The sun., 1919-09-15
RADICALS LOOK
UPON WILSON As
THEIR CHAMPION
Substantial Citizens Of the
Northwest Alarmed by
Acclaim There.
HE is WILDLY CHEERED
Receives Delegation Which
Asks for Overthrow of
GOmpers.
LEAGUE QUESTION MINOR
Seattle More Interested in
Solving Critical Problem
of Labor Unrest.
LEAGUE QUESTION MINOR


out as the result of Woodrow Will
sons visit to the Northwest:
The mass of discontented are
inclined to hail him as leader. The
solid citizens with something at
stake are seething with indigna-
ton over his encouragement Of
agitation.
adequately proved by the amazing
reception he got in this city yester-
day. A mob engulfed him. 1t was
mob barely-just barely-restrained
by the clubs of the police. 1t
was an amiable mob. but one could
perceive its sinister character. The
thing was as palpable as a scream.
1t was sinister because there was
TO mistaking the truth that vast,
dull, blind force was cropping for a
leader and apparently finding one {;
| that this mob was in a gentle mood
for the time being because 1t was
hailing the man 1t perceived as
leader, acclaiming him and surging
after his motor car.
! Nor was there any mistaking the
fact that the mob could have obliter-
ated the police had 1t willed. 1t
could have rolled over the policemen
! like a wave. This fact was recognized
! by the police, by the officers of the
small military force present and by
the secret service agents attached to
the President. Nowhere in their ex-
perience, not even In Italy, where
similar vast, blind, duh forces were
! cropping for a leader and hailing one,
! had they been so alarmed as they
were yesterday, as they have been
/ in their whole stay in Seattle.
Police Ready to Club.
Nowhere have the police taken
such precautions. Nowhere have
they been reader to strike first and
/ question later-as they did several
times in the parade of yesterday
smashing down several hangdog
objects who essayed to throw some
thing or other, pamphlet doubt
less into the Presidents car.
Yet It is doubtful IL the President him.
self was in special danger, except that
peril from lunatics always present, for
there was nothing hostile to him in the
attitude of this extraordinary mob which
chcked the streets until all thorough
fares, except the ones the President was
moving through. were absolutely i'm
passable, and even in these his motor
car rolleu through the narrowest OF
lanes between solid walls of human
beings. In some sections of the city
these crowds were solidly of laborine
men and women, the workers that hav,
supported the revolutionary outbreaks IN
l this city; who are the backbone of the
/. w. w. and the Bolshevik movement
in America. And 1t was In these crowds
that the cropping, the hopeful reaching
out, for a leader was so perceptible.
Not a hostile glance was to be seen
Nothing but friendly scrutiny. disposi-
tion to estimate for themselves the mai
who has been telling them he never will
lift a finger to stop agitation. There II
not the slightest reason TO suppose thai
any of these people, unless he were ar
out and out lunatic, would have tried tC
harm the President Their attitude ant
their shouts demonstrated, on the con
trary, that they were welcoming him II
Seattle as their leader in the conflict
against capital.
Citizens Are Indignant.
As for the second fact, that hi,
speeches in this part of the country have
been as oil poured upon fire that mer
in Seattle who have a stake in the State
and city, something to lose in the case
of mob rule, are indignant and incenseC
over the statements Mr.. Wilson has seer
ut to make in the last week, nothing IL
more surely and swiftly demonstrated
Within the last twelve hours the writel
has heard Mr.. Wilson denounced by mer
who have helped to make the State o.
Washington and the city Of Seattle ths
fine communities they are-denouncet
in words that need not be repeated.
The heart OF their bitterness is thai
they had been making progress against
anarchy out here, following Mayor OlC
Hanson's vigorous measures had beer
keeping the /. w. w. and the BolsheYilS
down and had been institutlng somethin,
business men are now calling for al
over the country, propaganda fol
Americanism to meet the propaganda
for internationalism and syndicalism
They were checking this anarchy, hold
ing 1t level. at all events. Then along
comes Mr. Wilson and-let them say 4
In their own words--''plays hell" The,
say they know what the mob meant yes
terday. 1t was too significant to be dis
regarded.
Little Interest IN League.
OF this has nothing 20 DO with IL
League OF Nations though the state
ments SO objectionable to substahtis
men out here are employed by Mr.. Wi
9 son In support OF his special cause. j
has nothing to do with the League q
Nations because not one man in ten I
: this section of the country is actual
interested in the league idea, downright
! interested. The mob doesn't care han
: for II. except for a section here and Their
: and Is willing to take II because II haI
r pens TO be closer TO what they war
: than anything else lying around. rh