Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-11
WOODS NAME Is
FIRST PRESENTED
Forty Minutes Demon
stration on Floor By
His Forces
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no burden upon the back of the Re
publiean party. No 100000 angels
have been lowering over him; no $25,-
600 tin from the friendly hand of a
Standard Oil king has found its way
into his political treasury; and not a
pennv from his private purse has been
stalled in the gluey pocket of show
me- politician"
Connecticut yielded to Massachu-
setts and Speaker Gillette nominated
Governor Coolidge.
Calls Coolidge The Man
Characterizing Governor Calvin
Coolidge, of Massachusetts,, as a man
who believes that obedience to law
is liberty and that this is govern
ment of laws and not of men. Con-
oressman Frederick H. GilIett, of
Massachusetts, placed the name OF
the governor of his state IN nomna-
tion.
Speaker Gillett told the Republican
delegates that the placing Of such
man as Governor Coolidge IN the pres
jdential chair would clear the murky
atmosphere of Washington like bra
cing northern breeze. "He is as pa
tient as Lincoln" Congressman Gil
lett said, silent as Grant, diplomatic
as Mckinley, with the political IN
stinct of Roosevelt
Congressman Gillett said in part
"a year ago hardly a man outside
of New England knew who was gov
ernor Of Massachusetts. Today every
man and woman in this vast audience,
every lover of ordered liberty in the
United States, knows and rejoices
that the governor of Massachusetts, is
Calvin Coolidge.
"0pportunity-whic knocks once
at every mans door-came to him
and found him waiting for her sum-
mons, calm, courageous, resolute to
do his duty though the heavens fall.
And he did it so well, he met his
great opportunity with so masterful a
spirit as to send thrill of admiration
through every community in the land
and every honest man felt safer be-
cause there was such governor as
Coolidge.
isn't that the type of man you
want for president today? Nominate
him and you rally behind him that
underlying devotion to our public Sc
curity that faith in our Republican
institutions that which when once
aroused is overpowering and ire
sistable. He is supported by no special
class or interest, but he attracts all
those who believe that obedience to
law is liberty, who wish this to be "a
government of laws and not of men,"
Florida yielded to North Carolina
and former Senator Butler nominat-
ed Judge Pritchard.
Harding's Name Submitted
Assailing the present administra-
tion as an oligarchy in which the few
rule the many and telling his hearers
that the country faces problem more
serious than those faced by Washing
ton or Lincoln, Frank B. Willis, for
mer governor of Ohio placed the
name Of Senator Warren G. Harding
in nomination.
Former Governor Willis recited
briefly Senator Harding's record in
the Senate and promised that if nom
mated he would be elected.
He charged that production had
been hampered by the so-called gov
ernment regulations and announced
that the Republican party had been
called upon to rescue the country and
save American institutions. Mr.. vii
lis SAID. among other things:
William Mckinley was orna+
president because he understood the
viewpoint of congress and knew how
TO cooperate with the legislative de-.
partment of the government. We have
mad enough one-man government #
is time to resume the functions of
government as set forth by the consfi-
tutlon. We dc not need a dictator an
autJocrat to give orders. The country
calls, rather, for a man of conrage
polse and decision, who while re-,
serving to himself the right to direct
cne general course of the government
- not so cock-sure of his infalIibilitv
as to refuse to hear the advice If
otner men Of large ability and wide