Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-11
Woodrow Wilson
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

Grayson and myself. He would APP
pear regularly at each meal, par
taking of it only slightly, always
gracious, always good-natured and
smiling, responding to every call
from the outside for speeches-calls
that came from early morning until
late at night-from the plain peo-
pie grouped about every station and
watering place through which we
passed. Even under the most adverse
physical conditions he was always
kind, gentle and considerate to
those about him.
I have often wished, as the criti-
cisms of the Pullman smoking car,
the cloak room and the counting
house were carried to me, picturing
the presidents GOODNESS, his aloof-
ness and eXclusiveness, that the crit
les could for a moment have seen
the heart and great good-nature of
the man giving expression to them
selves on this critical journey. If
they could have peeped through the
| curtain of our dining room, at one
of the evening meals, for instance,
they would have been ashamed of
their Misrepresentation of this kind,
patient, considerate, human-hearted
man.
When he was "half-fit," an ex-
preston he often used, he was the
best fellow In the little group on
our traln-good-natu smiling, full
of anecdotes and repartee and al
ways thinking Of the comforts and
pleasure of the men gathered about
him. The illness of a newspaper
man, or one of the messengers or
conductors, or attaches of the train
was call to service to him, and
one could find the president in one Of
! the little compartments of the train,
| seated at the bed of newspaper
| man or some attache who had been
taken ill on the trip. There is in
| the president sincere human SYM
! pathy, which is better than the
cheap good-fellowship which many
public men carefully cultivate.
Bullitt Revelations
| It was on the western trip, about
| September ~, while the president,
with every ounce of his energy, was
| attempting to put across the League
of Nations, that William G. Bullitt
was disclosing to committee on for
! eign relations, at a public hearing,
| the facts of a conference between
| Secretary Lansing and himself, in
which Mr.. Bullitt declared that Mr.
| Lansing had severely criticized the
League of Nations.
The press representatives aboard
the train called Mr., Bullitt's testi
mony to the presidents attention.
He made no comment, but it was
plain from his attitude that ne was
incensed and distressed beyond meas
ure. Here he was in the heart of the
west, advancing the cause so dear to
his heart, steadily making gains
against what appeared to be jnsur'
mountable odds; and now bis init
mate associate, Mr.. Lansing, was
engaged in sniping and attacking
him from behind.
Message From Lansing
On September Is Mr.. Lansing
telegraphed the following message to
the president:
ION May IT, BulIitt resigned by let
| ter, giving his reasons, with which
you are familiar. I replied by letter
I on the 18th without any comment
on his reasons. Bullitt on the 10Th
asked to see me to say goodbye,
and 1 saw him. He elaborated on the
reasons for his resignation and said
| that he could not conscientiously
give countenance to a treaty which
was based on injustice. I told him
! that I would say nothing against his
resigning. since he pnt it on conscien-
tious grounds, and that l recognized
that certain features of the treaty
were bad, as I presumed most every
one did, but that was probably un-
avoidable in view Of conflicting
claims, and that nothing ought to
be done to prevent the speedy resto'
ration of peace by signing the treaty.
Bullitt then discussed the numerous
European commissions provided for
by the treaty on which the United
States was to be represented. I told
him that I was disturbed by his
fact, because I was afraid the sen.
ate and possibly the people, if they
understood this, would refuse ratifi.
cation, and that anything which was
an obstacle to ratification was un-
fortunate because we ought to have
| peace as soon as possible"
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