Cary T. Grayson Diary

Cary T. Grayson Diary

Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938

WWP17224

1919 September 14

Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia

English

SUNDAY, After the breakfast the President and Mrs. Wilson and myself attended services in the Presbyterian Church here. For the first time in my experience I witnessed a church service interrupted while the congregation applauded a visitor. As the President entered, the audience applauded him, and they applauded him again on his departure from the sacred edifice. The fact that the Pacific Northwest was solidly for the policies that President Wilson advocated was demonstrated not only in the church but at every point where the President appeared in public during his stay in Seattle. Returning to the hotel for luncheon, the President conferred with the labor leaders in the afternoon. He told them very frankly that as far as he was considered he would not countenance anything that savored of violence and repeated to them in substance what he had already said on this subject in public. After the conference with the labor people, the President met the members of the Seattle reception committee and shook hands with them, telling them how much he appreciated the warmth of his welcome in the Puget Sound City. The party left Seattle at 10:00 o’clock that night en route to Portland.

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