AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1920, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(Reuter’s Telegram.) WILSON INCIDENTS. (Received Tl is Day at 8.30 a.m.) •'* NEW YORK, Oct; 29. Mr Tumulty, Secretary to the President; addressing, a political. rally at Bethseda, Maryland ,revealed many intimate incidents concerning Mr Wilson. Mr tf.umnjty said when Congress was still applauding Mr Wilson’s great war pleasure iu 1917, the President, who wps sitting in ap- antc-rqoni said: “Think of what they are applauding. It meqps the death, of our young men. Mow strange it. seems to applaud that.” After* this Mr lyilson (lecarnq a most uneojnpromising, advocate of the most stringent mpasnres for conducting the war. It was he who insitecl on mining the North Sea, ]}e was bjqached the question of combining the Allies under Focii. ’“lt is said,” declared Mr Turpulty, “that Af r will not counsel off others. You won’t fipd another President who consulted so much with others, but he would not do >v]iat he lias been told to. He holds that the President should be a leader, not a follower. T have heard <Mr Wilson say, “I want people to love me, but they never will.” This lonely man is not lonely, because lie disdains love. He craves it with all his soul. He is lonely because of his genius. Mr Wilson lacks by temperament the hail fellow well niet eastern familiarity. I have two pictures in my mind, first of the straight vigorous alert man who addressed Congress in 1917 and second of a man sitting huddled in a chair, looking upon a procession of wounded soldiers. They salute and he bows his head , wounded greeted wounded. They alike are casualties, of the great war.”