The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-01
GIVEN WELCOME
BY THOMPSON

I [Ta51ea Press Leased Wire Service.1
s1s9haz5-~ss roos1ing in Chicago
today, The orphan Peoples Council
Of America for Democracy and Peace
apparently had adopted Father
Dearborn after being disowned by
Fargo, N D. Minneapolis, Mimi,
and Hudson. Wis.
Eighty delegates who left New
York Thursday afternoon for the
peace conference somewhere in the
west arrived here last night on
their special train and were to be
Joined today by the Minneapolis wing
OF the council headed by Louis p
Lochner, executive secretary and
ization. Other delegates were ex
pected to arrive this morning. Lead
ers declared they had options on two
west side locations for meeting,
probably to be held Sunday. There
was some talk that the meeting would
be transferred to Milwaukee, while
others insisted on going to Minneap-
oils to flight it out" Lochner's pro-
posal to wish the conference on
Washington, had some hackers, too,
though the majority favored some
western city. seeing the council is
already here"
So far as Chicago is concerned
the conference has the o. K. of big
Bill" Thompson, mayor of the sixth
German city in the world"
81 can do nothing to prevent them
from meeting in Chicago said the
mayor. "Pacifists are law abiding
citizens. l know of no law to pre-
vent free speech in this country.
Thank God some folks haven't the
power to change the constitution OF
the United States every fifteen min
utes."
The delegates today were quarter
ed in the Fort Dearborn hotel The
special train-at $3.50 a day-was
still under charter TO them.
| Members Of the committee on ar
engagements" said today that there
was a possibility of the conference
being held in New York. They said
they had assurance that the meet
! ing could be held there, but declined
to state from whom they obtained
this assurance.
The s1S0-a-day special train has
| been cancelled.
Can't Light in Milwaukee.
| MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 1.-The
Peoples Council dove of peace can't
! Tight" here. Governor Philip has
announced that the proposed confer
state and Sheriff McManus has Or
| dered out reserve deputies for action
| in case the organization attempts to |,
defy the governor.
Washington Next.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. l.
They came-they read the morning
papers-they went THE PEOPLES
Council will meet in Washington to !
determine their constitutional rights"
said Louis P. Lochner, executive sec ]
rotary of the council, on board the {
train carrying them from Minneapolis :
to Chicago. Lochner attempted to
hide from reporters by locking him. '
self in compartment, but they got '
to him anyway. t
They also found Adolph Germer 7
who said he joined the MINNEAPOLIS t
delegation Friday. Germer said the {
executive council had reached the t
decision to meet in WASHINGTON on y
the train enrOute here O
Changed Again. Il
CHICAGO, Sept. THE peace con. II
terence of the Peoples Peace Councir {"
Will he held in Chicago Immediately is
rms announcement was made bv II
Robert Howe. secretary Of the Cook CT
county socialist league as spokesman OF
Tor se7enty-five members of the conn. d.
en- gathered at the Fort Dearborn no.
H. hi
howe said the delegates will 20 at CO
once to the West Side audttorinrn I'll
where the meeting will get under wav W
L., george I,unail, of Brooklyn. in is
the first steps Of the conference would Sc
ne the election Of officers and estah. m
hshment Of a permanent ORGANIZATION If
co,,o No., TO
Sovernor Moves to End Meeting. SC
SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Sept 1-Gnv. %