Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-02
SENATOR REED ROTTEN EDGED FROM PLATFORM Ardmore Citizens Shower Hen Fruit on Senator When He
 Starts Speech. HAD BEEN ASKED
 NOT TO MAKE TALK 6,000 Go Wild When Lights Go Gut and is Quieted Only When
 Women Mount the
 Stage.

Ardmore, Okla, Oct. 1.-Senator
 Reed was rotten egged from the stage of Convention Hall here tonight as he was being introduced by the mayor in preparation for his speech against the treaty and league of na- tions.
 The crowd more than 6,0O0 strong, went wild as Reed came on the stage, and all light wires to the build ing were cut. Pandemonium broke loose and cries of derision howed him down, while the audience surged upon the stage. Reed attempted to hold the floor for few minutes, but was forced to make his exit without 1 beginning his speech. After several minutes of the demonstration, a number of women climbed upon the stage and quieted the crowd. Reed could not be seen at his hotel here tonight, but it was announced that he would make no attempt to deliver his address.
 Senator Reed arrived in Ardmore accompanied by General Emmtt New ton, of Springfield, Mo. He went i'm mediately to the Washington Hotel and later a committee met him and escorted him to the Dornick Hills club where an elaborate banquet was serv- ed with many ArdmOre citizens pres ent. The rank and file, however, which gathered at the mass meeting at the Carter county courthouse, yes terday and passed resolutions censur- ing Reed and sent him a wire not to come to Ardmore, denouncing his stand on the league of nations in res olutions as undemocratic and unpat- rlotlc and un-American, were not in evidence at the banquet.
 Many Women Present. The hour of speaking had been set for S:30 and at that hour the Ard more convention hall with a seating. capacity of five thousand was filled to overflowing with fully six thou- sand people jammed into the build ing. Many Ardmore women were present. At 8:30 Fred Williams, of the reception committee introduced Mayor William Freeman of Ardmore after having first read a telegram from Jake l.. Hamon, who had been selected to preside at the meeting but who wired from Ranger, Texas, that it would be impossible for him to be present. Judge Freeman started to introduce the Missouri senator by stating his position and was ap- preaching a place wherein he was making clear his position, stating he was discharging his duty on behalf of the city whose chief executive he was, in introducing the speaker of the evening, no matter how diametrically his views and Senator Reeds might be on the league of nations.
 But before the period was reached came the anti-climax
 Without warning, out went the lights as some one, whom no one knows, had cut the light wires. I'm mediately pandemonioum broke loose.
 Some cool headed citizens reached the middle of the stage whereon seat ed Senator Reed, Mayor Freeman, and members of the reception con- mittee. He told them to "sit steady in the boat" that if any attempt was made to leave the stage, riot might | follow. Just at this point, a bom- bardment of ancient eggs began in a 1 more or less steady barrage over the | footlights.
 Prior to the rain of "shrapnel," the electric lineman had been sum- moned succeeded in fixing the lights. With the return of the lights, a sem blance of order was restored after | the first round of eggs had found | their marks. After the bombardment | came a slight Hull in the storm and l different ones unsuccessfully attempt 1 ed to quiet the audience long enough 1 to hear Reeds message"
 Citizens Humiliated.
 Every attempt of this kind, how ever, was greeted with misses, cat | calls and round after round of cheers for President Wilson.
 Hope of restoring quiet being at 1 last abandoned and in an effort to forestall any further scenes, con- mittee of women went up on the stage | and held an informal reception. Aft CT the crowd had thinned somewhat | the senator and those who were with him upon the stage left quietly and were driven to the hotel.
 Ardmore citizens expressed them selves tonight as feeling greatly over the trouble.
 Senator Reed has issued a state ment, in which he reviewed in detail, the events of the evening. The sena- tors statement does not cast re- flection on the citizens of Ardmore. However, his impression of Southern views on the league of | nations is none too favorable.
 Ardmore is the home of Con- gressman Charles Carter, a personal 1 friend of President Wilson.
 Continued on page five.)