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Show JoacpK Pa.triclc Tumvtlty. wKo will be secretary to ttc president wKen Wilaon tales office. FIRST RMS : INTO TUMULTY'S LAP Presidenl-clccl Announces His Appointment of New Jersey-Ma Jersey-Ma n for Secreting. By International Ts'cws Se'r-lce. TREN'TOX. Is. J., Fob. 3. Joseph Patrick Tumulty, (o whom Governor Vlloii refers ns his alter ego, Is lo be secretary to President Wilson. This Is tlio Ilrst member of the prealdenL-eleufa official family to bo announced. It was not unexpected. Governor Wilson had Indicated lit?) preference for Tumulty on mnny occasions, and recently It was accepted ac-cepted nH a foregone conchtHlon that tho blondo Irishman from .ror3cy City would get the Jot). Tumulty's solcctlon was tho ilrat act of Governor Wilson today, lie called tho correspondents Into his private pri-vate office, risked If all the newspapers wore represented, and then said: "Joseph Patrick Tumulty of Hudson county will be my secretary at Washington. Wash-ington. You may say for mo thnt I ax-preaeed ax-preaeed tho greatest gratification at his : willingness to asuume the duties of that office." Mr. Tumulty, who has been secretary to Governor Wilson for two years, was thc recipient of congratulations throughout through-out the day. The members of tho Now i Jersey legislature, who camo to attend the night session, waited on Tumulty in a body and cxpreflsed their satisfaction. Singularly, Robert Adamson. secretary to Mayor Gaynor of Now York, who has bcon an avowed candidate for thc scc-returyohlp scc-returyohlp to tho president, with tho backing, It is said, of William F. Mc-CombK, Mc-CombK, was In tho governor's outer office when tho announcement of Tumulty's solcctlon so-lcctlon wnn made. Adamson was quick to congratulate thc lucky candidate. Tumulty will continue to perform tho duties of secretary to the governor. Tie hoH been doing ho without compensation ever since November 1, when he resigned tho secretaryship to accept an appointment appoint-ment by Governor Wilson as clerk of tho supremo court at ?C000 a year. Dudley field Malono, son-in-law of Senator O'Gorman. who also had been mentioned for tho secretaryship, will probably get another appointment. The president-elect in very ioud of Mai o no. |