Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-01
TUMULTY SAVES HIS
CHIEF FROM ERROR
Private Secretary of President
Man Who Stopped Post
script" From Going.
STARTLING INSIDE STORY

New York, Oct. 31.-(Special Te1e-
gram. George c. Warren, jr., well
known resident of JERSEY City, one of
the republican candidates for presi-
dental elector in New Jersey, declares
that he is in position positively to
confirm the statement by Senator
Lodge regarding the so-called post
script to the Lusitania note" Mr.
Warren says that he has information
directly from a member OF Mr.. Will
sons official family, whose name, for
obvious reasons, he is not at liberty
to give.
Note to Gerard.
The story, as Mr.. Warren has it.
is that the postscript was not in the
form Of an addition to the note for
transmission to the German govern
ment, but in the form OF supplemental
instructions to Ambassador Gerard
who was to convey TO the German
government the information that the
note had been written for American
consumption. Mr.. Warren's story is
| that the man who prevented this in
/ struction being sent to Ambassador
Gerard was Joseph P. Tumulty, sec.
rotary to the president.
| According to Mr.. Warren's INFORM
ant, Mr.. Tumulty realized the politi
cal danger to his chief Of sending
such a message, and went to Lindley
NJ. Garrison, then secretary of war
and urged Mr.. Garrison to exert hi:
influence to prevent the instruction
being sent. Mr.. Garrison replied tha
he had no influence with he<presiden
and that it was not worth while fol
him to attempt to interfere, that Post
master General Burleson was the mar
whom Mr., Tumulty should endeavol
to interest
Burleson Backs Up.
Mr.. Warren's informant says tina
Mr.. Tumulty did go to POSTMASTER
General Burleson and succeeded il
arousing Mr.. Burleson to the impor
lance Of stopping the telegram. Mr.
Burleson agreed that the messag,
should be stopped, Mr., Tumulty tool
the responsibility of having the sup
Elemental message held up to avail
| further orders. Mr.. Tumulty and Mr.
Burleson .thereupon went to the presl
dent and laid theN case before him
The president did not agree with thei
presentation of the matter. He ar
4 gued that the American people do no
want wat, were opposed to getting
into war, and that the course lai'
down in his instruction to Ambassa
dor Gerard was in accordance witt
the feeling Of the country. This ar
gument satisfied Postmaster Genera
Burleson, who withdrew his objec
ton. Mr.. Tumulty, however, contin
ued to object very strenuously upo
the ground that to send such instrue
. tons would be a fatal political error
Lansing Carried Point.
Mr., Tumulty then sought Mr., Ian
sing, who, at that time was counselo
! OF the State department Mr., Ian
/ sing saw Mr., Tumulty's point at once
: and agreed with him, and Lansing an
!, Tumulty went back to the presiden
4 and succeeded in convincing the pres
dent of the importance of withdraw
,, ing the supplemental instruction t
Ambassador Geyard. 1t was whe
Mr.. Bryan was informed definitel
! that his instruction to Mr.. Gerard ha
been withheld that he resigned a
t secretary of state.
Mr., Warren declares that the sourc
. of his information is such that Their
d can be absolutely no question as
its reliability.