The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-12
WOOD HAS FACED COMPLEX AND
DIFFICULT PROBLEMS OFTEN
AND ALWAYS SHOWED JUDGE.
MENT, TACT, ENERGY AND
FIRMNEss.
is NOT CONTROLLED BY
FINANCIAL BOSSES
What Roosevelt Was TO the People
Wood New Represents Through
His Long Years Of Executive and
Administrative Experience.

General Wood is that there Is a spon-
taneous movement for him over the
country, and that he is the only aspir-
ant among the republicans about
whom this can be said. Two reasons
are given for this: First. because OF
his record as a soldier and admins
traitor; second. that because Of his
close association with Theodore
Roosevelt the following Of the late
leader is rallying to him. Other can.
didates will have to hold up their or
CARNATIONS outside OF their own states
largely on appeals Of ambition or self
interest Of political managers, while
General Wood has, II is asserted, the
natural nucleus OF such ar o%rganiza-
ton in the officers and privates who
formerly served with him. Places
where the Wood strength will show
itself notably are given as New Eng.
land, where he was born and educat-
ed, being a native of New Hampshire
and a graduate of Harvard; in New
York, where he started the Platts-
burg officers training schools; in
Kansas and Oklahoma, On account OF
the members Of the two divisions from
these states who were trained at
Camp Funston; and in the southwest,
where's former members OF the Rough
Riders are influential and prominent:
in the west generally on account OF
the strong Roosevelt sentiment there.
The fact that the South Dakota re-
publican convention endorsed General
Wood ia pointed out as an Illustration.
| All these elements of Wood strength
are to be drawn together in a National
General Wood League, and through
them the claims of General Wood set
before the people In an aggressive
campaign.
There is no doubt the achievements
of an administrator OF high ability
are there to build upon. They reach
far back in his career. He was born
in 1860 at Winchester, N. Fl. In 1884
department OF Harvard, and two years
later entered the United States army
as an assistant surgeon. In 1885. In
the campaign against the Apaches in
the West, his conduct as a medical
| and line officer won for him the Cen
gressional Medal OF Honor. The
Spanish American war gave him his
first great opportunity, first as a sol.
lier as colonel of the Rough Riders
and then as administrator as Military
| Governor OF Cuba in the %reconstruc.
| tion period following the war and
proceeding the transfer OF Cuba to the
| Cuban republic. He served in this
position from 1899 until 1902 Here
he had 20 face complex and difficult
problems. requiring grasp, judgement,
energy. tact. and firmness, and In
solving these problems he revealed
qualities which showed him to be a
man OF larger calibre than that OF an
lble soldier. From 1910 until 1914
General Wood served as Chief OF
staff Then. following his transfer
to the post OF commander OF the De.
partment Of the East, his name was
associated with a new work. He be.
came the champion of preparedness,
and in the development OF a compaign
he evolved the P%lattsburg training
camp idea, realizing that IL We were
drawn into war lack of officers would
be a dire need. Since the armistice
his manner of handling the race riots
ut Omaha and the labor troubles at
Gary and in West Virginia have cen.
tered the attention on him anew. In
a difficult position. he emerged with
The goodwill OF both sides. but max
ing it plain that law and order came
first and in stating that a fair deal
was the basis for the cooperation OF
1 capital and labor recalled the Old
slogan OF Roosevelt.
from the New yors Tines