The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-02-03
THE PRESIDENT
IN KANSAS TODAY
SPOKE IN LEAvENWoRTH AND
TOPEKA. IN X. c. TONIGHT.
The FINAL ADDRESS IN ST. LOUIS
First Hitch in Trip Occurs at Des
Moines Through 8junder Of Rail-
road In not Having His Special
Train Ready at the Depot

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| On board the Presidents Special
Kansas City, Feb. 2President WIZ
son swung into Kansas this morning
to feel the pulse OF the wheat country
on preparedness
He and Mrs. Wilson made an early
morning visit to Kansas City for a
few minutes to switch from one train
TO another but not vast number
were at the station at lifetime. On
his return trip he will make an adj
dress.
The Executive intimated to the
people of Kansas and Missouri that
he does not relish the necessity of
having to continue writing notes to
preserve International peace.
rs the situation such that all
the President must do is TO write
notes?'' he asked America
should be prepared for war by
preparing her citizens to know
what war means and how con-
ducted.'
The President spoke at Lawrence
at 10 o'clock this morning and at 1
o'clock in Topeka
After his address tonight in Kansas
city he ami Mrs. Wilson. will go to
st. Louis where the Presidents big
final address Of the trip will be made.
/ The first hitch experienced on the
trip so far was through a blunder in
Des Moines when the train was not
ready when the executive arrived at
the depot, He and Mrs Wilson had
Ito wait Is minutes in the dis
ipatchers office pending the arrival OF
the car.
President at Des Moines.
Des Moines, Feb 1.-THE largest
audience to hear President Wilson's
plea for his plan for preparedness,
since he left Washington Friday on
4 his tour Of the central west, gathered
at the Coliseum in PES MUffies last
night and waited several hours to-
hear the nations executive
In the fifty five minutes in which he
talked the president urged the neces-
sity OF this nation being fully prepar-
ed for dangers that come from our
contact with the rest of the world,
declared he was an apostle of peace,
but not of peace at the expense OF
the honor and integrity OF the United
States" urged the manufacture by the
government of enough of the muni-
tions needed by the United States to
regulate the price of the munitions
manufactured by private capital, de-
nounced the men who are actually
preaching war-that ii is the duty OF
this country to do what 1t never did
before, to seek controversy with for
eign powers" and declared that pre-
paredness was an issue before the
United States into which party poll
tics should not enter.
The presidents speech was greet
led with applause at frequent inter-
walls and every reference to his Ell
forts to preserve peace met with
hearty demonstration. The proposal
for government manufacture of NUM-
tions also receive generous express
sion OF approval from the great aud
ilience. His hearers waited in vain for
a reference to the continental army.
The doors of the great building
were closed. locked and barred at
s. 80 last nightL-the hour announced
as the opening hour-and more people
lwere outside the building than inside
when the doors were closed. For an
hour and a half before the president
arrived. the crowds serged at the
doors, not knowing the Coliseum had
been filed earlier battering on them
! and demanding entrance, until COM
pany Of militia was called to clear the
multitude away.
Within the building band enter
tanned the audience with patriotic and
semi patriotic airs of all lands and all
times. dividing its bill between Its
Long Way to Tipperary" and "DiN,
! lie" and the Chamber of Commerce.
glee club equally neutral in the songs
: it chose to keep the audience quiet
sang Iowa" and Chinatown" as the
: opening numbers.
In the midst of one of the numbers
Iof the glee club the band struck vi
t''America." and the president and
: Mrs. Wilson and their escorts en-
tered, greeted by standing audiences
which cheered the nations chic
magistrate and his bride Justify. a.
!, the same time waving thousands o
small flags with which it had beer
furnished
l. The president entered the BUILDING
q accompanied by Governor George w
s Clarke. Secretary j! P. Tumafty Chic
Il Murphy of the secret service AM
I. President Harry H. Polk OF the Great
. err Des Moines committee MRS, WI
son Immediately followed. accompar
n. led by Mrs Harvey Ingham. Mrs La
. fayette Young. Jr.. and President Ash
ton Clemens of the Chamber of Con
Is merce.