Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-08-09
HE JOINS CHIEF
IN URGENT PLEA
FOR LEAGUE ALSO
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bled crowd, spoke, in part, as follows:
! / accept the nomination for the Of
flee Of vice president with humblenCSs
and with a deep wish to give to our
beloved country the best that is in me-
No one could receive higher privil-
eye or opportunity than to be thus as
sGciated with men and ideals which l
am confident will soon receive the
support of the majority OF our citizens.
Two great problems will confront
the next administration, our relations
with the world and the pressing need
Of organized progress at home The
latter includes a SystcmatiZed and in
tensfied development of our resources
and progressive betterment of our
citizenship. These matters will re-
quile the guiding hand of Il president
who can see his country above his
party, and who. having Il clear vision
of things as they are, has also the i'll
dependence. courage and skill to guide
should be without Swerving one foot
step at the dictation Of narrow parti-
sans who whisper party" or selfish
| interests that murmur 'profitS.'
In our world problems we must
either shut our eyes, sell Our newly
| built merchant marine to more far
seeing foreign powers, crush utterly
by embargo and harassing legislation
our foreign Trade. close our ports and
build an impregnable wall of costly
ornaments and live. as the Orient
used to live. hermit nation. dream
ing of the past or. we must open our
eyes and see that modern civilization
has become so complex and the lives of
civilized men 50 interviewer with the
| lives OF other men in other countries
as TO make il impossible TO be in this
world and not Of il. We must see
that it is impossible to avoid except
by mOnaStic Sec!uSion those honorable
and intimate foreign relations which
the fearful hearted shudderingly mis-
call by that Devils catchword Inter
national Complications"
! Cox Needed as Leader.
AS for our home problem, we have
been awakened by this war into Il
startled realization of the archaic
shortcomings of our governmental ma
chinery and of the need for the kind
of reorganization which only Il clear
thinking business man. experienced in
the technicaltieS of governmental pro
ccdurc can carry ont. Such Il man we
have. One who has so successfully re-
formed the business management of
his own great state is obviously capa-
BILE of doing greater things. This is no
time to experiment with men who be-
lieye that their party can do no wrong
and that what is good for the selfish
interests of Il political party is OF
necessity good for the nation rs well.
as Il citizen believe that this year
we should choose as president Il proved
executive. We need to do things: not
to talk about them.
| Even as the nation entered the war
| for an ideal. so it has emerged from
! the war with the determination that
the ideal shall not die. 1t is idle to
pretend that tic war declaration of
defence. or that the object of our par
| ticipation was soley to defeat the mil
| itary power of the central nations of
| Europe. We knew them as IL nation.
even AZ we know today, that success
on land and sea could he hut half a
| victory The other half is not won
yet. TO the cry of the French at Yer
dun: They shall not pass the cheer
of our own men in the Ar%onne I'VE
shall 20 through"--we must add this
1T shall not occur again" This is the
positive declaration of our own wills:
that the world shall he saved from Il
repctition of this crime. 70 this end
the Democratic party offers Il treaty
Of peace. which. to make il II real
treaty for Il real peace must include
IA League of Nations: because this
peace treaty. ii oar best and hravcSt
are not to have died in vain. must he
no thinly disguised armis;icr devised
by cynical statesmen To mask their
preparations for ii renewal of greed
inspired canquestS later ON. Peace
must mean peace that will last.
Sit Witt, Family CT Nations.
Today we are offered Il seat 1T the
table of the family of nations To the
end that smaller peoples may be truly
safe To work out their own destiny. {"
the end that the sword shall not follow
on the heels Of the merchant. To the
end that the burden of increasing
armies and nayicS shall he lifted from
the shoulders ct Il world already stag
gerng under the weight of taxation.
We shall take that place. say 50
c,;il,Se | have faiih--faith that this |