Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-09-04
COLUMBUS FIRST STOP.

Washington. Sept. 3.-President Will
son left Washington tonight for coun-
try-wide speaking trip TO tell the Ameri-
can people first hand of his part in the
peace negotiations and to make per-
sonal appeal that the peace treaty be
ratified without amendment.
The presidents special train. on which
he will live nearly all of the time for
the next % days. departed at O'Clock
The first leg of the trip of nearly TO-
600 miles will be completed tomorrow
morning in Columbus. Ohio. where he
will make the first of his thirty sched-
uled addresses.
The president and his party reached
the station at 6:45 O'Clock and were Civ
en- an ovation by the crowd. After es-
corting Mrs. Wilson to the private car,
the president returned to the platform
and chatted with friends until time tor
his train to leave.
Accompanying the president. in addi-
ton to Mrs. Wilson. were Joseph +
Trmulty. his secretary. and Rear Ad-
miral Cary T. Grayson, his physician.
Thirty Correspondents In Party.
Nearly thirty newspaper correspond
ents also were aboard the train, IN ad-
dition to the force of official stenog-
raphers and secret service men,
The trip. perhaps the most ardnous
ever undertaken by president, will
carry Mr.. Wilson and his party as far
west as the Pacific coast, almost to the
Canadian border on the north, and al
most TO Mexico on the south. He will
speak in every state west of the Missls-
sippi except four, and will make up for
the omission of these by speeches in
Ohio. Indiana. Kentucky and Tennessee
In point of distance covered. the tour
will be almost on par with the presl-
dent $ trip TO France and return, and
the members of his party expect it to be
much more strenuous because of its con-
tinuity and the long. fast rides through
the west.
Although the detailed schedule was
held in confidence in the interest OF
safety to the presidential train. it is un-
derstood most of the stops would be only
for three or four hours. In Des Moines,
Seattle. Los Angeles and louisville
however, where Sunday stops are made,
the president will have opportunity for
brief resrites In Seattle he will review
the Pacific fleet.
The speech making schedule is Wig
orous one from the start. After MS al
dress at Columbus. tomorrow, Mr.. WI
son will go to indianapolis in time for
HI evening IuASS thttAihe- ihSht - ''.''
continue westward with short stops at
st. Louis and Kansas City, reaching
Des Moines Saturday for the weekend
Cities He Will Visit.
The following week will take him Tar
into the west by the northern route with
speeches Mt Omaha, Sioux Falls. St
Paul, Minneapolis. Bismarck, Billings,
Helena. Coeur d'Alene, Tacoma and Sc
attle
After that will come Portland, San
Francisco, San Diego. Los Angeles,
Reno. Salt Lake City. Cheyenne. Denver
Pueblo. Wichita. oklahoma City, Little
Rock. Memphis and Louisville.
Although it is expected that the pres
iient will devote most of his attention
to the peace treaty. he probably also Will
touch on the high cost Of living and 9TH
er domestic problems. 1t has been point
ed out that much of his itinerary hes
through the northwest, where labor ana
social unrest has been pronounced.
After the same manner as he went 20
the country for his preparedness meas
ures. his advisers say he is prepared to
make new the fight of his political llte,
If necessary. for the ratification OF the
peace treaty.
But the principal message to be taken
to the people is expected to relate to
the negotiations and treaty OF Versailles.