The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-07
Republicans, Alarmed by
 Evidence of Executives
 Popularity, Plan a Hard ! Campaign for Hughes in an Effort to Check the
 Tide Democrats Count on Nebraska, But the Contest 1 Will Be Close.

President Wilson with the people or Iowa and Nebraska has convinced him and the political leaders of both po- litical parties that the peace issue is going to prove more potential in set ting the Presidential campaign than any other. V Returning from Omaha after one of the most interesting and spectacular days of his official career, the Presi- dent was provided with ample evil dencs on the Journey to Chicago to confirm the fact. He made no po- litical speeches; in fact, his utterances were confined to an informal change of greetings with the people that gath cred in large numbers at several of the wayside stations.
 Many References to Peace
 i These greetings, while necessarily brief on account of the limited pause of the arain, were cordial, and at times enthusiastically demonstrative. He was assured by the persons who clamored for a grip of his hand and a friendly word from him-both of which wefe readily gfven-of the high pie. s N
 At almost every stop some persons made references to his service in keep ing the Nation out of war. coupled with the hope that he would be con tinued in office to prevent the en- tahglementI of the Nation with any alien government.
 The President has very amusing experience at Malta, III. He found two score of women eager to shake hands with him and catch glimpse Of Mrs. Wilson. who remained an in- terested observer, within the car lounge. One of the women, frank of manner and buxom in appearance, re- garded the Pre3ident closely for few minutes aud sald with ingenuousness: ''I like you. MT. Wilson. but am go- ing to vote for MT. Hughes" The President smiled broadly. taken back a trifle by her candor. A dozen other women surrounding the bold spokes- man began to argue with her
 { 'sWilson the Best Man. A "Aren't you ashamed of yourself ?" raid one, You know Wilson is the best man." saat S
 {. An angular, bespectacled woman with gray hair berated the offender in vigorous terfns.
 .You ought to know better than to 6n anything like that" she said. "Mr. wilson Is visiting us here. He has been good enough to stop, and the least that we can do Is to vote for him." It
 The contribution of another censor was: .Your ought to be ashamed to confess that you are going to vote against MT. Wilson. He has kept, us out or war, and that lis more than that Hughes is going to do." \
 The belligerents utterly ignored the President and Mrs. Wilson, who ap- peared to extract a good deal of fun out of the incident. The wrangling !, continued as the train started to pull out The President, having recovered himself. urged arbitration.
 You make it verA embarrassing for me, ladies, to be present at such a debate" he said. ''I can only give YOU my blessing, and express the hope that the majority, which seems to be on the right side, will triumph
 More than 5000 people were at the railway station at Clinton. Ia., earlier in the morning. but no arrangements had been made for the train to stop nor had the President been advised of the gathering. He was still asleep while the train pulled through the great crowd. and 1t rrYst be confessed he is in danger of losing few votes because Of the fact
 The stay in Chicago was limited to an hour, which, he devoted to confer ring with Senator Walsh, the Western Democra tic ms nager; Senator Sauls- bury who is promoting the candida- cies cf Senatorial nominees. and Gov Duhne The Democratic Presidential and Illinois Gubernatorial candi dates talked over the situation for twenty minutes.
 The Governor gave the President very encouraging news regarding the outlook in his state. He predicted, among other things; that majority of the women of Illinois, who will register tomorrow. will vote for the Democratic candidates. The Governor and Senator Walsh agreed that the women voters of the state are fully convinced of the friendly attitude of the President toward them. and that his peace programme will prove more acceptable to them than the attitude assumed by the Republican Presiden- tial candidate on the subject of in- transitional relations The President was gratified by the assurances given him by Senator Walsh and Gov. Dunne.
 The managers of the Democratic Western campaign were not slow to appreciate the significance of the ex- traordinary demonstration of the prosider1t's popularftt in Nehra