On this day in 1919 Wyoming's newspapers reported on President Wilson's speech in Cheyenne the day prior. They commented, largely accurately, on it as well.
One of the Cheyenne papers reported the Cheyenne crowed as "cordial". But that was perhaps a politic way of saying polite yet reserved. The other paper was likely more on the mark when it noted that a large crowd had gathered, but that crowd hadn't reacted with enthusiasm for Wilson's speech.
It would be worth noting that Cheyenne was the home of Wyoming Senator F. E. Warren, who was a prominent Republican Senator. Wilson was, therefore, campaigning on hostile ground to a degree.
One Cheyenne paper noted that the President was weary. He was.
From Cheyenne he went on to Pueblo Colorado. During a speech there, he collapsed. His speaking tour was over and the train commenced back to Washington D. C. with a little bit of a secret revealed. The President was not a well man.
Boarding a train elsewhere, German citizens who had been interned in the United States during the war were being sent home. Sent home with a new set of clothes from the looks of it.
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