New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-11
Lets Work in Unity
for Better Nation"
He Urges
FIRST SPEECH
SINCE ELECTION
Cheered by Students After
the Christening of
Baby Sayre
from . stan Correspondent o, The Tribune.l

Willjamstown, Mass, Nov. 10.--ln his
first speeches since Election Day Pres
ident Wilson tonight urged that poll
tics and political prejudices be forgot
ten and the welfare Of the nation be
considered.
The President came here to stand as
godfather to his granddaughter
Eleanor Axson Sayre. He made two
speeches. one TO several hundred Will
iams College students and residents OF
Williamstown, and the other to resi-
dents of Pittsfeld, North Adams and
other Berkshire towns, who paraded
with torches and band to the Francis
B. Sayre home.
81 came away to escape making
speeches" said the President. Il came
purely on d private errand, and so you
will excuse ME if | do not discuss
public affairs. Now that the campaign
is over it is to the interest OF the
great country which has given us I'D
erty and freedom that we forget our
differences, forget our contrary pur-
noses and work in unity of spirit for
a better and a greater nation"
A great cheex greeted the closing
sentence, and some .Ane shouted:
"Three cheers for Baby ssyre!"
The President smiled broadly and
waved his acknowledgment of the trlb-
ute to Baby Sayre as he stepped inside.
Cheered by Students
Between three thousand and four
thousand persons heard his second
speech. Searchlights from an auto
mobile stationed on a hill opposite
played on the Presidents features,
while the whole lawn was Illuminated
bv red fire torches and burning brooms,
symbolizing the passing of Republican
"Cican sweep"
Called to the front porch of the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Francis b.
Sayre, earlier in the evening, the
President pleaded that politics be put
aside, NOW that the campaign is over,
and that the people of the country now
address themselves with unanimity
of spirit TO the problems at hand.
His brief talk followed the christen-
ing of his granddaughter. Eleanor
Axson Sayre. and tea at the residence
Of Henry A. Garfield. president of Will
Jams College and son OF PRESIDENT
James A. Garfield. When President
Wilson stepped out on the porch Sam-
uel P. Blagden. chairman of the Town
Council. welcomed him to the town.
President Garfield then extended
welcome in behalf of Williams College.
He intimated that although the politl-
cal views of some may have been at
variance with his they were greeting
him as a friend. our Chief and our
neighbor."
1--WE trust that this will not be the
last time you will visit the college"
he said. 81 remember that once you
told me that your experience as the
head of a college had made it easier
to meet some of the problems as Chief
Magistrate of the land
SAYS Fighters Should Forget
"Your president has told you that |
smoke of politics in college" said Mr..
Wilson. ale knows, as / know. that
there are subtleties of politics in col
lege life as we'll as in public life. for
politics. after all. is merely means
of getting what we want But now the
differences should be forgotten. ! don't
like the fighter who doesn't forget. He
has not got the right sort of red blood
in his veins"
President Wilson closed with legend
of a man who had a dream that he was
in a large hall and men in armor stood
sleeping by their horses. On dais
were a horn and a sword. and a mystic
rious voice told him TO choose. He
chose the horn, and Immediately the
whole scene vanished. Cursed be the
fool who chooses a horn instead OF
sword" said the same mysterious voice.
Cheering crowds and footing whis-
ties greeted the President H the way
here. The Mayhower had dropped an
chor below Kingston and Rhinecliff be-
fore daylight Secretary Tumulty's
message confirming the Presidents re-
election was not delivered until morn
ing. but the Mayhower had picked up
wireless election bulletins all night.
The special train bearing the Presi-
dent, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret Will
son and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones
left Rhinecliff at 10 o'clock as several
hundred persons jammed the tracks
and station platform. A crowd of st.