The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-11-18
TUMULTY WILL LEAVE 4. +.
WHITE HOUSE IN MARCH
L., BY L.. g. Martin s~g
Omitted Press Correspondent

a. (UulteV FTeSS %COTFeSVOHueALJE "A
Washington, Nov. 1s. When
Woodrow Wilson goes away from the
White House next March, his fidus
Achates, Man Friday and Admirable
Crichton win go too. Which is only
another way Of saying that Joseph F.
Tumuny will be leaving the arena to
take seat in the bleachers. T.t,'s n Va
Like master, like man." is the
proverb. In the case OF Wilson and
Tumulty,~ it is true, with variations.
The variations may be due in large
measure to the fact that while his
chief is Scotch-Irish, Tumulty is just
Irish, or as he himself puts it, Irish
with reservations" '> fs,:92ES4'@.l -; = +
But in the main, Tumulty's mind
has always "gone along" with Will
sons. Certainly no president ever
! had more devoted and loyal lieu
| tenant. 1t is not to be wondered at,
! therefore, that if Wilson aroused vio-H
lent antipathies, Tumulty did too.
! But here another variation comes to
light. Fer Wilson, clustered as he
| was, ztaciturn and rather stern,
| yearned for people to love him; and
| while he reused warm admiration,
deep respect, almost reverence in
| large numbers of his countrymen, he
| was not the manner of man to win
other men ,the way Tumulty can win
them. It's the Irish again, probably.
anyhow. though the Presidents
secretary has been almost as much
cussed and discussed in the eight
! years he has been in. the White
House as his chief has been, he has
also won many warm friends by his
wit and the genuine Warm-hearted
humaness he can display on occasion.
,Tumulty reminds you CT somebody
who does a lot Of bathing in cold
water. He's round and pink and
happy looking. He's an incorrigible
Joker. AS mimic, he could make a
fortune in vaudeville. He wrote a
speech during the campaign which a
score. of hardboiled newspaper cor
respondents agreed was a gem and
which later moved an audience to
tears. He's a politician "a hours a
day. His only hero is Woodrow Will
son. VIII -, 49, r~'
One of his principal stunts during
his eight years in the White House
has been to go into the tiny cubicle
hthey call a press room in the eXecu-
tive offices, shut the door and tear,
off line of comedy. Sometimes he
was very funny. Sometimes he was
rotten. But he never was self con-
scious. He always put everything
he had into it. 1t was then his artis
try as mimic came out. Senators,
cabinet officers; congressman, cranks,
everybody was grist to his comedy
mill. He was always kind about his
fun. He never belittled men when
mimicking them. 1t he wante>., to
criticize them, he chose different
method.
When he goes away from the
White House, Tumulty is going to
"get on the side lines anu watch
the other poor DEVILS" he says. May
years as a Presidents secretary. A
good title, for it, he thanks. would
be Eight Years of He'll"
The election hit him sound wal
lOp. But in a day or two he came
up smiling, and began to laugh with
and at his Democratic friends.
A number of them, fired with opti-
mism sent him kilograms and let
tiers some days before the election.
telling his victory was sure, and even
fixing pluralities.
>"They got SO they believed it,,
said Tumulty. "Why they even had
doing it,. you remember"
Well, Tumulty has all those tele-
grams and letter. And one Of these
fine nights he's going to have the
score, or more Democrats who sent
them out to his home here. And
when he has them all comfortable,
with cigars. and--and everything,