The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-01
SOUTH DAKOTA
OFFERS GERARD
Choice of Primary Is
Presented as Demo-
cratic Leader.
STOOD UP TO ENEMY
While Ambassador to Ger.
many He Talked Back to
Kaiser; Record Praised.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s.
Praising President Wilson's attitude
on the peace treaty and tcrming Sen
ntor Lodges keynote speech at the
republican convention at Chicago "a
mere hymn of hate" l.. s. G.. Cherry
today placed the name OF former
Ambassador James w. Gerard in
nomination for the presidency before
the democratic national convention
In session here.
Mr.. Cherry pleaded for the nom
ination OF safe and sane man, "a
quiet man, but one Of clear vision.
a man who has been tried in the
great furnace of the times, and he
claimed that James W. Gerard had
all these qualities.
Things have been going on in
this world. during the last six years. :"
said Mr.. Cherry, very different
frQG the things which had occurred
before. Some thiriy-fivc or forty
millions Of men were hurled into
deadly conflict. Battle fronts were
organized sufficient to reach across
this continent from ocean to ocean.
The men in the trenches, in the
reserves. and In the training camps,
'-'"re the most capable, the most ac-
tive. and the most fit for civil pur-
suits. possessed by some thirty ma
tions, engaged in the appalling con-
flct. These nations quickly turned
away from the processes and pur-
poses of peace, threw all their
physical, all their economic, and all
their moral powers and resources,
into the most stupendous mortal
combat of all time
THE price which had been paid
To- nail nf
best livers were gone. Forty bill
lions OF national debts, resting upon
the bellgerent nations before the
war began, had lcaped to two hun
dred. billions of debts. Property de-
structlon beyond tho estimate or
experts had been sustained by indi-
Ndutls. by communities and by ma
tionS alike.
Such are the times and conditions:
this the state Of facts; and these the
relations, personal. national and in
!. .tcrnational in which our party Is
{ here and now assembled, to state
Sts plans. and purposes, and to select
Tus candidates These times and
these conditions have been calling
for. and do now call for. the exer-
else of the highest purposes and
motives by men, by women, and by
nations. all alike. Not isolation. not
greed, not profit. not mere party
advantage. not personal ambition.
not petty politics, must he the motive
Of the times. A broad vision, high
purpose. and commendable aspira-
tions must control. The chief aim
and purpose OF II all. must be the
reorganization and the re-adjust-
mont NJ all our affairs. personal
national, and international. upon n
higher and better plane, than ever
before existed. This must be, this
is. the motive of the hour
And now who shall he chosen
What manner of man shall be Sc
lected to lead in the great campaign
before us, and to serve, not only
his party, hut the nation. and hui
manitv itself after the 4th day of
next March? America demands a
safe and sane man, a quiet man
but Il man OF clear vision. or steady
aim, and of resolute purpose. II
demands a man of tried and proven
ability; a man who has teen tested
in the great furnace of the times, and
has been tempered, like steel. OF
such men, we have more than one
nay, we have many Let us put
one Of them at the top of our ticket
and one of them at the bottom oi
our ticket, and then let us hold ur
our platform. so that he who runs
may read: and the men and women
!, ,of America will do the rest.
N "And who, of all our candidates
most richly possesses these qualifi'
cations? The answer is: that mar
who lives in the great state of New
York: that man whose wide bust
ness experience makes him at home
in any state in our union; that self
made man: that man of clean life
and OF splendid character; that quiet
man, but man of tried and un'
daunted courage: that student