The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-11-02
INTIMATE PICTURE
WOODROW WILSON
TUMULTY TELLS "MANNER OF
MAN" PRESIDENT IS.
Speaks After Ten Years as Private
Secresary-Misanderstood and
Violently Misrepresented

Washington, Oct. 2S.-An mtl-
mate picture of the manner Of man
this Woodrow Wilson really is," bas-
| ed on ten years as his private Sec
retary and touched here and there
with hitherto unpublished incidents
in the presidents official life was
drawn tonight by Joseph P. Tumulty,
speaking at Democratic mass meet
ing, just over the line in Maryland.
Mr.. Tumulty described the presi-
dent Gas a man as strangely misun-
derstcod by some and as violently
misrepresented by others as any man
in the whole history Of American
politics" He had long desired, he
said, to tell the country what he.
knew of Mr.. Wilson's character, but
had refrained in the knowledge that
the president "who shrinks from
self-exploitation Would resent ex-
ploitation by his friends"
With the approach of Mr.. Wilson's
retirement to private life, however,
Secretary Tumulty continued, III
seems to me not improper that just
before the curtain rises on the LAST
act, I modestly step out from my
obscurity in the wings and tell the
public a few things about the leading
actor in this great drama of the past
eight years."
On Fateful Day.
Among incidents on which he drew
to illustrate his subject, Mr. Tumulty
recalled the reaction a{ the president
to the applause which crested de-
livery Of his war message to con-
gress on April 6, .191zsRszes.,s q q q
"On that fateful day." Sectetary
Tumulty said, 81 rode with him back
from the capitol to the White House,
the echo of the applause still ringing
in my ears. For a while he cat si-s
lent and pale in the cabinet room.
At last he said: Think what it was
they were applauding. 1t means death
for our young men. How strange it
seems to applaud that
'That simple remark" Secretary
Tumulty continued, "is one key to
an understanding Of Woodrow VIII
son." who, he said, hated and dread
ed war with "all the ibres Of his
human SOUL"
Secretary Tumulty recalled Mr..
Wilson's determination to ride in the
funeral procession Of the marines
and sailors killed at Vera Cruz when
their bodies were brought to New
York. Disquieting rumors that an
attack was planned on his life and
reached secret service men, Mr.. Tu-
multy said, and zone undertook, to
argue with him SAYING, You will
show all proper respect by appearing
in the reviewing stand. The country
can not afford to lose its president.
"His reply was: The country can
not afford to have coward for pres
ident.' This was his brief and final
answer. He rode in the procession.
The sternness of Woodrow Wilson,
his secretary declared, was "just the
reverse side of his human nature
and nothing more natural than
that he should have become the
champion of small nations. The
presidents insistence upon Article
10 of the league covenant was ex-
planned as a wish to forestaI the ne
cessity of the United States going to
war by making it a participant "n
plan to prevent the beginning OF
such a war"
In contrast to Mr.. Wilson's self
proclaimed passion for peace" Sec
retary Tumulty declared that when
the challenge came from Germany
when American mind was ready for
war this same Woodrow VIII
son became the most uncompromls-
ing advocate of the most stringent
measures for conducting the war,
thereby to hasten the end OF the
war"
Mining North Sea.
"It was he," Secretary Tumulty
continued, "who insisted on mining
the North Sea to cut off the German
hornets. Experts said that it
could not be done. The civilian Will
son said it could be done, must be
done and it was. 1t was the civilian :
Wilson who broached the plan for
combining the allied powers in the
West under the supreme command OF