Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-02
Lewis In Stirring
Appeal for State
to Back President

/ wherever he appeared, carried his
plea for a rally of the patriotic cit
izenship back of Woodrow Wilson
into the big west side wards oi
Chicago last night.
Before capacity audiences of men
and women in the Robert Emmet
and John Marshall high schools he
called upon Chicagoans to take
counsel with their consciences and
answer the question, Why are we
called upon to rebuke the presi-
dent in this critical hourT
His hearers, swept by an enthus-
iasm such as never before devel-
Oped in an Illinois political cam
paign, climbed upon chairs to shout
their Indignation over the Republi-
can leaders hypocrisy so eloQuentlJ
unmasked by the man President
Wilson is asking for. He said:
is there an issue on which you
are asked to vote against Wilson &
ticket? Is there one thing charged
against the administration? MOI
Is there any charge of one failure
in the army? No,
is there accusation of one fail
ure of the navy? Mo- Is there
any charge of any one act in the
long, dreadful tragedy we have had
to carry on that we Jailed in? No!
Not one act Of Wilson's admin
istraGon is assailed or accused
Then why, on what grounds, do you
think of voting against your coun-
try?
Your land is at war Your chill
dren are fighting for their lives and
for the homes of their fathers. The
administration at Washington has
added to itself the aid of every
commanding Republican who could
give his time.
Senator Root of New York was
sent as special ambassador to Rus
sia The recent candidate for pres
ident, Charles E. Hughes, is given
full control of the airpIane recon
struction investigation made
counsel for the United States.
Many others are giving their
time and talents with Wilson.
Shall any Republican citizen re
fuse his cooperation because of 8
difference in names-nOw meaning
less? What does Republican mean
today? What does Democrat mean
Neither means anything.
The word democracy means all
it is the spirit OF justice for which
Republican sons are fighting. II
is democracy for which Democratic
sons are fighting. II is democracy
the lands of Europe are fighting for
and her sons dying for
is the winning of this democ-
racy that has crushed Turkey
broken imperial Austria and
brought the military masters oi
Prussia to their knees pleading tC
the United States for mercy.
Shall it be written hereafter thai
every land and every noble spirit oi
justice accepts Wilson but his owr
country? Shall party spirit in Hi
nois put the great state OF Grant
and Lincoln where the children oi
the men who fought with them shall
be shaned? No, a thousand times
no,
Let Illinois recover her sense Oi
justice. for a moment frightened by
false creeds, and come as one great
people to Wilson, to his aid, 70 theii
country to the glory and fu-
ture honor of Illinois. Let each
voter give one vote for Wilson de
mocracy and our soldiers in honor
and victory"
Let Illinois recover her sense OF
justice, for a moment frightened by
false creeds, and come as one great
people to Wilson, to his aid, to their
81 g.,
ture honor of Illinois. Let each
voter give one vote for Wilson, de-
mocTacy and our soldiers in honor
and victory"
Loop district traffic was actually
helpless before the demonstration
that developed in the streets from
the 5000 persons who were unable
to gain admittance TO Senator Lew
is MONDAY meeting in Cohan's
Grand opera house. where he plead
ed for an election result that will
"diSa ppOint the kaiser"
Thirty policemen, many of them
mounted, were needed to get the
senator through the solid wall OF
humanity around the theatre at the
conclusion of the meeting. Men
sprang to the tops of wagons and
automobiles shouting: Talk to us
out here; we couldn't get in"
The entire crowd, densely packed
in the street and on the sidewalks
completely halting traffic for many
minutes, followed the senator to the
door OF the Hotel La Sale For a
time it looked as if the wildly en-
thusiastic crowd might unintention-
ally do him bodily harm.
On the steps of the hotel be
stopped long enough TO thank them
for the demonstration Then the
crowd staged an impromptu tribute
A man called for Three cheers for
the greatest senator Illinois ever
had. and the multitude responded
enthusiastically.
The kaiser has doffed his steel
helmet in respect to the president. -
was the statement with which the
senator set the theatre crowd wild
lis il TO be said that the one state
OF the world which does not pay re-
spect 10 the president is Illinois
the state Of Lincoln and Logan -
ne asked
In answer to that query the crowd
came to its feet. shouting. mo. no.