Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-10-29
Intimately Related.

Intimately Rfiaifd.
Recalling his ten years IN the Init.
mntc relationship Of q private secretary,
the speaker Eiid:
II may be- presumed to know at least
ns much about him as the gentlemen
who discourse voluhly ~ him In Pull
an smokers. ON the solf links and IN
the clubs. who assuc you that all thcs
lay N fact for they had Il on me word
Of friend of a friend of friend. who
"g.f through Washington once art
heard maa say that another MAJ
said. etc"
Among Incidents on which he drew
10 Illustrate his subject, Mr.. Tumultv
ccall Il IA. reaction ~ the president 90
he applause which greeted delivery of
his war message To congress on April
o. 1917.
"on that fateful day" Secretary tn.
multy said. Il rode with him back from
hr cnpitl to the White House. the
ocho 0f the applause stIll ringing ~
ay ears For a while he sat silent and
pale in the cabinet room. At last h.
iid
Think what n was they were ar.
plaudng II means death for our young
cn. How strange II seems 10 applaud
hnt
That simple remark" Mr.. Tumulty
'untlnu.d. is one key q an understand
INK ~ Woodrow Wilson" who. he sail.
attd and dreaded war with "all of the
d rcs u his human soul"
A. further evidence uf the presidents
sense 81 responsibility IN the hloodshel
.y Americas soldiers Mr.. Tumulty told
the dny when news came of Amerl-
81. L..
when the news came" he said. "tfs
president was quiet all day lie went
about his business mcthodically with
his usual clear judgment aud prompt
fcris'ons hnt that night. he sat silent
for long time. AZ last he said:
~ can not get II of my heart. II
h1d o. he done II was right. Nothing
'se wss possible but eaa rot forget
that Il was l who had 10 order thOs"
tHuur mt. o. fhn'r 4 rfN ."
Wilson No Coward.
Secretary rumulty recalled also Mr..
Wilson's determination Co ride In IN"
t.rpfHl Procession nf thu marines and
sailors Killed NJ Vera cruz when thH
bodies were brought % New York. lbls'
uul,t,ng rumurs that nm attack was
planned on his iiiu hal reached secret
s"rvic. men. Mr. Tumulty slid, and one
undertook o. argue with him saying:
You viii SHOW al proper respect hy
appearing in the reviewing stand. IT,.
rlnrtry ran not afford 90 lose its pr ST
don't
itis replv was. The country can nut
afford a. have a coward for president
This was his brief and final answer.
30, roir in the procession.
9TH, st,fnn--- ~ Woodrow Wilson.
a. srtr.tit, declared. was just the re-
verse side ot his humane nature and
p. - hing mote natural than ne
should have hcvomc the companion Q;
small nations
The presidents insistenCc upon Art.
,la y uf tho league covenant was eS'
uliiusl as a way to furesttll the ncce'-
sIty 90 thu United States going TO war
hy making 10 H participant IN a plan
tu prevent the beginning ot such
war
~, wished to stop the next war be-.
fore d should begin" Mr. Tumultv said.
lo ,uutrsv a. Mr Wilson's sci. pro.
DlIu,i 'tasson Tor peace" Secretary
Tumuity declared that when the cha''
lrur, rumr .-om Germany 60 Amerita.
v hen the American mind was ready Toe
var. this -lmc Woodrow Wilson be-
.Hmp the MOST uurnnpromi>inT ad.t.
cato 1t IN most tringcni measures Tor
.4nturt'rr the var thereby % hastei
the end of the war.
Man of iction.
IT.. .u,aNsr recalled the presi1eNtS
., ...h o. nf0ears ~ the Atlantic fleet
in 1917. published long after. IN which
- ... viiiluc e. sacrifice half
tho navy Great Britain and we together
..... fa crush the submarine nest.
"it WIS h," SECRETARY Tumuty con
tuu..i who insisted on mining -
Nafft -, ~ cat OF the German hor.
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