The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01
PRESIDENT IS GREETED
BY FRIENDLY CROWDS AT
CHICAGO AND MIL WAUKEE
Mayor of Milwaukee Sees
Answer to Charge That City
Is Not for america
First In Outpouring of
Citizens.

O1G1ZGuS.
Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. AS if in
reply to the challenge, ''You are not
| for America first, last, and all the
time,'' the people of Milwaukee turned
out in great throngs yesterday to pay
thibute to the President of the United
States and pledge him their support.
This city, SO frequently referred to
as a hotbed of pro-German sentiment,
gave abundant evidence that it was
behind the President in his efforts to
prepare the country for any emergen-
! cy which might place the honor of the
nation in jeopardy. AS Mayor Bading
and other prominent men phrased it:
This is Milwaukee's answer to the
world
President! Wilson in his address at
the Auditorium, where about 5000 men
and women had collected to greet him,
said he had no doubt where the citi-
zens of foreign birth and lineage would
stand if a crisis were to come. He
again gave warning that no man could
tell at what hour the fire might spread
to US.
1t was plain talk to an audience
which it had been said might prove
hostile. and cheers were the response
The President said he knew that it
was difficult to forget blood ties and
traditions, and added:
AT the outset of the war it did look
as if there were division of domestic
sentiment which might lead us to some
Ferrors of judgment and some errors of
action; but I, for one, believe that the
dangis is passed. And have at no
time supposed that the men whose
voices seemed to contain the threat, of
the sentiments even of those whom
they pretended to resent.
And so the troublemakers have
shot their bolt, and it has been inef-
fectuaL Some of them have been vo-
Fciferous; all of them. have been ex-
ceeding1y Irresponsible
The great audience cheered and it
cheered again when the President af-
ter stating that there was no prece-
dent in American history for aggres-
sion, made this assertion, looked upon
by many a direct attack upon Col
Roosevelt.
Men who seek to provoke US to
such action have forgotten the tradi-
tons of the United States
Found 1t Day of Triumph.
It was a day of triumph for Presi-
dent Wilson from the moment he left
the train here to be greeted by a salute
OF FL guns. Whereas some had pre-
dicted that there would be g. small
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