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Show No one need quoto any of tile picturesque, pic-turesque, expletives whicli General Duwi'S occasionally uses to prove that there is Ml. my or sting and force in the lail of the ticket the Republican Re-publican convention finally complet-ed complet-ed by the iimiiinu, ion of the virile, able, upright and downright. fighting fight-ing son of Ohio it chose for Calvin ('olllilge's running mate. The country does not need an introduction in-troduction to Charles (1. Dawes, lie is nol in any sense the unknown (liiantily. the man who has to be studied and learned, that has often served to fill out a national ilicket. lie has scored so heavily as a banker, a master of Ilnance, a solver of international inter-national problems of taxation and war reparations, that the whole counf'ry knows him, but. few of his countrymen know how in many ways and how in many places he has proved prov-ed his ability. Charles Dawes was a hustler from the beginning. He wnsi gradunUd from Marietta college when he was nineteen, and from the Cincinnati law school at ttwonty-ono. For seven years, as a young man, he practiced law in Lincoln, Neb., the city Bryan put o ntho map, politically speaking, put on the map. politically speaking, been Interested in gas companies bnnks and government service. His business connections took him to SeatHo .at times, and Into Wisconsin, but he's been a bank president In Chicago for the last twenty-five years and more. It is not without reason that the western states, beyond the Mississippi, Mississ-ippi, have felt so friendly to General Dawes, because be knows the country, coun-try, all the way to the Pacific, as an able man learns places where he has business interests. The seven years in Nebraska must not be forgotten. And Charles G. Dawes has the nation wide outlook which conies from public pub-lic service in the national capital, of-the of-the kind which is far more business than political. He was comptroller of the I'nited States treasury from 1S97 to 1!)02, and in the world war his extremely efficient and valuable work for his country was of the broadest kind. He went to France as a lieu'tenant colonel col-onel of railway engineers. Before the armistice he was a brigadier general. He quickly rose to be chairman of the general purchasing board of the American expeditionary forces and general purchasing agent. Later he became a member of the purchasing j board of the allied armies, displaying; great energy and ability. General Dawes returned to the United States in the summer of 1919, resigning from the army to go back to Chicago. But in 1921 he was virtually vir-tually drafted again to serve the nn-lon, nn-lon, as the director of the federal budget system which a Republican congress had created and the late President Harding was organizing and setting in motion. There the usual us-ual Dawes energy and enthusiasm for a big task were much in evidence and the work done de-serves the praise It won. far and wide. Yet the crowning achievement of Charles G. Paweis. to this hour. ha. been his work for the peace, security secur-ity and prosperity of the world, in playing the great part given hira in devising a practical, acceptable, plan for the settlement of the vexed and critical German reparations problem. V which had been the despair of the ablest statesmen in Europe. Only a little while ago General Dawes came home, bearing modestly the honors and the pmise showered upon him for his rpmarknb'e :ucres in a mostj difficult field of endeavor and achl-i evemcnt. vital to the welfare of the world. j Here is a career which yokes up well with 'he very different and com-j paratlvely quiet life of Calvin Cool- idge. before the President was called to his present often. Here is a personality per-sonality which mnkes a striking con-, trast. in some respects, with that of the reticent, careful Yankee nt head of the Republican ticket. j tiut the 1 wo men balance well. They have much iu common. They are both hard workers, both men of I action who go through to the end of the tasks they strt. themselves. They have courage in abundance, tenacity of purpose, a high sense of their responsibilities res-ponsibilities and obligations. And both of them get results. They are winners, and they will win together next November. In the campaign the President must go quietly about his official duties, but his running mate will be under no such ra-.traint He can cut loose in his usual picturesque and vivid style, on the stump, and long before election day the country will realize that the second pbee on the winning t'eket has Its full share of great ability abil-ity and masterful leadership, especially espec-ially In the immensely Important field ol business and constructive finance. |