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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 \ Reliable Glasses If you arc thinking of obtaining glasses, please bear in mind that the financial and professional responsibility of those to whom you entrust the care of your eyes is of greatest impor tance. Ours is a complete organization, devoted exclusively to the scientific examination of eyes and the fitting and grind ing of proper glasses, all for one reasonable charge. Optometrist J, £. Duggan Optician 53 West Mitchell Street, Near New Terminal Station. THE HARROW TIMES. WINDER, GEORGIA. bition. “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.” * # # * Information about the Panama ('anal. Miss Clayton in Senior History j Class: “In what direction does the panama canal flow?” Warren Baggett : “It does’nt flow at all, it has locks on both ends.” Sudden Death of Little Carmen Alice Sellers. 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