The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-23
Welcomed to Los Angeles BY
Crowd Which Densely Packed
the Big Auditorium.
PARADE TEN MILES LONG
Everywhere the President APP
peared He Was Cheered Tu-
multuOusly-A Non Partisan
Meeting.

| Los Angeles, Sept. 22.-President
Wilson completed his week of speech
making on the Pacific coast Saturday
night with monster mass meeting
here at which thousands shrieked ap-
proval Of his plea for early ratification
Of the peace treaty.
! Welcomed to the city by crowd
which densely packed the downtown
section, the president was cheered tu.
multuously everywhere he appeared
during the day. Along the line of a
1O-mile parade he rode in a din Of ap-
plause and later at public dinner
cheers greeted his declarations that
the treaty should and would be ac
cepted
When he entered the auditorium
for his night speech he was cheered
for more than two minutes by a crowd
estimated by the police at $500. The
hall was jammed and outside were
thousands who could not get in. Some
had been waiting since early morning
for the doors to open.
AT the auditorium meeting Mr.. Will
son was introduced by Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles, national president OF
the General Federation of Women
clubs, who told the crowd that the
league must and will become the bull
wark of war weary world for all
time. The political PARTISAN" she as
serted, had no place in discussion of
the peace treaty.
! The meeting had been advertised as
one of strictly non-partisan charac-
! ter, and many of the states prom
inent Republicans sat on the plat
form. Among them were Henry w
Wright, speaker of the California as
sembly, and Marshall Stimson, who
was campaign manager in southern
California for Senator Hiram w
Johnson in 1910.
| The president alluded to an ad
dress made by President Mckinley on
the day before his assassination, and
asserted that the martyred Presi
dents words about arbitration
seemed to show he had a prophetic
vision on the eve Of his death.
Referring to objections that the
league would involve the United
States in entangling alliances. Mr.
Wilson said the league was in fact a
proposal FOR disentanglement.
What Washington had in mind
was exactly what these gentlemen
want to lead us back to-" he said
THE day of alliances is behind us"
| When Mr.. Wilson declared il was
matter of amazement that some
men were now opposing the league,
someone in the crowd shouted SHANE
on them!' and many others took up
the cry There were more cheers q
moment later when he declared the
treaty was founded on the rights OF
the weak rather than the power OF
the strong. 1t was peoples treaty,
he said, not statesman's treaty.
The people OF the world, said the
president, were tired of old system of
autocratic domination and they would
overthrow lit one way or another"
Under the league, he added. auto
cratic governments would be excluded
from decent society because only self
governing people would hold mem
bership.
Describing friend who he said
never let the facts get him if he saw
them coming first" the president as
serted that some men could not now
see the facts in the treaty discussion
marching upon them.
MY prediction is that the facts are
going to see them" he added, while
the crowd cheered again, "and make
very comfortable meal of them"
CONGRESSMAN THOMPSON OF