Evening star., 1913-03-02
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the Presidents secretary was considered
of necessity the pink of perfection from
the social stand point and his was post
more ornamental than utilitarian. There
have been other times, as In Grant ad-
ministra ton when ii was given over en-
tirely TO military aids and the army con-
sidered the post It's own. There nave
been still other Presidents who have held
their secretaries should be the official
patters OF backs and shakers Of hands.
Since the DAYS OF Cortelyou. Loeb and
Hil}es. however. this is all changed. The
duty OF the secretary has become that OF
accomplishing the business of the execn-
tive office. wedding out the chaf. advis-
ing his chief. dspatchng the less i'm
nortant detail Those men have come
from the realm of the strictly profes-
sional handlers of affairs. and have oeen
advanced because Of their capacities
along that line. and. having gained the
post at the White House, have continued
their policy To their capacities Tumuity
adds the genial temperament or true
son of the Emerald Isle.
But this name itself. before going any
farther should be understood. particu-
Iarlv with reference to its pronunciation.
1t is not pronounced as though IT had
anything to do with :ulnnlt ana was
synonymous with stormy. Far from II.
There is no ilI-omcn in the name of Tum-
ulty The accent is on the first syllable.
''Tum." and II is pronounced exactly as
is baby's 'tum tum. You are asked TO
go strong on the 'Tum.' Then YOU sur
the remaining syllables as though they
were of little Importance. You have Inc
word properly pronounced-"TCM Multy.
This Irishman. Tumulty. first saw the
light of day in the busy center OF Jersey
City. His father was hard-worklnS
molder by trade. who had been born anu
gotten a good start on the sOdS of old
Ireland before he came to this country.
Young Tumuty spent his first years in
the tenement section of Jersey City, where
he measured brain and brawn with the
Youngsters of his kind in the work and
PLAY that made Up the life of those mar
row streets.
Later the elder Tumulty got into the
business of contracting. as 1rishmen are
so prone to do. and when that TIM ar
rived when the AmericaniZed Celts eman-
cipated themselves from the performance
of manual labor and began to boss ltal-
ians i'm the performance OF that labor,
Tumultv WAS among the first of them. 1t
was not long. therefore, until this Irish
family found itself in the midst of
great american prosperity which II has
steadily enjoyed for quarter OF CEN
tury.
So Young Joseph Patrick Tumulty went
to the school of st. Vincent de Paul,
where he secured an excellent education
as we'll as an orthodox training. Having
come to manhood and the instincts of his
race having directed him toward pubic
life. young Tumulty decided to be law
yer and attended the New York Law
School with that idea in mind.
Hardly had he hung out his shinGle. and
certainly il is not recorded that he had
secured a cla,t, before an election pre-
scented itself. Ioung Tumulty name was
upon the ticket for seat in the state
legislature. He was elected. For three
terms in succession the count of the bal
lots showed that Tumulty was still the
choice of the people of his district for the
place in the legislature.
Now there is an unwritten law in the
democratic machine politics of Jersey
City. community which knows organ
ization well, that no man shall have
seat in the state Legislature for more than
three terms in succession. Tumulty found