Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-11
10000 FLAMING TORCHES LIGHT
ENTITY OF WILSON INTO ST. LOUIS:
TRIM TEDDY AND SAVE MISSOURIl'
0Id-Time TranSparenCieSI Fife
and Drum Corps, Shouting
HowIing Voters Make Big
geSt Din Since 1884

L
this city last night provoked the big
gest and most emotional demonstration
that Il has witnessed since 1884.
While 1000 crammed every foot Of the
coliseum, the convention hall to hear the
governor. 1900 more delirious organiza-
ton men paraded the neighboring streets
creating a hub-bub that made New Years
eve on Broadway seem feeble in COM
parison. The din was almost fendish
After all, IL takes the bombastic Mis-
souri, sort Of political rallies to add the
picturesque touch TO a campaign and the
crowd that looks up to Dave" Francis
and National Committeeman Goltra as
l leaders laid the picturesque touch on
thick.
There were human beings from the four
corners Of creation in the parade-yes'
they had a native born Monaghan In the
line Every man carried a torch ana
those 1900 torches looked like so many
fire flies as you looked up and down the
flar1nx line as far as the eye could
reach. And then, they had something
that was seen for the first time In TINS
Icampaign-the good old transparencies,
with such endearing expressions as Trim
him, Woody. and redeem Missouri. Col
ira took the governor through the SIX
miles that they said the parade covered
and IL forced expressions Of surprise
from him.
MISSOURI SHOWS EN-.
This is incredible" he declared at one
point, where there was negro fife ana
drum corps leading a battalion OF stur-
DIV voters from the shores of sunny ltaly.
The concourse kept up an incessant
cheer and got lots Of encouragement
| from the twenty bands that were In nne'
The head OF t he line reached the coil
scum At $50 and began to rush the
L. Fy,,ra0zfbla for them
n Gain adInittance, for the vast audi
torium had been packed two hours De
fore. Inside the hall there was another
freuzied outbreak when the governor APP
peared on the arm OF Champ Clark
| Cries of wilson split the air and
Princeton locomotive crashed against the
ceiling time and again, and the governor
frayed in voice and tired through ana
through, stood there smiling and happy
a PICTURE OF HARMONY.
Champ clark completed the picture OF
harmony. -.
like ali other meetings in such vast
halls n was simply impossible for the
governor 10 make himself heard beyond
/ the first ten rows. The governor has Deen
burdened with so many speeches on TINS
trim that his vocal chords are seriously
effected. Every night meeting this week
as a result, the governors effectiveness
as a platform speaker has been sadly
impaired. ~. 1851
-sts speech was on the same topics
that he has dwelt on In the last few
days. The crowds surged out ana walt
ed az the doors to get a glimpse OF him.
There were about 10000 in the swaying
mass that got about the governors car
and the police, remembering what the
I governor had gone through at Kansas
city the night before, ordered a flank
movement and got the governor out by
another door.
They did not give Governor Wilson
single minutes rest from the time he
arrived in St Louis at 4:30 until he left
at midnight. Just before the coliseum
rally he was the guest of the editors
OF the state Democratic newspapers at
the Hotel Jefferson and there. in mod
crate sized auditorium struck his usual
gait as a speaker and aroused lot OF
enthusiasm.
The crowds outside were SO anxious to
see the governor that they crowded the
window siiIs. and finally forced the gov
ernor TO go to an opening window and
show himself
AT THE BANQUET.
At that banquet besides Messrs. Gal
ira and Francis, there were former Gov
errors Folk and Dockery and the guber-
material nominees in Missouri and Illi-
nois, Elliott Major and Edward f.
Dunno, respectively.
In his talk to the editors, the gov
ernor spoke in part as follows:
The whole of the problem that we
now face, gentlemen, is a problem with
which you are yourselves intimately con-
nected; because / feel that the newspa-
pers of this country and perhaps I may
say particularly the country newspapers
Of this country, are responsible for the
exact slant WHICH opinion is to take with
regard to public matters Because the
daily or the weekly impression after "a
while becomes indsiible and it is only
/ by the reiteration Of the things that
we all Of US see that we shall be able
to govern opinion and to mould it perma-
nelly as we desire for the welfare Of
the country.
There have been numerous revela-
lions within the last few days as a re-
suit Of the investigation Of the Clapp
committee in Washington. You have
not been taken by surprise by those rev.
Citations; you cannot say that there is
anything in them that you did not
know before, excepting their detail; you
know just as well as If IT had been
part Of your familiar thought all along
/ that these corporations these great IN
terests were contributing to the success
Of the Republican party.
Il dare say that corporations have
upon occasion contributed to Demo-
lcratic funds. but never in anything like
the same proportion, never with any
thing like the same expectation with
which they have contributed 10 Repub-
llican funds. You have known always
II you have known anything. that the
big business interests Of this country
supported the Republican party with
the expectation. and exaction that the
Republican party should take care Of
them. That is the system, with a big
IC. upon which the Republican party
has been maintained.
Il am not saying this by way Of in
dictment 1 am not saying ii by way
of blame II is merely an accepted and
Acknowledged fact. And now we are
face to face with this problem how to
convince public opinion that a party
based and supported upon that system
can rescue the country from the very
things which that system has set up
ITO turn back. as in some quarters it
seems likely that independent opinion
lin the Republican party will turn back.
Ito AIr. Taft and the regular organization
lis to turn back to the ineY.tSS;s CVn-
sequences of the system. Mark what