The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-16
WOODROW WILSON

PIT TO u lOfIMGE AIeOEuSy NICAASA etAs
Gregory, and asked Mr.. Gregory to
hand it to Mrs. Wilson.
In the letter he made II plain
that he desired to come to Wash
ington to help: that he had certain
fairly definite plans he would like
to try by which he hoped to get
favorable vote on the treaty and
the covenant. He waited five days,
then ten No answer came. He
wrote another letter, not quite so
glowing with affection, but happy,
cheerful, and hopeful, again offer.
ing to come. Again q. week passed,
two weeks, 81 month, and no
answer came. The letters never
were acknowledged House had
reached the scrap heap.
Tnmulty From Trenton.
And now we come to the last
instance Of Wilson'S peculiar tenn
permanent that could shatter d
warm friendship of long duration
for a misunde rstanding over a
seemingly trivial message.
Joseph r.. Tumulty, d stocky
blond, bIue-eyed Irishman, with
thin, soft, curly hair, In his mid.
man Friday for ten years. His NJ
lection and loyalty were never
questioned, and, considering the
tremendous responsibility he had,
considering his training and the
environment from which he came,
his record OF errors was exceed
ingly small.
There can be no doubt that will
son loved, understood. and greatly
trusted IaiYn Neither can anyone
gainsay the fact that Tllmuity was
of immf1ese service to his chief.
They were two handsome Irish.
men : master and man, who
hunted In pairs through ten years
and In those years
certainly In the first OF those years
no other man had as much
Influence with Woodrow Wilson as
Joe Tumulty!
But there came q time. Wilson
left the White House, when he was
brusQue with Tumnlty and seemed
to take no joy of him. After he
left the White House, Tumulty
sometimes called at So street. for
he was a faithful soul, one OF your
loyal Irish who may bIunder but
never betray.
After visit in So street, III
April 1922, Tumulty went to q pub
lie dinner and delivered some irrev-
Giant and innocuous message which
might possibly have comitted the ex-
Presedent to the presidential cand-
decay OF Cox, who had been defeated
in 1920 so inglOriously. Whereupon
III due course, yet not before Turn
ultys had pleaded and tried to stay
the blow. Wilson gave such q bitter
cruel lashing, by public letter, To
Tumuity that al Wilson's friends
were ashamed beyond words.
Tumulty's Story
One day in March, 1924, writer
OF these lines sat ia Tumulty's Of
flee and asked him about that cpl
sode. And Tnmultyy replying. spoke
for ten minutes or so. His words
may well be set down here just as
they came, in the yernacular OF his
heart. TO the question about the
Cox episode, he answered in part.
We'll. now. You see well, / am
going to tell you the whole story
because. you see Il Ii hard to get
4 unless YOU know certain things
Wen, when / got to the legisIa-
a bill through the House, and
Everett Colby was In the Senate
and he comes to me and sayss
Joe, you got q bill and / got d
bill for the same thing, and maybe
your bill IL q little better than
mine, but the way things are lined
up the politics of II lis to get my
bill through.
And I say: Sure, what do 4
care? You go ahead and call II the
Colby law,
And we did, and SOL got to he
interested in the Progressive move
ment and got aboard the Wilson
baIidwagon And I'm Roman
Catholic, but Wilson liked me and
made me his secretary. ! went
with him to washington and you
don't get the idea about him. He
was the tenderest hearted man ]
ever knew; just like a baby
Well, that's the way 1t went.
After the President got sick no
one saw him. Oh, came in once
in while and saw him when he
was in the White House, but not
muchs When he got out Of bed. Of
course 1t was different. Well. II
came on to the last day, ard the
third of March 49, Well, for
week had been interested in an
old man out in Nebraska who had
to 90 to a jail for a federal Of