From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 2, 1916:

• “Almost all Lawrence gathered at the Santa Fe station this morning to see President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson in the few minutes that their train stopped here enroute to Topeka…. President Wilson attempted no speech and he made one not a third of the crowd gathered on the platform at the station and on the right-of-way could have heard. Braving frosted ears and the cold that pierced to the marrow, a crowd gathered at the station…. The train came into Lawrence several minutes late, but the crowd hung on. There was a stamping of feet as the cold began to make itself felt, but folks had come to see a president and they stayed. When the train had felt its way to the station between two walls of humanity that lined the track, a burst of applause told the main body of the crowd that President Wilson had appeared on the rear platform of the last car. There was a rush for the back end of the train, but hundreds of spectators could not even get a glimpse of President and Mrs. Wilson until the train started to pull out of the station…. A rolling ‘Rock! Chalk!’ from the University students greeted the President and Mrs. Wilson as they stepped out on the rear platform. Pupils by hundreds from the grade schools waved flags and cheered. The Haskell band was playing. ‘Altogether, this is the noisiest crowd that has greeted the President on his trip,’ said a press correspondent on the President’s train…. As early as 8:30 o’clock the crowds started for the station and from that time until the train arrived, Seventh street from Massachusetts east to the station was filled from sidewalk to sidewalk with a hurrying throng which certainly numbered more than half the population of the town. The hope was expressed on every hand that the President would have time while in Lawrence to give a few minutes’ serious talk on the subject of preparedness. Unquestionably the crowd wished to give earnest attention to the subject which has brought the nation’s chief executive to Kansas and the west. But the train was behind schedule when it reached Lawrence and the stop here was only a few minutes long. There was not time even for the crowd to place itself advantageously to hear an address if one had been attempted.”
• “President Wilson reached Topeka, the turning point of his middle western tour, at 10:10 today. He was greeted with a salute of twenty-one guns and escorted by state troops through the principal streets of the city on his way to the residence of Governor Capper, whose guest he was until 1 o’clock, when he addressed an audience in the auditorium. The President and Mrs. Wilson rode over snow-packed streets in zero weather in open automobiles. A crowd cheered them at the station but most of the city’s 50,000 population lined the sidewalks along his way to the governor’s residence…. At the last moment Mr. Wilson consented to receive a delegation of suffragists at Governor Capper’s home. They promised not to detain him more than five minutes. They asked his endorsement of a constitutional amendment enfranchising women…. Governor Capper, introducing the President to the 6,000 persons gathered in the municipal auditorium, praised him for keeping the United States out of war, and added that ‘many of us are not in accord with the program of vast armament.’ He continued, ‘we welcome the fullest discussion…. We are not a craven people. We are deeply and intensely patriotic. We are not afraid to fight if we must, but we hope that necessity will never more arise and we pray we shall not be led into temptation.’… The President declared he knew the people of Kansas wanted to know the facts before taking action.”