TILLER QUITS AS HEIL'S PRESS SCRETARY AFTER TIFF
Revell, Aldric
Tiller Quits As Heil's Press Secretary A Her Tiff Governor's Desire For 'Homespun'' Publicity Ends In Clash BY ALDRIC REVELL Pent-up dissension in the executive office over publicity Gov. Heil...
...Further, Hell has become very touchy recently about the unfavorable publicity he has been receiving in the press, especially in editorials...
...On one occasion he criticized The Capital Times for continually harping on the fact that at most he only spends two days a week at the capitol...
...Hell wanted news releases written in a "homespun" fashion, while Tiller Insisted that since the press rewrote all releases, all that was necessary was t state the facts...
...Ever since Robert K. Henry, Jefferson banker, has popped up in the news as a likely opponent of the governor's...
...At a press conference today, Gov...
...Tiller today declined to comment as to the reason for his resignation...
...Further, most of the unfavorable publicity Heil has received has been due to his extemixiraneous remarks, such as the "wine, women, and song" remark he made about legislators, and his recent statement that legislators could not serve two masters and should not be county supervisors, mayors or aldermen and legislators at the same time...
...Political observers feel that Heil is "jittery" about his re-elcctoin and his nervousness is being expressed by shouting at his secretaries and criticizing the publicity he has been receiving...
...I get lots of resignations which I don't accept...
...I'm very fond of him...
...Heil has been in an angry mood around the office...
...I haven't a thing in the world against Tiller...
...During the past two weeks reporters have heard the governor shouting at the top of his voice at William C. Maas, his executive secretary, and at Tiller...
...If he wants (o leave all right, and if he wants to come back and carry out publicity as the governor views it, why God bless him he ran come back and stay here as long as I'm governor...
...At press conferences the governor has commented more than once about individual stories that were unflattering to him...
...Heil has been receiving lately exploded last week with the resignation of Arthur Tiller, $4,200 a year press secretary to Gov...
...Heil continually made announcements of appointments to major offices at banquets instead of releasing these announcements through Tiller...
...If Tiller does not return to the executive office, Heil said today, he would name another press secretary but said he had not considered any particular person for the position...
...Ever since Tiller entered the executive office, he has had difficulty with the governor...
...I've read it but I've not accepted it...
...Tiller, who has had about 20 years' experience as a newspaperman, had been unable to satisfy Hell's desire in Ills stories...
...Told about Heil's remarks that he was welcome back in the executive office, Tiller said: "I don't know how to make an oil burner or a dump truck but I do know how to write a publicity story...
...He's just as welcome to stay In this office as flowers in May...
...Tiller would not say whether he would reconsider and return to the office...
...He has a fine family, a lovely wife and two lovely children...
...While Tiller was not responsible for these statements, he has had to bear Heil's criticism when the press reacted unfavorably to them...
...Capitol reporters have long been aware of the growing dissension in the executive office about the way publicity was handled...
...Heil declared: "I have a resignation on my desk from Tiller...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
