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Show UN TALKSTO ISTfl PEOPLE GUEST OF OMAHA AND SIOUX CITY ON SPEAKING TOUR OF THE WEST. Spends Sabbath Day in Iowa Capital, Where He and Mrs. Wilson Attend Services at Church and Enjoy Automobile Ride. Hmalia. President Wilson was Ihe L'ilesi of Omaha and Sionx falls, S. I ., :iu Monday, on his lour of the wesl. In Omaha the president spoke lo a crowd of 80(10 persons following a drive through the principal streets, where he was enthusiastically greeted by thousands of cheering Xeliraskans. Omaha' is the home of Senator Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, the administration's leader in the fight for the ratification of the treaty. The streets of Sioux City, Ihe busy little South Dakota city, were crowded with people most anxious to do him honor with till the power of their lungs. The presidential party spent Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. The president and Mrs. Wilson rested most of the day In their suite at a Des Moines hotel, where they had spent their first night off their special train sine leaving leav-ing Washington, Wednesday, September Septem-ber 3. In tho morning they attended services at the Central Presbyterian church, and in the afternoon went for an automobile ride, which took them out through the country about the towa capital. Dr. tirayson, the president's physician, physi-cian, said Mr. Wilson had been much refreshed by his Sunday stop in Des Moines and was in good trim for the strenuous week before him. He said he would urge, howeve that the president pres-ident make few rear-plalforni speeches along the way, saving his voice for the eleven scheduled addresses. The president made his third speech in Missouri at Kansas City on September Sep-tember C, in Ihe Convention hall, which accommodates lo.OOO. When the president, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the platform plat-form of the vast auditorium, the crowd, each of whom had it small American flag, arose and cheered for more than two minutes. An escort of airplanes dropped flowers on the president's special train as it approached Des Moines, and he was cheered (luring an automobile ride through crowds (hat packed the downtown down-town streets far out beyond the curb. President Wilson's first speech of the western tour was delivered at Columbus, Co-lumbus, Ohio. Thursday, September 4. The meeting was presided over by Dr. W. O. Thompson, and the president presi-dent was introduced by former Governor Gover-nor James E. Campbell as "the first citizen of the big, round world." Escorted by a battalion of state troops and city officials, President Wilson was driven through the city to Memorial hall immediately upon his arrival. To greet, him on his arrival were crowds somewhat reduced on account of the street car strike, but the president presi-dent was cheered heartily as he proceeded, pro-ceeded, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and his party. On arriving at the hall at 11:80 o'clock, the president received an ovation. ova-tion. The audience sung "Dixie" and then burst forth a cheer that rang through the hall. President Wilson made two addresses address-es at St. Louis on Friday, September Septem-ber 5. The president's first address was at the chamber of commerce luncheon lifter he had been cheered along the route of a seven-mile automobile fide through the strels. At night he spoke in the Coliseum, where in 1!)K; he was renominated for the presidency. Following Ihe midday address the president ami Mrs. Wilson went for an automobile ride and stopped at Washington university to visit sex oral members of the faculty who were school chums of the executive. The Coliseum was packed, and when Ihe president arrived the crowd arose and cheered for more than four minutes. min-utes. Thousands of small American flags had been distributed and the audience waved them wildly while they cheered. The president was introduced by Governor Frederick D. Gardner, who said the people of Missouri never had been more sincere in extending a welcome wel-come to any visitor. At that Ihe crowd cheered again. When the governor introduced Mr. Wilson as "the father of world democracy," de-mocracy," there was more cheering. A photographer in a lookout gallery called through a megaphone for a moment's mo-ment's attention, lo take a flashlight, but the president did not "ait, saying "this is much too serious an occasion to care how we look, we ought lo care how we think." |
