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Show v WILL BE MAN WHO UNDER UN-DER STANDS THE WEST The Presidential contest is not going go-ing to be on party lines but will revolve re-volve about the differences in eastern east-ern and western ideals. 'At the beginning of the civil war. the east and south were in the saddle A western President and western gen orals restored the nation. The man of the west stands for action and not. for theories nor for mere representation of wealth in national na-tional affairs. It is in the west that true American Ameri-can push, enterprise and indomitable spirit of doing things still prevails. We cannot dissociate our country I'rom the part it took in the giaat European War nor abandon our country to a spineless policy. There is one candidate, who Withe Wi-the imagination of the American people peo-ple from the standpoint of virile v. es tern Americanism. That candidate is General Leonard Wood, trained and drilled in active adiniui.-trt ive functions, a man fearless fear-less and quick to act. lie toolc his army rank as surgeon but he never went into a campaign that he did not demand to he placed in ac-i ive duty at the front. Fighting the Apaches on the Mex ban boarder in the Spanish Ameri-l'"t Ameri-l'"t B bonier, in the Spanish Arneri-!:d Arneri-!:d not haunt the hospitals but tough tou-gh I. ' In civilian training camps, at Unrip I'unslon, in Cuba, in Porto Kico. at Fi aiiilla. he held no office sinecures, but tackled hard jobs. Everywhere he showed little res- I.,-... I'.v '(t ln. irroo. roonal '"or scouring results, whether it was l iving .--ewers or slaying fevers. That kind of President, without show of arms or wrattling of swords, wi'd command respect of all powers. As a li Indian fighter, an official, a --tl : i'-r an orator an administrator, a ra-riot, and a statesman, he is !! 1 a'.'d clean an(l can stand the a'.----iff- :-earc'.'':ight of the American ideal. Ilis boyhood home is typical. of his v. r;.,.-.r. Cine fod. a doubled-up r . ..::.!. :itr out into the Atlantic '.'i .:!..'.:.'.! fist ready for action. As an army oliicer his formula for s ( was: "Do it and don't talk fheut it." At army headquarters in W- hi:-," ton In- was always a thorn the :-!':.' cf inefficiency, and the j -i- -. : jangle of soc-ii o t h i n g, do- I 110'hing. I if v-r.s western governors who ; ;i -iovo,! ro.-pousihility in the recent coal ;!!!,. western President i wo'ild as-i'.iiie responsibilities in the a'ffti-j of "'c world when American interests required action. |