The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
X. C. IN BLAZE
OF PATRIOTISM
FLAG BEDECKED
Thousands Will March in 10y
atty Parade Tonight.
Winds Up With Mass Meeting
at Convention Hall.
BIGGEST OF ALL IN CHlCAGO
Greatest Patriotic Demonstra-
ton Ever Held in L. 5.
Patriotic Rally in independence
Square, Philadelphia.
Winds Up With Mass Meeting
at Convention Hall.
BIGGEST OF ALL IN CHICAGO
Greatest Patriotic DemOnstra-
ton Ever Held in L. >.

Kansas CITY. Mo, March 24-kan-
sas CITY spoke the patriotism OF thS
middle west today
Thousands of American flags float
cd from stores, office buildings lac-
tories and homes Business men ana
working men went to work this morn
ing wearing bits Of red, white and
blue on their hats and coat lapels
II was Kansas City's flag day" her
people were in the wake of the spirit
of war: they sounded the patriotic
note of that section of the United
States which the east had declared
could not be aroused.
Even some of the trains entering
Kansas City had caught the war
spirit and would enter the city deco
rated in the national colors.
Flag Display Today.
The flag displayed today was the
forerunner of Kansas City's loyalty
meeting in Convention hall, expected
TO he tie greatest patriotic demon
strlticn in the history of the middle
west. not even excepting the days of
the Spanish American war
Thousands will march tonight to
the loyalty meeting Whefe sections
have been reserved for patriotic or
Plantations. A typical instance of
how the military spirit had taken
hold OF Kansas City is the fact that
more than one thousand Italians,
many of them not yet American citi-
zeRs. will march in a body as evil
dence of their loyalty to the United
States. This body viii! be headed by
John George Italian alderman from
Little Italy"
senator Reed. Speaker.
Tonight at 5 o'clock, when Mayor
Edwards formally opens the loyalty
meeting, Kansas CITY will be standing
q attention behind the|president as
This country faces the most serious
crisis in its history.
Senator James A. Reed Missouri's
Junior senator, will be the principal
speaker Whether he will say any
ing in regard to Senator Stones failure
~ support the president is not known.
Many persons here today believed
stone would not be mentioned in Sny
way at the meeting, but that the meet
ing would serve as an indirect rebuI<e
1rom Missouri that her senior senator
Did not stand "squarely behind Presi-
GER Wilson during the closing hours
Of the last congress-
"Send Force TO France
Reed IS expected to repeat the
ftatement made in an interview here
several days ago that America must
enter the war and go all the way and
that American ships flying the Amer
lean flag must fight beside men Of
Britain and France on the vest
'front.'
! SuFpasses New York Celebration.
Chicago, March 24-Plans for the
biggest patriotic demonstration ever
held in the United States. one whose
Influence will be felt to the ends of
every spoke radiating from Chicago.
the hub of the nation. are under way
Today
Back of the movement, which will
have two-fold purpose. is Governor
Lowden. eX-Secretary of War Jacob
NJ. Dickinson, state and city officials
and leaders in financial and industrial
circles
y The demonstration, leaders say, will
far overshadow the Madison Square
Garden meeting at New York and will
be the reflected sentiment of the en-
The keynote of the speeches will be:
DO it now
"My Country-IEiSht or Wrong."
My country-right or wrong" will
be the refrain.
1t is, as planned. not to he a single
call to arms. but reply to the nations
call for defense; for fighting men and
Resources; for a clean cut pronounce
1nent of what the republic stands for.
1t is to be both a message and a
Remand that the president and con-
gress get down to brass lacks. An am
biguous note for universal training
also will be sounded.
The date and details of the day
and night of a single heart thrill will
be arranged at today's meeting, over
which Judge Dickinson will preside.
In Historic Old Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Pa. March PA
Tremendous movement was launched
in Philadelphia today to hold a huge
mass meeting in Independence Square
as a patriotic rally.
A number of leading Philadelphia
business men are back of the plan
and it is likely the meeting will be
held within a few days.
Prominent speakers will address the
crowds, altho no one has definitely
been selected.