PRESIDENT WILSON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2197, 2 November 1920, Page 2

PRESIDENT WILSON.

lIIS PATHETIC LONELINESS

New York, October 29

Mr J. P. Tumulty (secretary to President Wilson), addressing a political rally at Bethesda, Maryland, revealed many intimate incidents concerning President Wilson. Mr Tumulty said that when Congress was still applauding President Wilson’s great war message in 1017, the President, who was silling in an ante-room, said: “Think what they are applauding. It means death for our young men. How strange it seems that they should applaud that.” And thus-President Wilson became a most uncompromising advocate for the most stringent measures in conducting the war. It was ho who insisted on mining the North Sea;' who broached the matter of combining the Allies under Foch. “If is said that President Wilson would not take counsel ot others,’ said Mr Tumulty. “You will not find another President who consulted so much with others, but he would not do what lie had been told lo do. He holds that a President should he a leader, not a follower. I have heard President Wilson say, T want the people to love me, but they never will.’ This lonely man is not lonely because be disdains love. He craves it with all his soul. He is lonely because of his genius. President Wilson lacks by temperament .the ‘hail-fellow-well-met,’ easy familiarily, I have two pictures in my mind —the first of a straight, vigorous, alert man who addressed Congress in 1917; the second of a mart silting huddled in a chair looking upon a procession of wounded soldiers. As they salute, he hows his head. W ounded greet wounded. They and he alike are casualties of the Great Wav.”