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Show -" ' '" ',. .. WMsMsssBsssjgi A MAN WHO UNDER-STANDS UNDER-STANDS THE WEST The Presidential contest Is not going go-ing to be on party lines but will revolve re-volve about the difference In eastern east-ern and western Ideals. In every great national crisis the eyes of the people havo turned to a man of administrative and executive ability from the west. At tho beginning of the Civil war tho cast and south were in tho saddlo A western president and western generals restored the nation. The man of the west stalds for action ac-tion nnd not for theories nor (or mere representation of wealth In national na-tional .affairs. It Is In the west that true American Ameri-can push; enterprise and ludomitablo spirit of'dolng things still prevails. We cannot dissociate our country from the part it took In the great ! European war nor abandon our coun- Itry to a spineless policy, Thero Is Tine candidate who fills ,tho Imagination of the American (peoplo from the standpoint of virile wetsern- Americanism. That candidate Is General Leinard Wood, trained and drilled in active administrative functions, a man tear less and quick to act. He took his army rank as surgeou but he never went Into a campaign that he did not demand to be placol In active duty at the front. I Fighting tho Apaches on tho Mexl- (can border, In the Spanish war, and In the Philippines ho did not haunt the hospitals but fought. In civilian training c-imps, at (Camp Funston in Cuba, In Portti Ilico, at, Manilla, he held no offleo sinecures but tackled hard jobs, Everywhere he showed little fo- Bpect for red tape but great resprct I for securing results, whether It w.s I laying sewers or slaying fevers. I That kind of a president, without 1 show of arms or rattling ot swords, I will command respect ot all powers. I As an Italian fighter, an official, a soldier, an organizer, an admlnls- 'j ,trator, a patriot, or a statesman,, he 1 I v'Tf( Is sound and clean and can stand thoVnt; piercing seatchllght of the Xtntrl.'an - Ideal. ' His boyhood home Is typical ot Mb : character Cape Cod a dotMed-up arm sticking out Into the Atlantic, with Ienched fist ready for action. As an army officer his formula for success was! "Do It and don't lalk about It." At army hcndiiuartcrs i Washington he was always a thorn In the side of Inefficiency and chaos and tangle of sec-nothing do-nothing. In 1915-16 whnt little was done In preparation for tho European war was largely due to the Incessant demands de-mands of General Wood. k His work In establishing local government gov-ernment and sanitation of cities In the West Indies, In our oriental' territory ter-ritory and at home lias stood. As It was western governors wlio assumed responsibility in the rcccu: qcal strike ,a western president would assume responsibility In the affair of the world when American Interests required action. |