The Washington times., 1920-03-30
Mr.. Tumulty Is Still Alive
Thanks TO Remarkable Health and Irish Cheerfulnes

You have heard great deal about many heroes In the
war; from Pershng leading them all to tho private soldier
capturing hundred and nifty Germans with one hano
tied behind his back
But there's a page of glory that yet remains
uncut and that page deals with the patient yuer1ngs
the eternal alday and annight patience OF Joseph r.
the war and after the war; and while the President was
Governor Of New Jersey.
=: Woodrow Wilson is a man who does not sec every
body It is safe to say that about ninety million Amer
loans have tried to him and failed Tumulty mad 10
them ALL talk to them ALL and send them all away happy
- He saw them all day long at the White House. He saw
them before he reached the White House in the morning
He them between mouthfuls while he was eating his
luncheon at the Shoreham And he saw them, over the
telephone after he went to bed at night
The men that called on Tumulty ninety per cent
oriqnal Wilson men, Dozens of them Wilson dele
gates all of them imagined they had special claim for
immediate careful consideration Whether they had 1t
not Tumulty worked all day trying to make each one feel
that he the very that the secretary had
been waiting and hoping for
In the middle of this hard twenty hour grind there
came Senatorial election in New jersey Tumulys State
He could have had the Democratic nomination and first
class chance of being elected The temptation must have
been great for the res Senate wonderful place You
get up in while and say something you feel like It,
otherwise you sit down all the time And you don't have to
see people unless you want TO-
But Tumulty had undertaken job that involved seeing
and pleasing the entire population Of the United States In
war time and he Stuck to It,
Thousands of men and women highly important in their
at least away from Washington full Of
and bitterness but disappointed in Tumulty He had
seen them had done his best to console them had always
been ready put his at and do something if he could
he was they could get to the President And
often they couldn't get very to anybody else OF i'm
portance All of them will testify that Tumuly somehow or
other found time to listen.
Men that had stood cooling their heels outside Of the
Offices of undersappers for hours found that they could
the door when Tumuy teephoned and he willing to
telephone you would give him the number.
Everybody in Washington and everybody that went to
Washington during the will say, Everybody knows
that Tumuty worked like galley slave and did his best
please everybody It is well known that isn't
cary to print it,"
That quite tue nevertheless there is reason for this
tribute to Tumuty's perseverance and patience
It appears that one of thousand men that he
introduced of ten thousand Government subor
climates sued third party for share in the profits Of some
work done for the Government BY the way very
small profit profit making went in those happy days
Hundreds Of newspapers that spent the period
Fostering Tumulty asking hundred favors of him,
took the trouble to mention his constant poteness and
endless patience But many of them fastened to print the
story of New Jersey lawsuit in such way to make 1t
appear that Tumuy might have had interest in the
profit picayune contract.
Tumuy answered it sufficiently by saying that he is
very glad indeed to know, since he had spent his life
recently in introducing friends to strangers and strangers
70 friends that soma one had made somothinr ont