Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-04
WILSON DEPARTS
FROM CAPITAL ON
TOUR IN BEHALF
Of PEACE TREATY
President Starts On His Trip
Which Will Cause Him To
Travel Nearly 10000 Miles
and Deliver 80 Speeches.
TO MAKE FIRST STOP
IN COLUMBUS TODAY
Journey Win Garry the Party
to Pacific Coast, Almost to
Canada on the North and
Mexican Republic on South,

Washington, Sept. s.-President
Wilson left washington tonight for a
country wide speaking trip to tell the
American people first hand of his part
in the peace negotiations and to make
personal 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 twenty-five days de-
parted at Z o'clock The first leg Of
the trip of nearly ten thousand miles
will be completed tomorrow morning
in Columbus. o., where he will make
the first Of his thirty scheduled ad-
dresses.
The president and his party reached
the station at 645 o'clock and were
given an ovation by the crowd. After
escorting Mrs. Wilson to the private
car the president returned TO the plat
form where he chatted with friends
until the time for his train to leave.
Accompanying the president In ad-
dition to Mrs. Wilson, were Joseph T.
Tumulty, his secretary, and Rear Ad-
miral Cary T, Grayson, his physician.
Nearly thirty newspaper correspond
ents also were aboard the train in ad-
dition to the force of official stenog-
raphers and secret servicemen'
The trip. perhaps the most arduous
ever undertaken by president, will
carry MIR. Wilson and his party as far
west as the Pacific coast, almost TO
the Canadian border on the north and
almost to Mexico on the south. He
will speak in every state west of the
Mississippi except four, and will make
up for the omission of these speeches
in Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
To Make short Stops.
Although the detailed schedule was
held in confidence in the interest of
safety to the presidential train, 1t is
understood that most OF the stops will
be only for three or four hours
In Des Moines Seattle, Los Angeles
and Louisville, however, where Sun
day stops are made, the president will
have opportunity for brief respites. In
Seattle he will review the Pacific fleet.
The speech making schedule is a
vigorous one from the start. After
his address at Columbus tomorrow,
Mr.. Wilson will go to Indianapolis in
time for an evening mass meeting.
Then he will continue westward reach
lnS DeS MOlUeS od suiudy Api thS WYNN
end.
The following week will take him
far into the west by the northern
route, with speeches at Omaha, Sioux
Falls, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Bis
marck, Billings, Helena, Coeur
d'Alene, Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle.
AFTER that will come Portland. San
Francisco, San Diego. Los Angeles,
Reno, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Dem
yer. Pueblo, Wichita, Oklahoma City,
Little Rock, Memphis and Louisville.
The return to Washington will be on
September 30,
In addition to these scheduled ad-
dresses, Mr. Wilson is expected to
make some shorter speeches from his
train at intermediate stops.
Although 1t is expected that the
president will devote most of his at
tention to the peace treaty, he prob
ably will also touch on the high cost
of living and other domestic problems.
1t has been pointed out that much
of his itinerary lies through the north
west where labor and social unrest has
been pronounced.