Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-29
CLOSEUP OF PRESIDENT
Is DRAWN BY TUMULTY
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NOT GOT II off my heart If had tn
ho lano II ,ra, ,.i,,b+ No+bino
else was possible put l cannot lor-
set that it was | who had to order
those young men to their deaths"
Tho Canine of Worm Cruz
1,,-,li., h.. ,.a,, IT., ,,,o,1
ECU ''e' '''"t Se'l "i''ii WV Vt
came mat u German NesseI. !adeh
with munitions, was on its way to
Mexico, President Wilson talked
,,,o,. ,ro to1orbor, with coc,otarios
i'I yam anu pa''lelS' an" Mr' u
muIty SAID ne was also on the tcIe-
phono during the conversation,
When the situation had been stated
to the president. he said, THE
voice came back, clear and urn;
order Admiral Mayo to take Vera
cruz ut once"
Just before l cut off the con-
nection, Secretary TumuIty con
ttnued, I said a word to the presI-
dent about the tragedy of it all.
His voice responded, no longer
clear. but mutfled, as when one
chokes back q sob What do you
think of it, Tumulty? 1t means
death. 1t breaks my heart. but II
must he done.
Secretary Tumultv recalled also
Mr. Wilson'S determination TO ride
in the funeral procession of the
marines and sailors killed at Vera
Cruz when the bodies were brought
TO New York. Disquieting rumorS
that an attack was planned on his
life had reached secret service
men, Mr. Tumultv said, and "ont
undertook to argue with him, say
ing: You will show all proper re
spect by appearing in the review
ing stand The country can no
/ afford 10 lose it's president
Took IA Yank's Chance.
Ills reply was: The Countr,
! cen not afford to have n coWart
\ for president This was his brie
l and final answer. He rode in tn
I procession
The sternness of Woodrow VIII
SON his secretary declared, wa
"iust the reverse side of his hu
name nature and made "nothin
more natural" than that he shout
have become the champion o
small nations. The presidents IN
sistcnce upon Article y OF tn
league covenant was explained a
a wish to forestall the necessity q
the United States going 10 war D
making it a participant IN a pla
to prevent the beginning OF sue
war"
"lle wished to stop inc next WA
before it should begin, MT. lu
multy said. -,
In contrast to Mr.. wilson sen
proclaimed passion lot peato'
Secretary Tumulty declared una
when the challenge came ifoi
| Germany to America, when IN
American mind was ready loT r. wa
this same woodrow NilSo
became the most uncompromiSlh
advocate of the most sulhser
measures for conducting the wa
thereby to hasten the end or IN
war The speaker recallo u g. ~ ~
presidents speech to officers or IN
Atlantic fleet in 1917, pupilSilt
long after, in which he sald al
willing to sacrifice half the nav
Great Britain and we together nav
to crush the submarine nests.
Favored Supreme Command.
at was he" Secretary Ium ll!,'
continued who INSISTED on mum ~
the North sea to cut off the Gei
man hornets. Experts sal
that it could not be done IN
civilian Wilson said it could d
done. must be done, and 1t wa
1t was the civilian Wilson Wh
broachod the plan for coinplhiii
the allied powers in the west unde
the supreme command of Gener'
Foch, in order that all the alile
forces could be concentrated on III
German forces to crush them.
"Iu his mind the supreme o.
ject Of this war was to end war"
The grave fault" which SCI
rotary Tumulty asserted, he foun
with the president, was his igno'
ance of how to play to the ga
lery.' rl
Not a Front Pager.
"He does not know how to cap