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Show I MR. WILSON'S PRIVATE SECRETARY jjr J. P. Tumulty, President-elect Wilson's Wil-son's private secretary, was born in Jersey City on May 5, 1879. He comes from a family which lived in Jersey City over half a century, the greater part of which time they have been prominent politically. His father, Philip Tumulty, was a member of the assembly in 1887 and 1888. Mr. Tumulty, the younger, received re-ceived his political training in the old Bob Davis school in Jersey City, where he learned the machine side of the political game, the knowledge of which has made him so valuable an asistant to Mr. Wilson, who has made warfare on this kind of politics since his election to the governorship governor-ship of New Jersey. Mr. Tumulty was elected to the lower house of the New Jersey legislature legis-lature in 1907, and served four terms. He was a member of that trio of independent in-dependent Democrats in the legisla-1 cure who would not allow themselves to be controlled, so far as their votes on bills were concerned, by Davis or the members of the machine. Governor Wilson was attracted to Mr. Tumulty by the reports which reached him regarding his ability as an orator and debater. |