Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-28

preSlQentlal party WAS Srecleu WIN
continuous cheers and applause of the
multitudes everywhere. The police and
military arrangements were so perfect
that it would have seemed impossible
for evil disposed persons, If any there
were on hand, to carry out their de-
signs, and nothing untoward happened.
Women suffragists who had prepared
a demonstration, were picked up by
the police before they could demon
strate and but few people knew they
were in town. The president stood UP
in a slow moving automobile, bowling
to the right and the left, and the pro-
cession finally wound up at Mechanics
hall, which was already filled with an
audience Of 5000 people. The address
in which the president told what he
went to Europe for and what has been
done over there, Is as follows:
Presidents Address.
Governor Coolidge. Mr.. Mayor. Eel
low Citizens: I wonder if you are
half as glad to see me as am to see
you. 1t warns my heart to see a great
body Of my fellow citizens again, be-
cause in some respects during the re-
cent months have been very lonely
indeed without your comradeship and
counsel, and I tried at every step OF
the work which fell to me to recall
what was sure would be your counsel
with regard to the great matters which
were under consideration.
do not want you to think that l
have not been appreciative Of the ex-
traordinary reception which was given
to me on the other side, in saying that
it makes me very happy to get home
again. I do not mean to say that l
was not deeply touched by the cries
that came from the great crowds on
the other side. But want to say to
YOU in all honesty that felt them to
be call Of greeting to you rather than
to me.
I did not feel that the greeting was
personal had in my heart the over
crowning pride Of being your repre-
sentative and Of receiving the plaudits
of men everywhere who felt that your
hearts beat with theirs In those great
crowds. It was not q tone or mere
greeting; 1t was not tone OF mere
generous welcome; it was the calling
of comrade to comrade, the cries that
come from men who say. I'VE have
waited for this day when the friends
of liberty should come across the sea
and shake hands with us. to see that
new world was constructed upon
new basis, and foundation OF justice
and right"
Inspired by Crowds Voices.
can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out of those simple voices OF the
crowd. And the proudest thing have
to report to you is that this great coun-
try of ours is trusted throughout the
world.
I have not come to report the pro-
ceedings or the results Of the proceed
ings Of the peace conferences; that
would be premature. I can say that
have received very happy impressions
from this conference; the impression
that while there are many differences
of Judgment, while there are some dt-
vergences Of object, there Is neverthe-
less a common spirit and a common
realization Of the necessity Of setting
up new standards of right in the
world.
Because the men who are In CONFER
ence in Paris realize as keenly as any
American can realize that they are MOI
masters of their people, and that the
spirit Of their people has awakened tc
a new purpose and a new conception
of their power to realize that purpose
and that no man dare go home IRON
that conference and report anything
less noble than was expected Of 1t.
Why Conference "Goes Slowly.
The conference seems to you to 81
slowly: from day to day in Paris i
seems to go slowly; but 1 wonder /
you realize the completely OF the tasi
which It has undertaken. 1t seems a
il the settlements of this war arect
and affect directly. every great. and
sometimes think every small, natlol
in the world, and no one decision cal
prudently be made which Is not prop
erly linked with the great series OF oth
er decisions which must accompany II
And It must be reckoned in with tn
final decision which must accompan!
IL. And it must be reckoned in will
the final result If the real quality am
character Of that result is to be prop
erly judged.
What we are doing is to hear tn
whole case; hear it from the mouth
of the men most interested; hear
from those who are officially commits
stoned to state it; hear the riva
claims; hear the claims that affect neH
nationalities, that affect new areas
the world, that affect new commercia
and economic connections that nav
been established by the great worl
war through which we have gone. An
have been struck with the moderate
ness Of those who have represente
national claims. I can testify that
have nowhere seen the gleam OF pas
sion. I have seen earnestness' nav
seen tears come to the eyes OF me
who pleaded for down-trodden peopi
whom they were privileged to spea
for; but they were not the tears of an
guish, they were the tears Of arden
hope.
And I don't see how any man ca
fail to have been subdued by thes
pleas, subdued to the feeling that h
was not there to assert an individuf
Judgment Of his own. but to try to as
,ist the cause Of humanity.
All Look to America.
And in the midst Of 1t all, every II
terest seeks out. first of all. when
reaches Paris, the representatives
the United States. Why? Because
and I think I am stating the MOI