The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-11

mand at Gary, mo, curing the steel
strike Allen declared Wood @domi-
mated the situation with absolute JUS
tice."
Norman in America has been given
so many constructive things to do in
this generation" said Governor Allen,
''and no one denies that whatever he
has, undertaken. he has done superla-
lively WELL
IAN unexpected period of confusion
has come upon us in the aftermath Of
the great war. Old ways are lost and
leadership, hesitant and indecisiYe,
drifts upon an uncharted sea.
Under the weak hands of a timor-
Gus government. the social disorders
and observation-disclosures caught from
the world struggle have grown to
alarming proportions.
Nation Needs Big Leader.
The unchecked encroachment of
sinister greed, the appalling waste of
public money, the immoral pandering
to class interest and class prejudice
have brought US to a point where the
nation demands and the world expects
from this great council a leader
chosen out of the great need and not
thru the cunning of political expedi-
ency.
In seeking for the initiative and
the prophetic wisdom to guide US in
an hour that must be wholly construc-
whose record reveals the qualities
needed for the task.
TT is not necessary to ask for as
surances from General Wood. There
| is the witness of his service.
You ask for a business man. We
present to you record of four years
| as governor of Cuba, a record which
gained him international fame as the
most successful civil administrator the
country has known. Leonard Woods
services in Cuba constitutes a page of
| history which records the cleanest
and most unselfish thing one nation
ever did for a needy people. Chosen
| to work out the benevolent policy of
Mckinley toward the people of the
island for whom we had sacrificed our
sons, he was given free hand.
Made Record in Cuba.
HE recognized the island and
framed a model of government which
constructive genius. His wisdom en-
| comprised all the activities of the
people. He touched with his vital in
| terests its dead agriculture. developed
| its railways, taught the Cubans how
/ to make just laws relating to every
thing from municipal administration
| to general taxation. He builded
American intelligence into a school
system, reorganiZed the struggling
| forces of civil life into orderly govern
| Inelll, iulTOQuC6Q SANTA
| ton and hygiene. stamped out yellow
| fever and pernicious malaria and fash
| Toned it all with humanness and a sta
| bility that has withstood the strain of
changing years.
| Possessing the highest degree of
| business capacity. it was something
more than the work of a business man.
1t was the work of a statesman who
had not narrowed his vision to the
purely business life. 1t was the ac-
complishment of great national or
ganizer.
"A president must be a business
man and more. He must be a states
man. He must have a broad view
of the internal situation. He must
know politics, for politics is what gives
US our government, be it good or
| bad. Government is not better than
its politics and to improve the one
you must improve the other.
Business Man Not All.
THE vague longing for a business
| man for president will not be salts
fled by one who knows only business.
| The president must understand world
affairs and the crossing and recross-
| ing currents of social and economic
aspirations. 1t was the possession of
| this broad capacity that brought to
Leonard Wood at the conclusion of
his work in Cuba the commentator
of the leaders of the period.
"A president must be able to inter
pref the shadow of coming events.
We do not need to speculate concern
| ing Leonard Woods foresight.
when the great war broke upon
! the consciousness of the American
people with a terrific shock, it found
| that Leonard Wood had been prepar-
| ing. We heard from him no plati-
tudes about a million men springing to
| arms over night. On his own initia-
tive he established the Plattsburg
training camps, created thte first line
of the national defense and gave to
the thousands of magnificent young
American men who volunteered a new
i definition of loyalty, new opportun-
ity for service, a new vision of their
national obligation.
4 He Is Citizen of Kansas
I'VE saw him accepting whatever
task was given into his hands with the
cheerful obedience of those who sub
merge self in service. In our state
where he trained many of our SPLEEN
did young men. inspiring them with
his spirit, fashioning them into the
seth division. the people witnessed his
work with such pride that when the
governor of our state, my honored
predecessor, made him by proclama.
ton, a citizen of Kansas, every other
citizen applauded.
I'VE watched him go away to the
IpOlnI OIL einDdIkdtion ana lnen at Int
last moment we read with cqnsterna-
| ton that his great desire to take hi:
division to the field was not to bt
granted.
This man was no whimperer. No
an hour was lost in suIking. Not {
word was wasted in criticism. Not al
instant spent in mourning over hi:
personal disappointment We see hin
coming back to train another division
, If we cam he said, wen make i
even better than the one with which
I had hoped to serve in France
Is Citizen Soldier.
THE American soldier is a either