Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-19
MARTIAL SPIRIT DOMINATES ALL
 IN THE EAST
CHICAGO TRANSFORMED INTO VAST MILITARY CAMP AND PATRIOTISM RUNS RIOT SAYS AT TORNEY ANDERSON.
(From Thursdays Oaily.)

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 like of which has never before been witnessed in the United States, ac- cording to Attorney LcRoy Ander-
 son, who has just returned from a trip to Chicago, Cleveland and Co., lumbus According to Mir. Anderson, the martial spirit IS overwhelming every other human emotion in the
 larger cities of the East, and slowly
 but surely the same wildly patriotic spirit is moving westward and in a
 short time will envelop the entire
 confines Of the United States.
 Just now, says Mir. Anderson, Chi cago is one great military camp, with
 seasoned troopers and raw recruits
 pouring into the city on every train
 At all of the leading hotels and the aters in the Windy City, the men in uniform are demanding and getting
 first attention, and the civilian is easily the second choice when it comes to the matter of getting service at any of these places.
 In Chicago at present, the most
 thoroughly hated man is Mayor Thompson, and the inhabitants of the big town are not at all backward in expressing their disapproval of the alleged pro-Gernran tactics which have been followed by their executive. As an example of the ill-feeling which exists against Big Bill" Mir. Ander- son cited one instance which came under his observation. The mayor was to have headed delegation of Chicago dignitaries in a visit to the State fair at Springfield, and en route into the city, the train carrying Mir. Anderson stopped at a large-sized town. through which it was expected that the mayor and his party would pass on their way to Springfield. The railway station had been profusely decorated with banners and p1acards extending to the mayor a pressing in vitation 10 keep right on going, and not to bother the townspcople by even stopping off for lunch. At an other station on the way into Chi cago similar sentiments were express ed in forceful manner which left nothing to the imagination as to the sentiment entertained by the loyal Americans as to the man who was once regarded as possible presidential timber. Thompson, according to Mir. Anderson, has even lost the respect of his former friends, the German element, the latter being more or less disgusted with him on account of his unpatriotic stand against the govern ment during this time of stress. With very few exceptions, Chicago, as we'll as the other cities visited by Mir. An derson, are intensely loyal, backing the president and refusing to indulge in any anti-war talk or criticisms of the nations executive.
 And the spirit manifested is not of the hip, hip, hurrah' sort,' said Mir. Anderson, but is something in the nature of religious fervor, with everybody willing to do his part in winning the big war. Men who are in touch with the situation do not hesitate to express the opinion tha, Uncle Sam has mighty big job on his hands and that the work of ridding the world of Prussianism cannot be accomplished short of two or three years.
 'It certainly does an American good | 10 get into section where patriotism IS at such white heat as it is in Chicago, and it has tendency to dis pei all beliefs that the nation is not behind the administration in prose cutting the war. Those who censured the president for not beginning the hostilities at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania, have now forgotten their differences, and are making it plain that the spirit of the whole United States is in favor of this war.
 ''To certain extent the Far West does not fully appreciate the fact that the nation has been plunged into the world struggle, but the realization of the presence of this situation is fast coming this way Of course VIC of the West do not daily come in con tact with all of the innumerable war such as are so plainly stamped upon the commercial life of the East, but the time is not far dis tant when the whole Western section will come to realize as keenly as any other part of the country that it has its particular burden to maintain in backing Uncle Sam. Right here in