The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-12
COOLIDGE KNOWN
THROUGH NATION
Gains Nations Esteem
Quickly Says Speaker
Gillett.

CHICAGO, June 11.-Characteriz
Ing Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts as a man who believes that
obedience to law is liberty and that
this Is government OF laws and nor
of men, Congressman Frederick II
Gillett Of Massachusetts placed the
name of the governor on his state in
nomination for the presidency at tho
republican national convention here
today.
Speaker Gillett told the republican
delegates that the placing of such a
man as Governor Coolidge in the
presidential chair would clear the
murky atmosphere of Washington
like a bracing northern breeze. "He
is as patient as Lincoln" Congress.
man Gillett said, silent as Grant 4
diplomatic as Mckinley. with the poy
litical instinct OF Roosevelt.
Congressman Gilletts speech fol-
lows
IA year ago hardly a man outside
OF New England knew who was gov
ernor OF Massachusetts. Today every
man ana woman IN this vast audi
ence. every lover OF ordered liberty
in the United States, knows and re-
Joys that the governor of Massachu-
SOUS lS Gavin COoIldBc.
OppOrtunity-whiCh knocks once
at every mans door--camc to him
and found him waiting her summons,
calm, and courageous, rCsolute to do
his duty though the heavens fall.
And he did 1t SO well, he met his
great opportunity with so masterful
spirit as to send q thrill of admira-
tion through every community in the
/ land. and every honest man felt safer
because there was such n governor
as Coolidge.
Is Right Type
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 SEA
curity, that faith In our republican
institutions which when once aroused
Is overpowering and irresistible. He
is supported by no special class or
interest. but he attracts all those who
/ believe that obedience to law is lib
erty, who wish this to be "a govern
ment of laws and not Of men,.
Just to do his duty well has been
his life's characteristic. None has
been too small for his painstaking,
conscientious care; none has arisen
too large for his ability or his cour-
age. | believe there is no burden of
honor you can place on him of which
he is not worthy.
"a boyhood on a lonely farm in
Vermont bred him in industry. fru-
gality, self-reliance. The granite
hills seemed to have moulded his
grave. indomitable character. Fam
lily selfdenial gave him a college ed
ucation at Amherst to broaden his
native talents. Then he practiced
law. But his neighbors soon recog-
nized the value of this quiet, saga
cious man, and drafted him into the
public service, and he glided from
one useul station to another till he
| reached the highest office OF our
| state. He is not snowy or spectacu-
| lar. but he never disappoints, The
| limelight attracts him less than the
midnight oil. No audience ever fails
to listen to his weighty sentences and
when they go away they vote as he
| has talked. A poor man, living in
the most frugal simplicity, he always
had the confidence and support of
the working people, yet rich and
poor are to him alike equal before
the law. He never crooks the preg-
nant hinges Of the knee before pre-
tentiaNs power, nor stiffens his neck
in pride before lowly weakness; but
he holds the even tenor OF his up
right way, following the pole-star OF
duty.
Would BE Rcstful Change
Would IL not be restful change
to see such man in the white house
today? His straight forward person.
ality would clear the murky atmo-
sphere OF Washington like a bracinS
northern breeze. We have been fed
| long enough on glittering rhetoric
and eXtravagant novelties and rain
bow-tinted dreams. We need an era
of hard sense and old freedom. We
need to reinvigorate the homely, or
derby virtues which have made
America great.
II have not heard word OF depre-
citation for the Splendid man whose
names have been put in nomination.
/ can follow any one Of these Veter-
ans With enthusiasm and confidence.
| But 1t is to the glory OF the repubhc-
an party that there constantly
emerge from the ranks young men
able to bear forward our banner TO
new glory. Such a man as our gov
ernor. He is patient as Lincoln, ST.
lent as Grant, diplomatic as Mckln-
ley, with the political instinct "
| Roosevelt. His character is as firm
as the mountain of his native state.
Like them his head is above the
clouds and he stands mistaken amid
the tumult and the storm.
II nominate for president, Calvin
| ~ %