, I modestly
step out from my obscurity ill the
wings, and tell the audience a few
things about the leader in this
great drama of the past eight
years.”
Secretary for Ten Years.
Recalling liis ten years in the “in
limate relationship of a private
secretary,” the speaker said:
“I may he presumed to know at
least as much about him as the
gentlemen who discourse volu
bly of him in Pullman smokers, on
the golf links, and in the clubs,
who assure you that all they say it
fact—for they had it on the word
of a friend of a friend who passed
through Washington once and
heard a man sav that another man
said, cte.”
Among incidents on wliieli he
drew to illustrate his subject, Mr.
Tumulty recalled the reaction of
the president to the applause of
whieh greeted delivery of his war
message to congress on April 6th,
1917.
“On that fateful day.” Secretary
Tumulty said, ”1 rode with him
hack from the eapitol to the White
House, the echo of the applause
still ringing in my ears. For a
■while he sat silent and pale in the
cabinet room. At last he said:
Think what it was they were ap
plauding. It means death for our
young men. How strange it seems
to applaud that. ”.
“That simple remark." Secreta
ry Tumulty continued, “is one key
to an understanding of Woodrow
Wilson,” w ho. he said, hated and
dreaded war with “all of the fi
bers of his human soul.
As further evidence of ihe pres
ident’s sense of responsibility in
Ihe blood shed by American sol
diers. Mr. Tumulty told of the day
when news came of American cas
ualties at Vera Cruz in 1914.
“When the news came, he said.
4 ‘the president was quiet all day.
He went about his business method
ically, with his usual clear judg
ment and pi-ompt decisions, hut
that night he sat silent tor a long
time. At last he said: l cannot
get it off my heart. It had 1o bo
done. It was right. Nothing else
was possible: but T cannot lorget
that it was T who had to order
those young men to their deaths.
Earlier that year, when word
came “that a (lernian vessel, laden
with munitions, was on its way to
Mexico,’' I 1 resident Wilson talked
over the telephone wire with Sec
retaries Bryan and Daniels, and
Mr. Tumulty said he also was on
the telephone during the conversa
tion. When the situation had been
stated to the president, he said,
“the voice came back, clear and
firm : ‘Order Admiral Mayo to take
Vera Cruz at once.’ ’’
“Just before I cut off the con
nection,’’ continued the secretary,
“I said a word to the president
about the tragedy of it all. His
voice responded, i|> longer clear,
but muffled, as when one chokes
back a sob: ‘What do you think of
it Tumulty? It means death. It
breaks my heart, but it must he
done.
Secretary Tumulty recalled also
Mr.Wilson’s determination to ride
in the funearl procession of the
marines and sailors killed at A era
Cruz when the bodies were
brought to New York. Disquiet
ing rumors that an attack was
planned on his life had reached se
cret service men. Mr. Tumulty
said “one undertook to argue with
him. saying: ‘You will show all
proper respect by appearing in
the reviewing stand. The country,
cannot afford to lose its president.j
‘His reply was :‘The eoiinlry can’t
afford to have a coward for presi
dent.’ 'This was his brief and fi
nal answer, lie rode in the prunes
• }
sum.
The sternness of Woodrow wil
son, his secretary declared, was
‘just the reverse side of his human
[nature,” and made “nothing more
I natural” than lie should become
the champion of small nations.
The president’s insistence upon
Article 10 of the league covenant
was explained as a wish to fore
stall tin* necessity of the 1 nited
States going to war by making it
a participant “in a plan to pre
vent the beginning of such a war.’
‘ lie wished to stop the next
war before it should begin,’’’ Mr.
Tuniultv said.
President’s Determination
In contrast to Mr. Wilson’s sell
proclaimed passion for peace. See
rotary Tumulty declared t h a t
“when the challenge came from
tienmmy to America, when the A
mcrican mind was ready for war.
. . this same Woodrow Wilson
became the most uncompromising
advocate of the most stringent
measures for conducting the war,
thereby to hasten the end of the
war.” The speaker recalled the
president’s speech to officers
of the Atlantic fleet in 1917. pub
lished long after, in which he said :
“I am willing to sacrifice half the
navy Great Britain and we togeth
or have to crush the submarine
nest.”
“It was he,” Secretary Tumul
ty continued,”who insisted on min
ing the North Sea to cut oft the
Herman hornets . . . .Experts said
that it could not be done. The ci
vilian. Wilson, said it could be
done, must be done and it was. It
was the civilian Wilson who
broached the plan for combining
the allied powers in the west un
der the supreme command of Gen
eral Foch in order that all the al
lied forces could he concentrated
on the Herman forces to crush
them. In his mind the supreme oh
ject of this war was to end war.”
The “ grave fault” which See-
Tumulty asserted he found with
the president, was his ignorance of
“how to play to the gallery.’’
“He does not know how to cap
italize his virtues for the front
pages of the newspapers,” he said.
“He is dreadffully poor publicity
material. Human from his heart
to the finger tips,he vines not know
how to put his humanity on c\hi
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“As liis friend aiul admirer, 1
have loved him better because he
didn’t. There was something too
fine in liis nature for tlie dramatic
posturings of the political game a*
it is usually played.”
The secretary told of a journal
ist who wished to have the presi
dent “do one of the stunts that the
public dearly loves to read about”
and of the comment of the presi
dent.
A Wounded Soldier.
“He said to me: “Tumulty,
you roust realize that I am not'
built for these things. 1 do not i
want to he displayed before the'
public. If 1 tried to do it I would'
do it badly. I want people to love!
me. but they never will.”
“I have never forgotten the wist
fill tones in which he spoke those j
last four words: “but they never
will,” Secretary Tumulty said.
f l'.i .. film I I vl/lf t 1 1l Ali \I n 'l' ill., 11l
Two final pictures, Mr. Tumul
ty said In* desired to draw,the first
that of the president in 1917, “a
straight, vigorous, slender man,
active and alert. ’’
“lie is tiO years of age,” lie
said, “but lie looks not more than
4b, so lithe of limb, so alert of
hearing, so virile. It is Woodrow
Wilson reading his great war mes
sage.
“The other picture is only three
and a half years later. There is
a parade of veterans of the great
war. They are to be reviewed by
the president on the east teraee of
the White House. In a chair sits
a man, your president, broken in
health, but still alert.in mind. His
hair is white, his shoulders bowed,
his figure bent. He is 63 years old
hut he looks older. It is Wood
row Wilson.
“Presently in the procession
there appears an ambulance laden
with wounded soldiers, the maim
ed and the halt and the blind. As
they pass, they salute slowly rev
erently.
“The president’s right hand
goes up in answering salute. I
glanced at him. There were tears
in his eyes. The wounded is greet
ing the wounded: those in the am-
bulance, he in the chair, are alike,
casualties of the great, war.
“I don’t believe in his heart
President Wilson regrets his
wounds. 1 fancy he realizes no
man could die in a greater cause,
hut I do sometimes wonder if it
ever seems to him strange that
when a man has been seriously
wounded in his country’s service
that- he should be met with sneers
and caulrnnies from his country
men.”
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