Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-11
HIRAM JOHNSON
 |S CHEERED AS 1920 PRESIDENT
Overflow Audience In Chicago Auditorium GreetS Meeting at
 Which G. 0. P. Senators Fire
 Opening VOlleyS at Wilson

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-Crowds to- night in vain besieged the auditorium theateT, where Republican senators began their western speaking tour in aLswer.to President Wilson's demands for unconditional acceptance or total rejection of the peace treaty and league of nations covenant Before s o'clock, the hour for opening the speaking, the theater was filled and thousands of persons were left in the streets.
 The thousands within and without had come to hear Senators William E. Borah of Idaho, Hiram W. Johnson of California and Medill Mccormick of Illinois, the latter presiding at the meeting, expond their views of the peace and league cove nant and reply to President Wilson's utterances on his swing around the country. Senator John son had spoken earlier in the day at a luncheon at the Hamilton club, but Senator Borah did not ar rive until late in the day and both de llVered night addresses formally start Ing their campaign of the west.
 JOnnSOn HreSioentldI Boom
 The crowd outside was led into re- peated cheering by a man who shout ed that Senator Johnson would be the next president
 While the throngs stormed about the various entrances after the doors had been closed by the police, a pa- rade was led by a soldier in uniform blowing bugle along Michigan boule- yard. Several hundred persons were m line with banners bearing such in- scriptions as Welcome to the men who are bringing our boys back from Siberia and We want our boys back from Siberia"
 Senator Johnson said tonight in part:
 Awful Confinement at Washington
 The opening sentence of the presi- dent at Columbus in his memorable swing around the circle struck me with a responsive and sympathetic chord: I have for a long time chafed at the confinement of Washington. he said and as we contemplate the extra ordinary rigors of a White House ex- istence, the silent suffering there for the long period of a month and a half. as we visualize his inability to com municate to the country the thoughts of which he says his heart was so full, as we view the enforced restraint dur ing this awful month which made it impossible for him from the nations capital to report to his fellow citizens. we welcome enthusiastically his pres ent trip and breathe a sigh of relief that the confinement in Washington is at least temporarily at an end.
 Says Wilson "Abusive"
 You have read, doubtless, as I have, his various addresses, what he terms his report to his fellow coun- trymen concerning those affairs of the world which now need to be settled. You have searched. doubtless, as I have, yearningly al-c 1ongingly for that report of which he speaks, and you may have discovered, as l fear I have, that his report apparently, has degenerated into rather incorporate and harsh criticism, and irritable and some times abusive characterizations.
 We may charitably ascribe the presidents condition to his long con finement of a month at Washington,
 
 sence of that ready subservient agree ment which he demands for his most cryptic expressions and his most mys- terious acts. I am hoping, because of my knowledge of the far western state to which he Is going, that its salu- brious climate and the balmy breezes of the Pacific may soothe his per turbed spirit and assuage his anguish: ed soul. The occasion is too import. ant, for the matter with which we deal is fraught with consequences too se- rious for the republic, for you and me to deal with it otherwise than calmly. Judicially and in good temper, and with every intellectual faculty with which God has endowed us.
 ''The crisis in the affairs of the re- public, however, is so grave that while we would not yield expression to the hot indignation we feel. and while we would accord to all our op- ponents the full measure of good faith which they deny us, yet never. theless we would speak plainly. and without ambiguous phrases or mys- tical or yelled allusions, point the na, tion's peril.
 Facts Confound President
 "The memorable facts make the is, sue with MT. Wilson. When he says the league of nations is the only con- ceivable arrangement which will pre- vent our sending our men abroad again very soon. the present condi- tions answer and confound him As he uttered his words. 10000 Ameri' can sons were being ordered by the Paris conference to embark from this