, 1907-08-08
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,ATIoN FOLLOWS OVATION AT
HOMECOMING OF LEADER.
AFTER II MONTHS
Nv Cup Of Happiness Would Be Full
If Meyer and Pettibone Were
Here With Me Today"

n Meyer and Pettibone Were
Here With Me Today"
Denver.-William d. Haywood ar
we'd in Denver Sunday night, n
ear, five months and eighteen days
ince he left here to go to Boise to
ace a charge of conspiracy to murder
Governor Steunenberg.
No one saw him start for Boise.
thousands cheered him on his re-
urn.
All day, on the journey through Colo
ado, Haywood was greeted at the sta
ions by crowds who shouted them
elves hoarse and tried to drag him
rom the train to a a speech.
Haywood's first care on arriving at
lis home city was his wife. He carried
er tenderly from the train, put her
INTO her invalid's chair. and wheeled
ber through the shouting crowd to a
Waiting carriage. Mrs. Haywood was
bale but smiling, and seemed SUI
bremely happy at the reception given
her husband.
The crowd surged through the gates
[ the union station and pressed up
Hose to the train. When Haywood ap-
beared with Mrs. Haywood in his arms
he crowd let loose, n men, women
and children yelled their greetings.
The crowd outside could not see Hay
wood but they knew he had arrived,
Ind the cheering swelled out and up
Seventeenth street.
From the station to the Albany the
streets we're lined with crowds, and
long before and long after the carriage
bearing Haywood passed, cheers were
given him.
pII1llN pt11fo vync tho rt1rrn1 ca1,,tn-
fion, and every time he heard 1t Hay
wood turned and smiled.
When the Albany was reached Hay
wood first carried his wife into the no.
tel and put her In the elevator, to b.
taken to their rooms. Then he returned
10 the street and made a speech to the
thousands who damned about his car
riage.
II 1t was a homogeneous gathering of
people who received Haywood at the
union station.
There were fully 1000 people in the
crowd, which cheered, clapped hands,
shouted with all the force of their
lungs and laughed aloud from sheer
joy. Well-dressed men and women
joined in the pressing throng to grasp
Haywood by the hand. and in doing so
rubbed shoulders with plainly, even
HdDDily-uTtoScu men duu WOu1eH.
Even little children blended their
Haywood first appeared between the
ranks of the committeeman, who
cleared the way for the wheel chair
in which Mrs. Haywood was taken
from the train to the carriage.
Questions of all sorts and kinds were
asked right and left by men and
women, irrespective of whom they
might De addressing.
rs he a big MANI" What kind of
clothes does he wear?" els his wife
coming with him?" DO you suppose
he'll make a speech here near the sta
tion?" These were a few of the queries
with which policemen and members of
the reception committee were deluged.
Ten minutes before Haywood's ar
rived at the Albany hotel a big crowd
gathered there to greet him. A corps
of uniformed police in charge of Ser
geant Russell worked valiantly to keep
the multitude back and maintain a
passage from the street to the entrance
of the building. but the eager, crush
ing throng would not be stilled.
When Haywood's carriage was seer
turning into Seventeenth street from
Glenarm street a lookout on the edge
of the crowd shouted Here he comes!'
and the shout was taken up by thou
sands.
The carriage passed through the
crowd as a boat through water, toss
ing the people aside in wave until it
stopped in front of the hotel. At this
moment two women tainted and were
carried into the hotel.
Raising his hands. Haywood begged
the people to be calm. He jumped.
Lao. rAl -. r. s-l
waited for Mrs. Haywood.
Lifts Wife From Carriage.
The crowd was stayed by a Gordon
OF union men bearing amer on which
were inscriptions such as Liberty,
Justice, Equity" Rescued by Undesir-
able Citizens" His Motto: Loyalty to
Labor"
Precipitation was streaming dawn
Haywood's face as he hurried on with
his burden. Once he stopped in the
lobby to ask Mrs. Haywood If she was
resting easily. She replied, Yes, Bill"
and he went on.
p. H.. Morrissey, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. was
In the lobby, but made no attempt to
reach Haywood when he saw him so
busy.
Don't Leave Me, Bill"
AS Haywood stopped to lift mis- wife
from the couch and carry her to the
ROOM. h cast a loving glance at him
and said:
Don't. Bill. you are toe tired. We
will rest a WHILE"
Tired! Why. this is easy" laughed
her husband. as he started with his
burden.
Don't leave me, Bill" she cried,
when he placed her on the bed.
Indeed. I'll not, until you are taken
care Of" was his reply.
In the meantim the crowd in the