Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-17
Woodrow Wilson
AS ! KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

think it is hope1ess?' great tears
stood in the eyes OF Mrs. Wilson,
and as the governor put down the
telephone she walked over to him
and in the most tender way put her
arms around his neck, saying: my
dear Woodrow, I am sorry, indeed,
that you have failed" Looking at
her, with a smile that carried no
evidence of the disappointment or
chagrin he felt at the news he had
just received, he said: My dear, OF
course I am disappointed, but we
must not complain. We must be
sportsmen. After all, it is Gods
will, and I feel that a great load has
been lifted from my shoulders"
With smile he remarked that this
failure would make it possible for
them, when his term as governor OF
New Jersey was completed, to so
for a vacation to the English lake
country-a region loved by them
both, where they had previously
spent happy summers: turning TO
me, he asked for pencil and pad
and informed me that he would pre-
pare a message OF congratuiatlon TO
Champ Clark, saying, as he left the
room, Champ Clark will be nomi-
mated and I will give you the mes
sage in a few minutes
I afterwards learned that Nc
Combs was about to release the dele
gates when Roger Sullivan, who had
been informed Of McCombs' mes
sage to the New Jersey governor,
rushed over to McCombs and said to
him.. Damn you, don't you do that.
Sit steady in the boat"
This is the true story OF the &C.
currence SO strangely distorted by
Mr.. McCombs in the book ne left
for publication, after his death,
wherein lie would make it appear
that Governor Wilson had got in
panic and tried to withdraw from
the race; whereas the panic was all
in the troubled breast of Mr.. Nc
Combs, a physically frall, morally
tinlid person, constltuuonally unit
for the task Of conducting such a
fight as was being Waged in Baltl-
more. More sturdy friends of Gov
ernor Wilson at the convention were
busy trying to brace up the hating
manager and persuade him to con-
tinue the fight, even against the
desperate odds that faced them. But
for these stronger natures, among
whom were old Roger Sullivan, of
Illinois, and w. G. McAdoo. the bat
tie would have been lost.
Ready to Congratulate Clark
The message Of congratulation
! to Champ Clark was prepared and
| ready to be put on the wire for
| transmission to him when the Bal
| timore convention assembled again
on Saturday. June 20. 1912. I had
argued with the governor that de-
| spite what McCombs had said to
| him over the phone on the prev
| ious day, I felt that there was still
| a great deal of latent strength in
| the Wilson forces in the convention,
which was ready to jump into, &C
/ ton as soon as it appeared that
| Champ Clark's case was hopeless.
| The first ballot on Saturday gave
| weight to my view, for upon that
ballot Wilson gained fifteen or
| twenty votes, which injected new
| hope into our forces in the conven-
ton. From that time on Wilson
steadily moved forward and then
came Bryan's resolutions opposing
any candidates who received the
support of the privilege hunting"
! class, and attempting the ex-
! pulsion OF certain eastern group
| from the convention. Pandemonium
| reigned in the convention hall, but
| the vote upon the resolutions them
| selves showed the temper of the
! delegates. This made the Clark
! nomination hopeless. Bryan's role
as an exponent of outraged public
! opinion and as a master Of great
| conventions was superbly played.
| When he finally threw his tremen-
; dous influence to Wilson the strug-
t gle was over. Indiana jumped to
i Wilson; then Illinois, and the fight
/ was won. Wilson received the neces-
| claimed the candidate.
ITO BE Cor<iruedl