The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-11-25
Reveals Story of Eight Years In
White House; Calls Him War
Casualty; Says President
Sought Peoples Love,
But Without Hope
Paints Vivid Picture of .'Sneers and
Calumnies" Aimed at Man .'Seri-
ously Wounded i'm His Country's
Service" - Hated and Dreaded
War, Secretary Says-Depressed
by Deaths of L. $. Heroes.

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private secretary and touched here
and there with hitherto unpublished
incidents in the Presidents official
life was drawn last week by Joseph
p. Tumulty. speaking at a Demo
cratic mass meeting at Bethesda
just over the line in Maryland.
Mr.. Tumulty described the Presi-
dent as "a man as strangely misun-
derstood by some and as violently
misrepresented by others as any
man in the whole history of Ameri.
can 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
exploitation by his friends"
Reviews Intimate Details
With the approach of Mr.. Will
sons retirement to private life,
however, Secretary Tumulty con-
tinued, ''it seems to me not improp-
er that just before the curtain rises
on the last act | modestly step out
from my security in the wings, and
tell the audience a few things about
the leading actor in this great
drama of the past eight years.
Recalling his ten years in the
intimate relationship of a private
secretary" the speaker said:
Il may be presumed to know al
least as much about him as the
gentlemen who discourse volubly OF
him in Pullman smokers, on the
golf links and in the clubs, who as
sure you that all they say is fact
for they had it on the word of a
friend of friend who passed
through Washington once and
heard a man say that another mar
said &c"
Among incidents on which he
drew to illustrate his subject, Mr.
Tumulty recalled the reaction of the
President to the applause which
greeted delivery of his war message
to Congress on April 6, 1917.
Hated and Dreaded War
"On that fateful day." Secretary
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 sat silent and pale in the
cabinet room. At last he said
Think what it was they were ap.
plauding. 1t means death for our
young men. How strange it seems
to applaud that
THAT simple remark" Secretar,
Tumulty continued, 'is one key Il
an understanding of Woodrow Viii
son." who. he said, hated and dread
ed war with "all of the fibers of hi:
human soul"
As further evidence of the Presi
dents sense of responsibility in tn,
blood shed by American soldiers
Mr.. Tumulty told of the day wher
news came of American casualties
at Vera Cruz in 1914.
Depressed by Battle
when the news came" he said
1.-The President was quiet all day
He went about his business me
thodieally, with his usual cleai
judgment and prompt decisions
but that night he sat silent for
long time. At last he said: ''
cannot get it off my heart 1t ha,
to be done. 1t was right. Nothin,
else was possible, but l cannot for
get that it was | who had to orde
those young men to their Deaths"
Earlier that year, when wor,
came that German vessel, ladei
with munitions. was on its way L
Mexico" President Wilson talke,
over the telephone wire with Secre
taries Bryan and Daniels, and MI
Tumulty said he also was on tn
telephone during the conversation
When the situation had been state
to the President he said, ''the voic
came back clear and firm: 'Orde
Admiral Mayo to take Vera Cruz a
once.
Just before | cut off the come,
tion," Secretary Tumulty contir
ued, II said word to the Pres
dent about the tragedy of it all. HI
voice responded, no longer clea
but mufned, as when one choke
back sob: What do you think {
1t, Tumulty? 1t means death.
breaks my heart, but 1t must /
done'"
HonOred Dead Heroes
Secretary Tumulty recalled alc
Mr.. Wilson's determination to rit
in the funeral procession of the M
rines and sailors killed at Vel
Cruz when their bodies we
brought to New York. Disquietir
rumors that an attack was plannt
on his life had reached secret Sc
vice men, Mr.. Tumulty said, al
zone undertook to argue with hin
saying: You will show all prop
respect by appearing in the revie'
l ing stand. The country cannot 8
t ford to lose its President
, "His reply wcs: The count
l cannot afford to have a coward
. President This was his brief a.
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