The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-11-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
The White House

used the expression IN a campaign
speech at Bethesda, Md, one of the
suburbs of Washington, Thursday
night before election. The Presidents
friend and Secretary felt that the end
of Mr.. Wilson's political career was
near, he said, and he could reveal
some of the secrets Of the White
House invalid. He drew a pathetic
picture of President Wilson's longing
for the love and confidence of the
people of the country and his own in
faceable belief that he could never
get either because he was eternally
misrepresented and his finer feelings
eternally misunderstood.
Mr. Tumulty declared that the
President abhorred war and could not
understand the applause that met his
war message. for to him this forced
ultimatum was horrible, if necessary
and inevitable.
Mr.. Tumulty dramatically pictured
the President broken in health, re-
viewing the World War Veterans
parade recently in wheel chair from
the White House veranda.
Gin that procession there appears
an ambulance laden with wounded
soldiers, the manned, the halt and the
blind" said Mr.. Tumulty. GAS they
pass they salute, slowly, reverantly.
The Presidents right hand goes up in
answering salute. l glanced at him.
There were tears in his eyes. The
wounded is greeting the wounded;
those in the ambulance, he in the
chair, are alike casualties"
The Secretary to the President was
referring to the parade of the E'Vet-
Grams of Foreign Wars" who staged
their march down Pennsylvania Ave
nue. just at dusk. The sun had slip
ped clear down behind the distant
hills and electric lights were cleaning
in long rows among the empowering
trees on the streets and avenues.
Reviewing From the Portico
President Wilson, in his wheel
chair on the Blue Room balcony of
the White House, which faces the
Monument Grounds, saw through the
long vista of nearly an eighth of a
mile the shadowy outlines of the
badged and medaled men as they
marched, company front, around the
back of the White House grounds,
saluting as they crossed the vista the
dark form on the distant portico.
1t was all very dramatic and an in
tetresting historical event.
President Wilson sat in the same
place on Memorial Day to view the
morning parade of the G. A. R. vet
Grams before they went TO Arlington.
Mr. TumuIty concluded his won
derfully sympathetic plea for Mr..
Wilson as follows:
Woodrow Wilson will have his
monuments; the future generations
will see him clear-eyed and unpre-
JUDGED as one of Americas i'm
rnortals; but l want him to live to
realize that he has a place in the
warm hearts of his countrymen while
he lives. l want him to realize that
wish which he expressed several years
ago when he said, 4 want people to
love me- 1 want him to realize that
he was modestly mistaken when he
said, 'They never will!
Want Him to Live
The Secretary to the President
voiced the hope of millions of Amer
leans when he said he wanted Presi-
dent Wilson to live to receive the
homage of the world for the great
achievements of his administration
Newspaper people have known for
more than a year that President Viii
son would never recover from the
paralytic stroke which left him
broken and helpless just when he was
in the prime of life. But there is an
esprit de corps which holds the news
paper fraternity from telling all it
knows when the telling would serve
no good purpose. At least this is
true of all decent newspapers.
The President has lifted the ban OF
secrecy. The world now knows that
President Wilson is hopelessly help
less invalid, and that this condition
was from the first held to be certain
That his brain has withstood the
pressure and is as virilely active al
it ever has been is accounted wonder
full.
The following, written for the At
lanta (Ga.) Journal by Theodor'
Tiller, the personal friend of thu
President, gives a graphic picture o
the "old, bowed, broken man" de
scribed so tenderly by Mr.. Tumulty
Mr.. Tiller says:
Beyond what the President sal
to the delegation of pro-League Re
publicans who came to the Whit
House to tell him that they put pa
triotism above party in the presen
critical hour is the story of the phys
zeal appearance of Woodrow Wilso
revealing to the little group priv
LEGGED to see him, how sick Mr.. Wi
son and has been,