Evening journal., 1920-11-19
TUMULTY IN
BLEACHERS soon
Election Landed Him Awful
WalIop, But He Bobbed
Up Smiling
WILSON'S MAN OF
ABIDING LOYALTY


WASHINGTON. Nov. 40. - When
Woodrow Wilson eoes away from The
Mhile H0ust next March. his fidcs
Achatcs. Man Friday and Admirable
Crichton Will 60. too. Which Is only
another way OF saying that Joseph u.
Tumulty Will be leaving the arena TO
take a at 20 The hle8ehcrs.
Like master, Ike man. Is the
provcrh In The case OF Wilson and
Tumuliy u Is true, with variations.
The variations may b due in large
chief Is Scolch-lrish. Tumulty Is Just
Irish. or as he puts il, Irish with
reservations"
But In The main. Tumully's mind
has always gone along with W J.
sons. q Grta.nly no President eV r
had a more devoted and loyal leu
tenant 10 is not 10 be wondered A.
therefore. That n Wilson aroused
violent antlpalhles, Tunuliy did. too
But here another variation comes 20
light For Wilson. clolstercd as he
was, taciiurn and rather stern,
yearncd for people 10 love him; and
while he reused warm admiration,
decn respect, almost reverence IN
large numbers OF his counirNmcn. ho
was not lhc manner OF man 10 win
other men the way rumulty can Win
them. It's the Irish again, probably.
Anyhow, though The Presidents
secretary has been almost as mucn
cussed and discussed In the eight
years he had be N IN The White House
As his chi-s has httn, he has also won
many Wdrin irifnns by his vii ana
The genuine warm hearted humanness
he can display on occasion.
lhmulty reminds you OF somebody
who does a ct OF bathing In coll
weather He's round and pink ana
happy looklnS. Hes an incorrlglhle
Joker. As hfmic. he could make a
fortune In vaudeville. lie wrote a
speech during ne campaign which
score of hardhoilcd newspaper CORE.
spondents agreed was a gem and
which later moved an audience TO
tears. He's a politician twenly-four
hours a day. He only hero Is Wood
row Wilson.
One on his principal stunts during
his eight years In the White House
hsa been 90 go Into the tiny cuhlcle
they call a press room In The eNccu-
tive ofilcfs. shut The door and tear on
A line OF comedy. Sometimes he was
very funny Sometimes he was rotten
Bue he never was self-c0nscious. Hc
always put everything he had into IT,
10 was then his artistry as a mimic
came out Senator'S. Cabinet officers,
Congressman, cranks, everybody was
gr st to this comedy mill. He was al
ways kind about his fun. He never
bellttled men when mlmlcklng them
II he wanted 10 criticize them, he
chose a different method.
When he goes away from the White
House, Tumulty Is going 10 got on
the side limos and watch the other
poor DEVILS" no says. Maybe he'll
write n hook about his eight years as
a Presidents secretary. A good title
for ~, he thinks. would be Eight
Years OF He'll"
The election hit him sound wal
lnp. But In a day or two he cam
up smiling, and began 20 laugh with
and at his. Democratic friends, A
number OF them. cred with optimism
sent him kilograms and letters some
days bfforc the election, telling him
victory was suro, and even nxlns
pluralltles.
"1fey got so they believed it,"
said Timuliy. why, they oven had
me doing u. YOU remember.
Well. Tumnliy has all lhost tele-
grams and letters. And ono or these
nno nights he's going 10 have the
sroro or moro Democrats who sent
them out 10 his home here. And
when he has them all comfortable
with cigars and-and everything he's
going to read them their kilograms
and letters.
The day afler election a prominent
Democrat called M Tumulty
doe" he said. "rcmmcbor that sp cch
YOU made Tire nights ago at Beth
soda, Md. about Wilson when you
told about what a hlg-hcarled man
he Is. and you had everybody cry
ing7"
Yes, rumuliy remembered n.
well #" went on The namocrat. "yoi
delivered that speech a few days Toe
soon."
why" asked Tumulty.
Because ] can't cry twice"