The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-26
NOISY WELCOME
GIVEN PRESIDENT
WILSON GIVEN OVATION IN Los
ANGELES, WHERE HE AO.
DRESSES MASS MEETING.
Ride Of Ten Miles Through Streets o.
Southern California Metropolis i.
One OF Continual Demonstration
for Executive

i Il guaranty of justice and, without
The treaty of peace with Germany. in.
Guiding the covenant, the world would
sink back into that slough of despond
in which mankind was before this war
began" President Wilson told a crowd
of l2.OOO persons that surged abour
his special train when it stopped here
for twenty-five minutes Monday after
noon.
The president was completing n
weeks tour of the state, his brief adj.
dress at Sacramento completing his
speech making in the golden state
| The president had not originally in.
tended speaking ut Sacramento, but
acceded to popular request. A. 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
crowd which densely packed The down.
town section. the president was cheer.
q. unanimously everywhere he ap-
reared during the day. Along the
line of a ten-mile parade he rode in
din of applause and later ut pub
lie dinner cheers greeted his declara.
tons that the treaty should aud would
be accepted.
When he entered the auditorium for
his night speech he was cheered for
more than two minutes by crowd
estimated by the police at six thous-
and. The hall was damned 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
lay before his assassination, and as
serted that the martyred presidents
words about concord and arbitration
seemed to show he had Il 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 proposal
for disentanglement.
what Washington had in mind was
9 exactly what these gentlemen want to
y lead us back to-" he said. THE day
e of alliances is behind us"
e Article Y the president character
lied as an extension of the Monroe
doctrine to the whole world. He de-
II clared there could be no real world
d rehabilitation until the universal spirit
d Of unrest was quoted by the establish
v ment of peace.
Il. Without the United States in the
league, said the president, there could
+ be no real guarantee of the peace SET
ID Element. Because the American sugges
10 lions ut the peace table had been ac
ST cepted as entirely diSintereSted, he de
n clared, most of the decisions at thu
rs conference were framed, in the end
n ION American specifications" Indus
of trially, economically, and politically, h
~ added, the world would be sin despair
d. If America now deserted it.
ca President Wilson came to Los An
geles Saturday to conclude his sta
ne on the Pacific coast with two-da
is visit devoted mostly to rest. The on
81 appointments on his program up |
H. his departure Sunday night were
IT'S public dinner and night address
the Shriners auditorium
nv Most of Sunday the president an
m. Mrs. Wilson spent quietly, leavln
leo their hotel only to attend services du
ing the morning at st. PaulS Epise
nh pal cathedral. A report that the
I'D would take an afternoon automobi
.be ride brought big crowd around Il
,ar hotel but it waited in vain.
On. All extract from a magazine artle
an. written in 1914 by Theodore Roosevt
81, was read by President Wilson in an
oct dress at San Diego on September
ro. as an argument in favor Of the leag
Of nations.
Speaking to cheering crowd, VIII
aat filled the great San Diego stadium I
-. president also quoted from Senat
Lodge, one of the most bitter oppt
,.a ents of the treaty in it's present for
and declared that, in framing
league covenant, the Versailles com
eEce had followed the advice Of I'M
End other Republican statesmen.
an -
us When the presidential spec
'er- stopped for few minutes ut Gee
yer side. Cal, an old man told Mr.. WIZ
III that he was for the league of nnto
hea and added, Il am a Republican, 0u
'he voted for you last time and will '
ers' for YOU again"
YER mo. am not laundering for II
70 BILE" replied the president viii
laugh.
Grape crowers Have oackset.