Show I KANSAS GOVERNOR PRAISES WOOD AS ASMAN MAN OF BUSINESS V Declares Generals General's Record Makes l Hi Him Ideal Man lan Manfor for President Chicago Juno 11 Described U. Described as ns the thc outstanding candidate In tho the minds of tho the whole people MaJ j. Gen Gon Leonard Wood was waH formally nominated toda today by Go Gov Go Henr Henry J. J Allen of Kansas for forthe forthe the thc Republican presidential nomina nomina- tion I A A plain plains blunt man with a n blunt belief bellet In facts Governor Allen said Id Idof of General Wood he is toda today the best known American No man in America has boon boen given so man many constructive things to do In Inthis Inthis this generation an and no rio one denies that whatever ho has undertaken he has hns done dono superlatively well An unexpected period of ot confusion has come upon us In the aftermath o otho of tho reat war Old ways are aro lost and leadership he hesitant and Indecisive drifts upon an nn uncharted sea 1 Under the weak hands of a timorous timorOUS timorous timor timor- ous government the social disorders and class caught from Crom the tho world struggle have e grown to alarmIng alarm- alarm In lug Ing proportions The unchecked encroachment of off sinister gr greed fd tho the appalling waste of oC public mone money the Immoral pandering to class Interest and class prejudice hare havo brought us to a point where tho the nation demands and the world expects from rom this great council a leader chosen out of oC the great need an and not through th the tho cunning of or political expediency In seeking for tor the tho initiative and the prophetic wisdom to guide ulde us Inan in itt inan an hour that must be wholly construe construe- tive the we are arc fortunate In a candidate whose those record reveals the qualities needed for the tho task It is not nece necessary sary to ask for as assurances assurances as- as from Crom General Wood There Thero is the witness of at his service I You Xou ask for a n business man We e present to you a record of four Cour years as governor go of Cuba a record which gained him international fame as the tho most successful civil administrator tho the country has known Leonard Woods Wood's services In Cuba constitute a page pase of I history which records s the cleanest and most unselfish thing thing- ono one nation ever did for a need needy people Chosen to work worl workout workout out the benevolent policy of or McKInley toward the thc people of tho the Island for whom we SC had sacrificed our sons heas he ho was waR given a free hand I t thA hn at 1 f business capacity ty It i ivas u something more than the work of a business man It was vas the work of ot a statesman who had hall not narrowed his vision to the pur purely h business life It was tho tim accomplishment accomplishment ac ac- ac- ac of or a great national or or- ganzer A President must be a business man and more lIe Ho must be bo a n statesman Ho must have havo a. a broad view of the Internal in In- In situation He Ho must know politics poli poli- tics for Cor politics is what shat gives us our government bo It good or bad Government Government Government Govern Govern- I ment is no better titan than its politics and to improve e tho the one you OU must improve e the tho otherA otherA otherA other A President must bo be able to Interpret interpret inter Inter- pret the shadow of at coming coining events We Vo do 10 not need to speculate concerning I Leonard LeoT Woods Wood's foresight When the great war broke upon the I consciousness of the American people with a n terrific shock It found that Leonard Wood had been preparing We e I heard from him no platitudes about a million men springing to arms over o nl night hl On his own Initiative he lI hed the tho Plattsburg training camp I The Tho Plattsburgh training camps cre the tho first Ir t lino line of tho the national de defense do- do and avo to the thousands of at magnificent young American men who volunteered a new definition of loy loy- alty a now opportunity for service anew a a. anew new vision of of- their national obliga obliga- tion Wo 0 saw him accepting whatever task was given Into his hands with the cheerful obedience to those who submerge submerge sub sub- merge eel self In service In our state sUb sUb-I where he trained many of our splendid young men inspiring them with his spirit fashioning them then Into the division tho the people witnessed his work with such pride that when the governor O of our state my honored predecessor made him by proclamation a citizen of Kansas every other citizen applauded We Ve watched him go away to the point of or embark embarkation and then thon at the tho last moment we read with tion that his great desire to take his division to tho the field was not to be granted This man was no Not ot otan an hour was lost in sulking Not a ord word was wasted in criticism Not an Instant spent in mourning over his personal disappointment We see sec him hint coming back to train another division we can can ho said raid well make mako It even even be better ter than the on ons onA with which I had hoped to serve In France No o man can know him without recognizing rec tee the liberality of at his mind his openness to conviction As Root once said of ot him lIe Ho I is hospitable to advice As s President ho will not seek to create creato for himself a neutral b back background k- k ground round out of ot mediocre man The Tho nation na na- na tion will have hays that to which tho the people are entitled 1 In it its councils councils the tho united brain power of real leaders Tho The sum total of preferential expressions ex ex- cx- cx marks him as aa the outstanding ing candidate In the minds of ot the whole people There isn't an American worthy to be bo here hore who does not believe In the future futuro leadership of ot this country Well We'll have that leadership when we wo ar art are worthy and that will not depend upon an any international society wo we may Join joJn It will depend upon the tho success which wo we make mako of the experiment experiment ment meat of at human government here hero ana ann to that call the Instinct of ot every man must rise With full appreciation of ot the chal chat challenge lenge of ot tho hour I J present tho the namo name of or the tho man who fits tits the hours hours- Leonard Wood r I |