Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-09-26
NOISY WELCOME
GIVEN PRESIDENT
WILSON GIVEN OVATION IN LOS
ANGELES, WHERE HE AD-
DRESSES MASS MEETING.
Ride of Ten Miles Through Streets Of
Southern California Metropolis 10
One of Continual Demonstration
for Executive.

| SacramentO-"The league of nations
is a guaranty of justice and, without
the treaty of peace with Germany, in
Guiding the covenant, the world would
sink hack into that slough of despond
In which mankind was before this war
began" President Wilson told a crowd
| OF 1900 persons that surged about
his special train when it stopped here
for twenty-five minutes Monday after
NOOK.
| The president was completing a
weeks tour of the state, his brief ad-
dress at Sacramento completing his
speech making In the golden state.
The president had not originally in.
tended speaking at Sacramento, but
acceded to popular request AS orig
inally planned, the president was to
have completed his weeks speech-mak-
ing on the Pacific coast at Los Angeles,
Saturday night
| Welcomed to Los Angeles by a
crowd which densely packed the down
town section, the president was cheer
ed unanimously everywhere he APP
peared during the day. Along the
line of ten-mile parade he rode in
| din of applause and later at pub
lie dinner cheers greeted his declara-
tons that the treaty should and would
be accepted.
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 six thous-
and. The hall was jammed and out
side were thousands who could not get
in. Some had been waiting since early
morning for the doors to open.
Mr.. Wilson alluded to an address
made by President Mckinley on the
day before his assassination, and as
serted that the martyred presidents
words about concord and 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
IOr encouragement
"What Washington had in mind was
exactly what these gentlemen want to
lead us back to-" he said "The day
of alliances is behind u.s."
Article X the president character
lied as an extension of the Monroe
doctrine to the whole world. He de-
clared there could be no real world
rehabilitation until the universal spirit
of unrest was quieted by the establish
ment of peace.
Without the United States in the
league, said the president, there could
be no real guarantee of the peace set
tlement. Because the American sugges-
tons at the peace table had been ac-
copied as entirely disinterested, he de-
clared, most of the decisions at the
conference were framed, in the end,
ION American specifications" Indus
trially, economically, and politically, he
added, the world would be sin despair"
If America now deserted 1t.
President Wilson came to Los An
geles Saturday to conclude his stay
on the Pacific coast with two-day
visit devoted mostly to rest. The only
appointments on his program up to
his departure Sunday night were a
public dinner and night address at
the Shriners' auditorium.
Most of Sunday the president and
Mrs. Wilson spent quietly, leaving
their hotel only to attend services dur
ing the morning at St. Paul's Episco-
pal cathedral. A report that they
would take an afternoon automobile
ride brought big crowd around the
hotel, but 1t waited In vain.
An extract from a magazine article
written in 1914 by Theodore Roosevelt
was read by President Wilson in an adj
dress at San Diego on September 10.
as an argument In favor Of the league
of nations.
Speaking to cheering crowd, which
filed the great San Diego stadium, the
president also quoted from Senator
Lodge, one of the most bitter Oppon-
ents of the treaty In its present form,
and declared that, In framing the
league covenant, the Versailles confer
ence had followed the advice of these
and other Republican statesmen.
When the presidential special
stopped for a few minutes at Ocean
side, CAL, an old man told Mr.. Wilson
that he was for the league of nations,
and added, II am Republican. but
voted for you last time and 1 will vote
for you again"
"No, am not laundering for trou-
ble," replied the president with a
laugh.