The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-03
THOUSANDS HEAR
 WILSON IN N. Y.
(Continued from Page 17.) Crowd Cheers Seabury.

i Seabury, candidate for governor, was shouted at and cheered for eight min
 utes, though he held up his watch
 protestingly, trying to explain that | there were but a few minutes in which 1 he might talk. He actually talked four
 minutes when he got a chance and he told the crowd that the people of the country owe an enormous debt Of
 gratitude to the President and that they would pay their debt next Tues
 day.
 | 'The sure guarantee of the preser-
 vation of peace,' said MT. Seabury. 1 lies in the reelection of President
 Wilson,
 l Then William F. McCombs spoke.
 The people had a right to complain of
 the campaign made by MT. Hughes, he said. Lincoln, Grant, Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft, he recalled, had a program and had sought to carry it out and had argued for it. /
 You have as much right to have a program presented to you. you Repub- licans who are here, as the voters to whom those men appealed. They have no right to insist that you vote for people merely to let them get into of- flee. They are asking you to sign 8 blank check and to let them fill out i the amount after election" said Me- Combs.
 Glynn Arouses Auditors. Former Gov. Glynn, whose popular ity was instantly attested the moment
 he appeared, delivered a speech that set the great crowd wild. He spoke
 of the difficulty of the task Mir. Wilson
 had had to face, and then declared
 that he had redeemed not only the pledges of the Democratic party but those of the Progressives as we'll and all of the pledges of the Republicans l that were in the public interest. "A
 good red-blooded administrator had
 been given by the President, said Mr. Glynn.
 After relating the various acts that had been done for the betterment of the country, Mr. Glynn said:
 He stands for the Americanism
 whose body, whose life blood and whose soul is the fortifying faith, the inspirational belief that this old flag of Ours-with it's red stripes and white bars and blue field of stars gives you and me and every man within our land something to hope for, something to pray for, something to work for and something 10 live for -as we'll as something to fight for and something to die for.''
 Cheers Herald Wilson.
 MT. Glynn was concluding; when tho cheering outside announced the ar- rival of the President The cry of welcome was taken up inside, and as MT. and Mrs. Wilson (who had also entered by the fire escape), came down upon the stage the enormous crowd rose up and gave one glad yell of greeting that was deafening. While Mrs: Wilson stood by the President and waved her hand in ob- vious enjoyment of the remarkable scene, the people tout in front stood
 on chairs and waved flags until the whole floor of the Garden was a rip
 bling sea of red, white and blue. Those in the galleries, having no flags of their own picked up the draped banners along the railings and waved them.
 In few minutes the President mo- toned for quiet, but the crowd would not obey. Another mighty shout greeted his protest, and he smiled. This was repeated several times Oc- casionally, when the band played very 1oudIy, the crowd would rest from its cheering, but only momentarily. Each time, as the band concluded, the President stepped forward to speak, and each time the crowd greeted him with a shout and drove him back.
 So the noise kept up, varied with
 the singing of Columbia the Gem of
 the Ocean," the national anthem and
 we Won't Go Home Until Morning.
 until 27 minutes had elapsed. When
 finally quiet was restored, mainly by
 Augustus Thomas, who had a ma11et,
 the President began speaking.i
 Band Interrupts President. Unfortunately. the President had hardly thanked the crowd for it's
 royal reception when a band at one of the overflow meetings, began to play 'The Red, White and Blue'' so
 loudly that the President had to wait
 until it had passed on. It was ap- parent too that the Presidents voice
 was not carrying throughout the
 great building, and the crowds in the far galleries became restless. As the President continued those
 near the stage and in the galleries di-
 rectly behind the speaker listened in- tently. Those further away began
 moving down the stairs toward the floor in an effort to get nearer. They found the aisles damned, and hence had to leave the building. The ex- ample of the few was followed by
 many who could not hear and were reluctant to yell at the President to speak louder. Every one within hearing distance, however, stayed un- til the end of the speech. Then, as the President concluded and turned to leave, the crowd once more shouted it's approval and kept l cheering until he and Mrs. Wilson were we'll on their way to the fire es: | cape, by which they made their exit | to find another cheering crowd out 1 side awaiting a mere glimpse o1 1 them. ,,o o,,foo roc N;I To,on