Cary T. Grayson Diary

Cary T. Grayson Diary

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

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1919 September 22

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

English

MONDAY, The first stop of the day came at Sacramento, where a crowd of 15,000 people had gathered in the train-shed to greet the President as he passed through. Assenting to the urgent entreaties of a number of business men of the city, the President agreed to make a five-minute talk from the rear platform of the MAYFLOWER. The crowd was most enthusiastic in its welcome, and it required the utmost effort to keep some of them who wanted to grasp his hand from actually injuring him in their enthusiasm.The President made a very brief talk, emphasizing the fact that the great majority of those he saw at the station and along the roadside were children, and he repeated his hope that the Treaty would be ratified so that the necessity of sacrificing these children at the altar of war would be removed. Leaving Sacramento the train proceeded to Reno, Nevada, which was reached at 8:00 o’clock that night. In Renothe President was greeted by a typical mining crowd and his welcome was all that could be desired. He spoke in a theatre which had been fitted up so that his voice was carried to all of the other theatres in the city, the result being that he talked to five audiences instead of one, although he did not know that until after he had concluded his address. The President reverted at Reno back to his original strictures on radicalism, and also emphasized again the justice of the Shantung pact. The stay in Reno was cut short and he was there for only two hours. At 10:00 o’clock that night the party started for Salt Lake City.

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