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Show y WILSON GIVEN GREATOVAIION Tremendous Crowds Greet President and Thousands Cheer Him in New York. New York, Nov. 2. With two great rallies hero tonight President Wilson ; closed his campaign for re-election except for a speech he will deliver to ; New Jersey friends and neighbors at $ Shadow Lawn Saturday afternoon. From the time ho arrived in the city this morning he was greeted by checr- ing crowds wherever he appeared. In four speeches here, three tonight and one at a businessmen's reception : and luncheon in the afternoon, he reiterated re-iterated his conception of the great Issues which confront tho United SI States. He appealed for principles of '! progress which would help the "obscure" "ob-scure" men and women of the land, arraigned the "Wall Street" interests which, he said, seek to dominate, and f.i pleaded for equal rights for all men. j The president's coming gave the J Democrats their first opportunity of II the campaign in this city for old-jj old-jj fashioned political enthusiasm on a ') big scale. Torchlights and red fire blazed in Fifth avenue as the hosts j of Tammany hall, headed by Charles j F. Murphy, advanced upon Madison Square Garden, which was besieged 3 by a tremendous crowd before their arrival. 7 m l T, 1 c unr.- AT- IlViU liuuia ctiiu ti iiuil uuiuic im. Wilson was due to arrive at the historic his-toric garden, police reserves were i striving vainly to hold back a surging surg-ing throng striving for places of vantage van-tage which would make entrance easy after the doors were thrown open. Holders of reserve seat tickets strove i' vainly to reach the entrances. Women Faint in Crush, f The seating capacity of the garden 'h had been increased, but it seemed that ' after the doors were closed and the last inch of room occupied, that tho size of the throng outside had not been perceptibly diminished. In the ! crush about the doors many women ! fainted. ! Similar scenes were enacted at ! Cooper union. At this meeting special spe-cial provision had been made for young men not of voting age who had marched in the parade with delegations delega-tions from Tammany and other Democratic Dem-ocratic organizations, Augustus Thomas presided at the J Madison Square Garden meeting. The 1 first spenker was Samuel Seabury, candidate for governor of New York. ! He was followed by William F. Mc-Coombs, Mc-Coombs, candidate for United States senator, and former Governor Martin Mar-tin H. Glynn. All of them commend-i commend-i ed the policies of Mr. Wilson, which had "brought peace and prosperity." The members of the Mexican-American joint commission, accompanied by their wives, occupied seats on the platform. When Mr. Wilson was recognized rec-ognized as he appeared on the plat-for plat-for the crowd-rose and cheered steadily stead-ily for 30 minutes. Small American flags fluttered from thousands of waving hands. In the intervals when the din slackened, patriotic airs were sung. "It would be impossible to say anything any-thing worthy of the welcome you havo given me," began tho president. "I realize that we stand at one of the most seriouB turning points in the history of tho United States and of the world. "This campaign has disclosed some line of division in the United States. Here and there It has shown men aligned against eachother. This will be omnious for the future unless it is checked." A band outside playing "Tho Red, White and Blue" interrupted the "president. "pres-ident. "I can't compete with the 'Red, White and Blue,' he said, pausing. Someone in the crowd shouted: "We trust you, Mr. President," and the cheering started again. Fight Against Privilege. The president said tho campaign in 1912 represented a fight against privilege and the same was true now. "I want you to realize, ' he continued, con-tinued, "that another sort of division has appeared in this country. It is between those who employ labor and those who perform labor. Nothing could be more dangerous. We must see that justice is done to working people. This is not a matter of mere sentiment, but a matter of human right. "There is also another division. Some men have grown so unscrupulous unscrupu-lous that they have sought to discredit discred-it thpfr nitrrj rm'omnionf in nrrloi" fn gain a partisan advantage. Some men have sought to determine the affairs of this nation in accordance with interests in-terests outside this nation. What are we going to do witli.them?" "Elect you," a man cried. "I will tell you what we have done," he went on. "We havo built up a party of the people." The president predicted victory saying say-ing he was not worried over the outcome. out-come. Eight-Hour Day. "I do not want to be elected Unless Un-less I am one of you and you believe In me," he added, amid applause. He spoke of the eight-hour day, saying it shows there are some men in this country who look at life from the worklngmen's point of view. "1 have done a mere act of justice," he said. "I want to say," declared the president, presi-dent, "that I believe the forces of this nation are gathered for a demonstration demonstra-tion of power on the part of public opinion on the seventh of November, such has never been displayed in the world before. This great tide of opinion opin-ion is rising, not for the purpose of destroying anything, but for floating all those happy auguries in which men may travel who know they nre bound for the finest goals of human ambl- tlons. This tide of humanity swelling in America is sweet with tho purpose of peace; it is wholesome with the judgments of justice and when it has come to the flod men will see that it is a great body meant to drive all the industries of the world by the pulse r heart beat of -men who love the world and believe in their fellow men. "When America has found herselC then she will be able to play the part which It was destined she should play. Lot all men who believe tho same thing keep together; let no kind of Intimidation; let no kind of vague and fruitless promise divert us for a moment. mo-ment. "Let us first see that we are a united and irresistible nation, and then let us put all that force into the service of humanity in order that men may say that they know what human rights are and that they live and understand un-derstand nothing but what is humanely humane-ly right. That is tho simple message that I have come to deliver to you. Government for People. "We have set up a government for the people. We have marshaled the men who think together, the men who feel together, the men who purpose together in such hosts that I predict they will prove invincible. I am not fearful lest any of these lines of cleavage cleav-age should run so deep as to touch the heart of this people; I know what this rising tide means. It does not mean confidence in any particular man; it means confidence in the destinies of America and the confidence of the American people that they again govern gov-ern their own affairs. "So that when wo look upon our politics at the present time we should concentrate all our purpose upon keeping the men together who believe that everybody is entitled to an equal chance, who believe that liberty is a reality and not a name, who believe that justice must be achieved and must only be achieved by holding together, to-gether, shoulder to shoulder, one body of conquering men." |