The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-05
WESTERN TOUR
AT BEGINNING
President Finds Situation in
Missouri Without Exact
Parallel.
QUESTION NOT POLITICAL
In Talks From His Car, Wilson
Emphasizes That He Ap-
peals as American.

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Emphasizes That He Ap-
peals as American.
st. Louis, Sept. 5.-President Will
son reached today the real beginning
Of his western speaking tour in tn,
interest of the peace treaty. the star
of his long swing around the circlt
Of states west of the Mississippi.
Having sounded the keynote of hi.
appeal in addresses yesterday at Co.
lumbus and Indianapolis, Mr.. Wilson
planned to take a brief respite from
speech making today oefore plunging
into the arduous program that viii
carry him into virtually uvsry west.
ern state. Arriving In st. Louis
I early this morning, he arranged t.
sleep late on his special train ant
then to keep most of the day free.
Early in the afternoon, owever HI
was to attend a luncheon at down
town hotel, where 1t was expected he
would make brief talk on the treaty
and in the evening he was to speak
at the Coliseum. where in 1916 he
was renominated for the presidency
A part Of the days program was q
forenoon automobile ride through tffe
principal streets of the city from his
train to the hotel. In Missouri the
president found a situation as re-
CARDS ratification of the peace treaty
without an exact parallel in any other
state. In the treaty-ratifying body
at Washington the state is repre-
Oanfnd h., Ganofnr pan1 "a nylv
democratic senator who has taken q
definite stand. for the treaty's rejec-
ton. and Senator Spencer, one of the
republican senators who have de-
clared themselves generally friendly
to It and have agreed on a set OF
reservations as a basis for its ac-
ceptance.
Speaks in Kansas City Saturday.
In st. Louis, Senator Reed recently
made an address bitterly assailing
the treaty, and within the next few
weeks Senator Johnson, of California,
republican member of the foreign
relations committee, and others, are
expected to address opposition meet
ings here. In addition to his address
here tonight, the president is to make
one address in Kansas City tomor-
row.
Members Of tho presidents party
do not expect him, however, to make
any direct reference to the political
fe atures of the situation in Missouri.
In a brief talk from his car at Rich
mond, Ind, yesterday, he made it
clear that he does not consider the
question a political one in any re-
speot, saying he did not appeal for
the treaty as a democrat but as an
American.
In his keynote addresses yesterday
the president also made plain his in
tention to take up various features of
the treaty in an explanatory way dur
ing the trip and to refrain from en-
gaging in a debate about the issues
raised in public discussion of the
treaty heretofore. He is not expected
by his advisers to answer specifically
any of the senate speeches against
it, but takes the position that his
strongest argument is an explanation
to the people of what the treaty con-
tains.
To the league Of nations the labor
section, the provision for self deter
for various territories in
Europe and the reparation system
established by the treaty, he attaches
particular Importance. He character
lied the league yesterday as meaning
that American soldiers would not
again have to cross the seas, and the
labor section as constituting a magma
charta for labor the world over.
FIGHTING TEMPER APPARENT.
The fighting temper of the presr
L.
parent in both his addresses yester-
day. Within three minutes after he
began the first of them at Columbus,
he had warmed up to his task and
was putting his ide as into blunt SEN
fences, punctuated by vigorous ges-
lures. He was interrupted repeatedly
by applause and several times by
cheers.
At Indianapolis, the president
called on the opponents Of the cove
nant to produce a plan to secure the
peace of the world, if not willing to
accept the league of nations. "lf it is
,ot to be this arrangement" he said,
what arrangement do you suggest /
o secure the peace of the world? 1t
S a case of put up or shut up. If
he gentlemen who don't like what
vas done in Paris think they can do
better. I beg that they will |
:old their convention soon, and do it
low."
Talked at Small Towns.
Besides bis two principal addresses J
Mr. Wilson talked briefly to crowds |
hat gathered around his car during |
hort stops at several small cities in |
ohio and Indiana. Mrs. Wilson, who |
at on the platform at the two sched- |
lled meetings, also stood beside the |
president when he appeared at the
shorter stops. In three places the |
.rowds asked for her, and the presi.
lent smiling presented her with the
emark that she was better to look |
It than himself.
The president headed a parade
through the central thtroughfares of |
he city at $3.50 o'clock this morning
-I-'"s piven an ovation. When he
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