New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
kepudiation of Tumulty
and Cox Regarded as
an indication That He
Must Be Reckoned With
Iamnany May Now
Discard Ohioan
Ex Candidates. Friends
Had Asserted Old Guard
Was Getting on Wagon
By Charles T. White

"oooio" w Tllson reputation of the
message purporting to come from him
read at the jefferson Day dinner in
New York on Saturday night last, at
winch former Governor Cox of Ohio
was the principal speaker. was accent
ca IN local Democratic circles yester-
day as marking break not only with
Governor Cox but with Joseph P. Tum-
uitS, secretary to President Wilson
from the beginning of his political
career rs Governor to the inauguration
OF President Harding.
1t was Mr.. Tumulty who furnished
to the dinner committee typewriter
copies of what purported to be Mr..
Wilson'S words. with the explanation
that they were from the former Prcsi-
dent. This was the message which the
former President repudiates:
Say to the Democrats of New York
that | am ready to support anv man
who stands for the salvation of Amer
lea, and the salvation of America is
justice to all classes"
Message Pleased Cox Men
] MS sentiment was cheered to the
echo, and the friends of Governor Cox
pointed to it the next day as meaning
i, : Mr.. Wilson, Mr. Tumulty and the
Wiiasa Old Guard were practically on
the Cox band wagon and ready for the
1924 ride
Mr.. Wilson's reputation of the mes
sage, handled in the same manner as
almost countless messages from Mr..
Wilson have been handled by Mr..
Tumulty during the last decade, is be-
wlldering to the Cox men and to Mr..
Tumulty and his friends.
In Tammany parlance. it is throw
down" Of the most unmistakable char
acter and positiveness. The few promi-
ncnt New York Democrats who were
in position yesterday to analyze intel
hgently the situation said that it meant
Mr.. Wilson was through both with
Tumulty and with the Cox men, and
that if he took any part in the next
national campaign it would be either
with himself as candidate or in be-
half of some one of his own choosing,
After the stroke of paralysis in 1919
at Pueblo crippled the then President,
leaving his left side helpless, it was
generally assumed by the Democratic
politicians that Mr. Wilson when he
finished his term would drop out of
politics. His sharp repudiaton of
Tumulty and Cox is interpreted as
meaning that he does not consider him
self out.
Cox Keeps Close to Tammany
His retirement from the campaign in
1920 left free field, and Governor Cox
of Ohio won out in the free-for-all
with the aid of Tammany and the Hi
nois delegates. Incidentally, Tammany
threw its power against William G.
McAdoo, the Presidents son-in-law.
Since 1920 Cox has been keeping as
close as possible to Tammany. The
Jefferson dinner a week ago was delib-
erately planned for his benefit. Mr..
Tumulty performed the important func-
cordial good will and Endorsement from
Woodrow Wilson. The setting was ia
vorable to Cox and the Tumulty trim
ming also was pro-Cox. Now that Mr..
Wilson has spoiled the picture by re-
pudiating both Cox and Tumulty, it
isn't picture any more-it's nothing
but Woodrow Wilson. This is the view
taken of the incident by local Demo
Gratis.
The former Presidents break with
Mr.. Tumuty is doubtless chargeablc to
Mr. Tumulty's memoirs of the Wilson
regime. Although the Tumulty book
seemed to be an attempt to put Mr..
Wilson and his accomplishments in the
strongest and best light, the book ex-
cited ridicule where it was intended to
provoke admiration. In England, as
we'll as in America, the critics came
close to agreeing that Tumulty had
made himself out as the real power of
the Administration, leaving the Presi-
dent in the capacity, to a great extent,
as an agent of superior mind. One
splenetic writer wrote: 81 am greatly
Interested in Mr.. Tumulty's history of
himself, but who is this man Wilson
that he mentions?"
The theory that "the book did it, is
gthcned by the ,acu rnau clear up
to the end of the Wilson Administra-
tion Nj. Tumulty seemed to sustain
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