Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-04
SON @PUT PUNCH
! PREPAREDNESS" AND
CONGRESS MAY ACT
!. friends Predict the Adop-
t;on of the Presi-
dents Program for
Defense
WASHINGTON TODAY
81, West Trip, He Says, Gar Ex-
y. ..ded NV Most Optimistic
Expectations"

noARp THE PRESIDENTS SPE-
~ bVlN ~ THAT President Wilson'S
~ 5noss program will be adopted
DSross before the end of March was
eons ssredicted by those close to the
.sIdent today.
,bis opinion was based on the
Ane,,h, Nth which the President was
huslaSs.Wi lie Central Western tour, or
~ !" was expressed in the light OF
ene,, e,,onal developments, could not be
rned ,,,,i.,,,.,
he - tho last lap of the journey
ns bennington. He will reach the
.ariv this afternoon after a trip.
Ply of which, he says, have far
IssSi' sd INV most optimistic cxpecta-
ns" ,.
uhore along the route between
,'h,,rg and Washington today the
-, Iii sion. and every one In the
~ ortv including the President and
rilson will give the movie men
cbance to snap the crowd which
hcen dputting the punch in prepared
s"
IN. President is said to feel that the
e,,.. ne is not vet complete" SO far
\, bas rome he Is enthusiastic over
uccess hut his friends believe that
.So,id 60 south and farther west. 1t
snderstood today that plans for at
:. ,ho southern trip will be begun as
as the Executive returns to WASH
ton .-.-,..-.
"TRIP CALLED A SUCCESS.
t,rs is a feeling among those closest
,ho president that the effect of the trip
a,oh the Middle West will be to swing
! line some of the Democrats who nave
& N amusing the Presidents program.
vas made evident during the journey
II
tbe Presidents ideas concerning ma
iral preparedness, or readiness, have
bn misrepresented.
fhat the stories concerning opposition
srch centres as Chicago. Milwaukee
st Louis have been exaggerated.
shat the so-caled hyphenated disloy-
n either had been rreatly overdrawn
81 that the trip of the President and his
4 ialght.f om-the-shoulder talks have
ned out much of the feeling.
fbat there is nothing apparent in Ohio,
nos, western Pennsylvania, Wiscon-
4 Iowa. Kansas and Missouri to justify
assertion of Republicans that the
..intry has been turning against the
esident.
EsIDENT AS ABLE CAMPAIGNER.
hat the President is one of the ablest
npalgners for a cause ever seen in the
st.
|hat he has completely eliminated any
d who might aspire to capture the
.mocratic nomination from him.
That William j. Bryan has lost his
ID in States which were once his strong
s ds and is not today the formidable
tor in national Democratic politics he
ee was,
That the followers of Theodore Roose-
i in the Middle West are still numerous,
not so numerous as they were.
rhe largest city gone to was Chicago.
e people there were enthusiastic for
eparedness.
The second largest place was Cleveland,
: d hearty approval was shown there.
INA HYPHENATED NEST"
milwaukee, said to have been veritable
est Of hyphenated loyalty and ami
4slty, turned oLt and greeted the Presi-
nt with extreme warmth, though 1t did
take vigorously to the preparedness
"a st. Louis another alleged hotbed of
ided loyalty, threw its gates wide open
gave the third largest demonstration
all
Kansas City, largely of American born
pnlatlon, opened the flood gates and
duced the greatest crowd of all. indors-
national defense and with Il thunder
e ayes" put through it's great meeting.
record as being willing to make any
frihce for the nation.
pes Moines, home of Roosevelt and
IAN men, packed its biggest auditorium
~ thousands and put 80. X" unmis-
sAoly on the Presidents program.
opeka, filled with farmers from out
ng sections who avowedly were against
paredness and not friendly to the Pres
znt put what amounted to the seal of
s. Yroval on preparedness Here hostility
changed TO friendliness,
RESULTS CHEER WILSON.
ne trip Of the President probably will
down in history as one of the most
aole ever taken by a head of the ma
In results it is cheering to the
sident.
TN the Democratic leader of the
use, Claude kitchin, hard set against
Iesluehts proposal and upward of
.her Democrats trailing along with the
oslnon' the friends of the President
ssery reason to believe that the ma
~ aeiense program, which is merely
enlarged navy and a potential
would so to smash. 1t was
was found to be hanging in
Dalance that the President decided
y out and make his appeals to the
oNs on his return, he is more than
- with the fruits of these appeals.
~ tuily understood by him that, in
ps large way. his whole political
ana mis- vital program of national
vs. vs. we're the stakes for which he was