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Show IORAH AND JOHNSON OPEN CAMPAIGN AGAINST PACT; Appeals by Senators Answered by Tremendous Tremen-dous Applause in Great Meeting in Auditorium. Johnson Hailed as Next President; Medill Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick Presides at Monster Gathering, j I CHICAGO, Sept. 10. Crowds tonight in vain besieged the auditorium thc-i thc-i a r er, where lu publici n senators began I t ! -ir west ern speak i ng tour in answer jtu 1'rrsidcnt Wilson's demands for un-j un-j condi t ional n crept :inao or total rejee-jtion rejee-jtion of the peace treaty and lengne of ; nations covenant. J'.rfnre 8 o Ylock, j the hour for .opening tic tpeaking, tlm j the.' t-T filled a nd 1 housands of j persons were li ft in the stn-ets. ) The thousands within nnd without had conn- to hear Senators William K. ' Ho rah of Idaho, Hi rani W. .Johnson of California and Modi 11 Me"ormiek of I Illinois, the latter presiding at the meeting, expound their views of the j peace treaty and league covenant and j reply to President Wilson's utterances on his swing around the country. .Senator .Sen-ator .Johnson had spoW-n earlier in the ! day at a luncheon at the Hamilton club, J but Senator Hnrah did not', arrive until Mate in the day and both delivered night addresses, formally starting their cam-j cam-j paign of the west. CHEER JOHNSON JAS NEXT PRESIDENT. Tin.1 crowd outside wms led into rc-ipeated rc-ipeated cheering by a man who shouted that Senator Johnson would be the next I president. The cheering, however, Iseenn.'d about equally vigorous at mention men-tion of Senators Borah and McConniek. While the throngs stormed pbout tho various entrances after the doors had been closed by the police, a parade was led by a soldier in uniform blowing a bugle along Michigan boulevard. Several Sev-eral hundred persons wero in line with j banners bearing such inscriptions as "Welcome to the men who are bringing bring-ing our boys back from Siberia" and "We want our boys back from Siberia.'' Si-beria.'' Inside the vast theater the crowd applauded and perspired in shirt sleeves. Senator Johnson spoke first; then Senator Sen-ator liorah. Both men were wildly cheered and there were occasional comments com-ments from the crowds. "jN'o two men who wrote that treaty can agree now as to what it means," said Senator Borah, amid laughter. DON'T BELIEVE MUCH IN PROPHETS. "We in the senate want to construe that treaty if that is possible. The president Hays that the treaty assures peace. Well, in 191(5 ho said we must elect him, for he would keep us out i of war. A few months later we wene in the war. I don't believe much in prophets. "I don't want to go into a league at all, personally, but I did not make the issue. Now I am particularly anxious anx-ious to find a way out of it if we must go in. That is what the senate wants to do now a reservation which will provide a method of withdrawal. "Do any of you want to go into a leaguo that you can't get out off" All over the hall there were cries of "No, no." "Is there an American who wants a foreign nation to say when and where the Monroe doctrine shall apply?" ap-ply?" went on the. speaker, and there were cries of "No." Prolonged elvers greeted his strictures stric-tures on tlo presence of American (Continued on Page 16, Column 2.) ! GREETED BY hl E " JMG IT CHICAGO (Continued rrom Page One.) troops in -Siberia, ami there was cheer-i" cheer-i" when he asserted that one of the S'-nate'ji li l'f .Tences with the president W:i tlw; former s insistence on an amendment to the- lt-aue of nations plan which would make it impossible to sr.-inl American hoyd to fiyht anywhere any-where except by order of I heir own U, ve rnrm-nt. The intrrriiption.s rcw more fre-I fre-I 'HMMit and f-xi-iifd as the senator jro-c jro-c 'ili-'l. V li'Mi he? spok of t ho power in the hand-; of the president there were cries of " Tal t; it :iv:.y from him, ' ' cat calls, boos and cheers. ' ' I-lel'ure we talk or' that let's Hee to it. that he is not j-jiwii more power,' shouted the Idaho senator as soon as he eouhl make liimseif hoard. Tin1 audience ro.-e and elieered wildly. ''They want us to sie-n on the dotted line; they say our ;in oiilmiits take time," went on the senator, and a spectator spec-tator called out, "It took Wilson six months. ! ' TAKES CUE FROM AN INTERRUPTION. I ''Yes,'1 said the speaker, taking the 1 cue, "and it took George Washington seven years to ynin. the independence of (ieore JIT that they now want to ive back to lieoryc V Jn his introductory remarks, Senator MeConniek said: "We are here tonight under circumstances circum-stances which re demanding attention at-tention all over the United Stales. The president; of the United "States and I am speaking "with all respect has negotiated ne-gotiated a treaty in defiance of his own express opinion; in defiance of the established es-tablished practice under the constitution, constitu-tion, and despite the express will of the majority of t ho American people expressed ex-pressed at the polls. "Improperly, as some of us are told, there has been interwoven in the treaty a covenant which, in our judgment, guarantees that, the United States must take the same part in the wars that the treaty promises take in the conscience and judgment of the people of the United States. Declares Argument Wanting. "He lias not adduced an aryuiu.-nt in support of his position. He has sought to explain away honest doubts which i'ill the breasts of millions of his "countrymen. "coun-trymen. Ho lias imputed to others motives mo-tives which ho himself would never acknowledge ac-knowledge as his own. By abuse and attempted coercion ho has sought to intimidate in-timidate senators, to drive them from their judgment in order that, obedient to his will, they might depart from t ho obligations and the oath which they took on assuming the office of senators of the United States. "The testing time has come. "We are to learn if senators of the "United I States, by coercion and intimidation, j may be driven from the performance of theif sworn duty. Tliicre was a time ' when it seemed as though rcprusenta-i rcprusenta-i tivc institutions in this country were to come to an end, as if in the hour when wc had got rid of the autocracy abroad we were to low democracy at home. Thank God there were men who dared speak their minds, who dared voice the words of the silent millions who were unable to sjcak. i 1 Such a man is William "E. Borah. There has come to our stae of Illinois an old fighter in the interest of the people. A friend and colleague of one ; whom we long loved Theodore Koose-velt. Koose-velt. In this hour, when tjtc nationalism national-ism of America is threatened, when all that Theodore Roosevelt held dear is in danger, it is fitting that there should speak in this hall for him, sinco he is no longer with us, Hiram Johnson John-son of California." |