THE LONELY PRESIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1920, Page 5

THE LONELY PRESIDENT.

INTIMATE INCIDENTS REVEALED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Oct. 29. Mr. Tumulty, secretary to the President, addressing a political rally at Bethseda (Maryland), repealed 'many intimate incidents concerning President Wilson. Mr. Tumulty said that when the Conf/rrss was still applauding President Wilson's great war me s sage in 1017, the President, who was sitting in the anteroom, said, "Think of what tlicv are applauding. It means the death of our young men. How .strange it seems to applaud that!" And this Wilson became the most uncompromising advocate of the most stringent measures for conducting the war. It was he who insisted on mining the North Sea, ho who broached the question of combining- the Allies under Marshal Koch.

( "It is said," declared Air. Tumulty "that President Wilson will not take tlic counsel of others. Yon won't find another President who consulted so much with others, Iml he would not do what he had been told In do. He holds that the President should hi- the leader, not a follower. 1 heard President Wilson say: 'I want the people to love me. but they never will.' This Sonelv man is not lonely because he 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' eastern familiarity. I have two pictures in my miml-tlic first of a straight, vigorous alert man who addressed the (ingress in ]!)]-, and the second of a man sitting huddled in a chair, looking upon a procession of wounded soldiers. They salute, he bows his head. Wounded greet wounded, they and he alike are casualties of the Great War."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn,