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stands we're stocked with food to
meet the needs of the throng.
Chief Michael Fogerty's regular
force of 10 policemen is augmented
by several hundred uniformed blue
coats from other Indiana cities. Ell
wood is a metropolis, if only for a
day.
Upon leaving his special train
Mr.. Willkie will stop first at the
high school he attended for SIM
pie greeting to the home folks, be-
fore going to the park, where the
great majority of the visiting throng
will be waiting to witness the noti-
fcation ceremony.
Greeting by Senator Davis.
At the high school Mr.. Willkie is
to be greeted by another old ElWood
boy who succeeded in public life,
Senator Davis. Republican, of
Pennsylvania. After receiving his
early education at Sharon, Pa,
Senator Davis went to work in the
steel and tin plate mills at ElWood.
When young Davis became an Off
Ger of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers of
America, Mr.. WILKES father was
its counsel.
In 1898, when the 1910 Republican
nominee was lad of 6, Senator
Davis was elected to his first public
nff1ce-city clerk of Elwood He
later served as Secretary of Labor
in the cabinets of three Presidents,
before being elected to the Senate
in 1880.
Waiting to hear Mr.. WILKES &C.
ceptance speech at Galloway Park
will be members of Congress and
leaders of the regular Republican
organization from all of the States
and Territories. In their midst also
will be representative of the indie
pendent Willkie clubs that helped to
win him the nomination at Philadel-
phia, and on which Mr. Willkie is
counting heavily 20 rally to his BAN
ner that coveted prize in any ma
tional election-the independent
vote.
$4,000 Seats for Audience.
The official Notification Commit
tee consists of one Republican Off
cial from each State, the District
and the territories. These, with
other party leaders. are to occupy
seats on the platform. Out in front
of the stand $4,000 more seats were
taken by the early arrivals on the
first-come. first-served basis. The
remainder of the crowd extended
back in mass behind these chairs.
Following the invocation, Repre-
sentative Halleck of Indiana. who
made the speech that placed Mr..
Wilkes name before the Philadel-
phia convention, will introduce the
Republican national chairman and
House minority leader. Joseph w.
Martin. jr., of Massachusetts,, who
will deliver the formal address of
notification.
Back in Rushville yesterday, Mr.
Willkie spent the eve of his big day
in quiet simplicity. mingling with
old friends. Early in the morning,
while Mrs. Willkie visited her
mother, Mrs. Phil Wilk. her husband
drove out to inspect the five farms
he owns in surrounding Rush Coun-
ty. covering 1,400 acres. But this
was not unusual, for Mr.. Willkie
had made practice of coming back
to Rushville frequently for that
purpose.
Corn and Hog Farms.
Corn and hog raising is the
principal activity of the farms,
which are managed by Miss Mary
SIeeth, an old family friend.
Later in the morning he strolled
with Mrs. Willkie along the shaded
sidewalk of the street on which
her family lived when she married
Wendell in January. 1918. shortly
before he went to France with the
A. E. F.
The present home of Mrs Willkie S
mother is in the same neighborhood,
Just around the corner, and as she
and Mr.. Willkie walked there to
dinner yesterday old neighbors came
down from their front porches to
shake hands and wish Mr.. Willkie
success.
Str0lIs Around Town.
Mr.. Willkie strolled around Rush
vile last night as unconcerned as
though he had just come home for
a quiet week end instead of to ad-
dress one of the largest crowds to
turn out for notification cere-
mony.
He dropped into the temporary
pressroom in the Lollis Hotel, where