Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-09-04
HITCHCOCK ASSURES President
ofuTIMATE RATIFICATION OF PACT
WITHOUT KILLING" AMENDMENTS
AT COLUMBUS TO-DAY

Washington, Sept president
Wilson left Washington tonight for
countrywide speaking tour To tel
the American people first hand #
his part in the Peace negotiations
and To make a personal appeal that
the peace treaty be ratified without
amendment The president spec
al train ON which he viii live nearly
al of the time fnr the next twenty
five days, departed al : O'Clock The
FIRST leg of the trip of nearly ten
Thousand miles viii be completed to-
morrow morning in Columbus. O..
where he viii make the first of his
forty scheduled addresses.
The president and his party reach
ed the station HI % clock and were
cheered by the crowd. After escort
ing Mrs. Wilson TO the private car.
the president returned 70 the plat
form whspe he chatted with friends
until the time for his train TO leave.
Accomplishing the president were
Joseph p Tumu1ty. his secretary.
and Rear Admiral Carey T. Graysnn,
his physician. Nearly thirty news
paper correspondents also were
ao1ard the train in addition To the
srsnrgrzpters and secret service men.
The trip, perhaps the most arduuuE
ever undertaken by a president, will
carry Mr.. Wilson from the capital al
most To Mexico On the south. He
viii speak IN every state west Of ths
mississippi except four. and will
make up fer the omission of these
by speeches in Ohio, Indiana, Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
In point Of distance covered the
tour viii he almost on a par with the
presidents trip 10 France and return
and the members of his party expect
il TO be much more strenuous be-
cause of its continuity and the long,
fast rides through the west.
Although the detailed scheduled was
held in conference IN the interest of
safety of the presidential train, II If
understood that most of the stops will
be urfv for three or four hours. In
Dies Moines Seattle. Los Angeles and
Louisville. however. where Sunday
STOPS are made. the President viii nave
opportunity for brief respites., In Seat
tie he will review the Pacific Hest.
The speechmaking schedule LIS Wig
crpus une from the start. After hrs
address al Columbus tomorrow Mr..
Wilson viii go to indianapolis in time
for an evening mass meeting. Then he
viii continue westward with shnrt STOPS
at St. Louis and Kansas City, reaching
Des MONIES Saturday for the week END.
The following week viii take him TAR
into the west by the northern route.
with speeches AT Omaha, Sioux Falls.
81. Paul. Mimi. Minneapolis, Bismarck.
billings. Helena, Coen d'Alene. spD-
kane. Tacoma and Seattle. After thai
will come Portland. San Francisco, San
Diego Los Angeles. Rem, Salt Lake
CITY. CHEYENNE Denver. Pueblo. Wichi-
IA. Oklahoma City. Little Rock. Men,
niis and Louisville. The return To
washington will be ON September 20.
In addition To these schedules Mr.
Wilson is expected TO make some short
sr speeches from his train AT intsrme-
diate stops.
Although II In expected that the Pres.
irisnt win devote mnsr Of his attention
TO the peace treaty. probably he VII
touch On the high cost OF living ant
other domestic problems also. II has
been painted ont that much of i1is itin'
erarv lies through the northwest whers
labor and social unrest has been pro.