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papers tell it more fully than I can say it here, and they have even added some-
thing from their own imagination.
July 30, 1914.
McAdoo telephoned today from Washington, and we had a satisfactory talk,
passing items of interest between us.
Dudley Malone came today to tell of the political situation in New York and
Washington. We had a profitable talk, although he did not of it. He related a
conversation he, Mayor Mitchel and Frank Polk recently had with Tumulty. Tumulty
was violent in his denunciation of McAdoo, even going to the extent of cursing him
roundly, and saying it was rumored that Stuart Gibboney was making in fees through
McAdoo's influence as much as $100,000. a year, and McAdoo was sharing in it. He,
himself, believed it was true. He told of McAdoo's increasing influence with the
President, and remarked that he, Tumulty, had none; that when he criticized anyone
the President immediately said something about "the green-eyed monster", indicating
that he thought Tumulty's views were always clouded by jealousy. He thought the
President was influenced by the man who was with him most and with him last. It
was a most extraordinary exposition of bad sense, bad manners and bad faith. When it
is remembered that Tumulty is not on particularly good terms with either Mitchel or
Malone, and that he had met Polk for the first time, the enormity of his indiscre-
tion can more readily be appreciated.
Malone was opposed to a Southern man being placed in the Cabinet, in the event
of McReynolds' appointment to the Supreme Bench. He thought that while a South-
erner would be inadvisable, it would be even worse if he were taken from Texas. In
his opinion it would be the best sort of politics to appoint a Catholic from the
West. The President and I, when the Cabinet was first being formed, went through
the ranks of the Catholic faith and could not find a single man who was of Cabinet
size excepting Senator O'Gorman and he not only did not want it, but was impossible
for other reasons. I believed it was more important to have a competent Attorney
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| Transcript | papers tell it more fully than I can say it here, and they have even added some- thing from their own imagination. July 30, 1914. McAdoo telephoned today from Washington, and we had a satisfactory talk, passing items of interest between us. Dudley Malone came today to tell of the political situation in New York and Washington. We had a profitable talk, although he did not of it. He related a conversation he, Mayor Mitchel and Frank Polk recently had with Tumulty. Tumulty was violent in his denunciation of McAdoo, even going to the extent of cursing him roundly, and saying it was rumored that Stuart Gibboney was making in fees through McAdoo's influence as much as $100,000. a year, and McAdoo was sharing in it. He, himself, believed it was true. He told of McAdoo's increasing influence with the President, and remarked that he, Tumulty, had none; that when he criticized anyone the President immediately said something about "the green-eyed monster", indicating that he thought Tumulty's views were always clouded by jealousy. He thought the President was influenced by the man who was with him most and with him last. It was a most extraordinary exposition of bad sense, bad manners and bad faith. When it is remembered that Tumulty is not on particularly good terms with either Mitchel or Malone, and that he had met Polk for the first time, the enormity of his indiscre- tion can more readily be appreciated. Malone was opposed to a Southern man being placed in the Cabinet, in the event of McReynolds' appointment to the Supreme Bench. He thought that while a South- erner would be inadvisable, it would be even worse if he were taken from Texas. In his opinion it would be the best sort of politics to appoint a Catholic from the West. The President and I, when the Cabinet was first being formed, went through the ranks of the Catholic faith and could not find a single man who was of Cabinet size excepting Senator O'Gorman and he not only did not want it, but was impossible for other reasons. I believed it was more important to have a competent Attorney |
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