The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-02-03
THE PRESIDENT
IN KANSAS TODAY
SPOKE IN LEAvENwoRTH AND
TOPEKA. IN K. C. TONIGHT.
THE FINAL ADDRESS IN ST, LOUIS
First Hitch in Trip Occurs at Des
Moines Through 5Junder Of Rail-
road In not Having His Special
Train Ready at the Depot.

Train Ready at the Depot.
On board the Presidents Special,
Kansas City, Feb. 2.-Presidelt Will
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 a 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
is the situation such that all
the President must do is to write
! notes?n he asked. America
should be prepared for war by
preparing her citizens to know
what war means and how con-
Quoted"
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 ana 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
! - 4 in "a
patchers Office pending the arrival OF
the car.
4 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 OH
his tour Of the central west, gathered
at the Coliseum in Bes MONIES last
night and waited several hours to
hear the nations executive
In the fifty five minutes in which he
talked the president urged the neees-
sity of this nation being fully prepar-
ed for dangers that come from our
contact with the rest OF the woriu,
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 munl-
,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 it is the duty OF
this country to do what it 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.
eL with applause at frequent inter-
= walls and every reference TO his Ell
\ forts to preserve peace met with q
hearty demonstration. The proposal
for government manufacture OF muni-
4 tions also receive generous express
sion Of approval from the great aud
Hence. His hearers waited in vain for
a reference to the continental army.
, The doors OF the great building
- were closed locked and barred at
!, 80 last night-the hour announced
=, as the opening hour-and more people
were outside the building than inside
when the doors were closed. For an
hour and half before the president
ARRIVED, the crowds serged at the
e doors, not knowing the Coliseum had
n been filed earlier battering on them
n and demanding entrance, until a com
e pany of militia was called to clear the
a multitude away.
2 Within the building band enter
II tained the audience with patriotic ant
e semi.patriotic airs of all lands and al
times. dividing its bill between 1T
e a Long Way to Tipperary" and Din
d ie" and the Chamber of Commerce
ID glee club equally neutral in the song'
g it chose to keep the audience quiet
a sang Iowa" and Chinatown as tn
n opening numbers.
Il In the midst of one of the number
OF the glee club the band struck W
America" and the president ant
= Mrs. Wilson and their escorts en-
4 tered, greeted by standing audienc
which cheered the nations chic
magistrate and his bride Justify, q
y, the same time waving thousands Q
small flags with which it had bee
Furnished.
Ia. The president entered thepbuildin
No accompanied by Governor George "
as Clarke. Secretary u p Tumutty Chic
Of Murphy OF the secret service an
NJ. President Harry II. Polk of the Grea
re err Des Moines committee. Mrs, M
son Immediately followed, accompa
an. led by Mrs. Harvey Ingham, Mrs. Z
% fayette Young. Jr.. and President As
ton Clemens of the Chamber of Cor
ne merce.