Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-09

3 y the United States, six
" teen have been SOL
diers. Almost all the Prasi-
dents who have asked that
war be declared by Congress
had no military record and
were known as pacifsts.
Leonard Wood has had two
objections raised against him
as the next president of the
United States. One of them is
that he is too much of a mill
tary man, and the ether is
that he is not enough of
military man.
It is true that Leonard
Wood is not a West Pointer.
He was a physician by choice
and a soldier by circumstance.
Educated in tn e public
schools of Massachusetts,, a
graduate of Harvard Univer-
sify; devout in his RELIGIOUS
training in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, Leonard
Wood stands for the family,
for the home and for the
decent life.
General Wood in his youth,
under General Lawton parti-
cipated in the CAPTURE OF
Geronimo in Arizona. Leon
ard Wood, like George Wash
ington, entered the army
from civil life, without spec
ial military training, an1
each resorted to military
measures only as last re-
sort.
Won World Admiration
Leonard Woods governor
shop, both in Cuba and the
Philippines attracted the a.
tention and won the admir-
alton of all the civilized coun-
tries, for the very reason
that his methods Of reorgan-
ization were based on con
structive, hygienic, legal and
educational reforms. and were
not forced upon the people
Never before in the history
of the world did any coionia
administrator accomplish as
much in so brief a period.
Leonard Wood is an admin
istratOr and executive of tn
highest attainments.
Executive ability is not con
fined TO business men. The ca
pacity to command an army
to clothe and feed it; to mum
ton and doctor it; to move
and fight it, involves the high
est order of executive skill
Wood found Cuba suffer
ing from centuries of mis-
rule, plagued by yellov
fever, torn by dissensior
and discouraged by defeat il
war. In four years he left it
clean, sanitary republic.
Cromer's Opinion
GovernOr-General Cr omel
of EsgIand, the creator o
modern Egypt, called Woed'
achievement the creates
piece of colonial administra
tion in all history. Wood ha
accomplished every task com
mitted to him. He entered tn
Spanish-American war a
leader of the Rough Rider;
He came out a brigadier-ger
eral, and rose to chief of stat
He pacifed the Moros in tn
Philippines; attended the ms
neuvers of the German an
French Armies; represente
the United States as speci;
ambassador to a conferenc
of American Republics in Al
gentine; foresaw the Worl
War and prepared for i
Because he saw the nation
peril, he spoke his mind at tn
risk of the personal humilie
tiOn and punishment whic
followed.
After the war, a wave Of unre
swept over the country. Race rio
broke out at East st. Louis, Was
ington and Chicago, with a shoe
ing loss of life, only to recl
again at Omaha, when Gener
Wood, with troops and tact endt
the orgy of murder. Later
Gary, eighty thousand men we
out on strike. A mob of radica
attacked the police, and with
seventeen minutes of the tin
General Wood received the call f
help from the Governor of Indian
federal troops were on their w;
to that city. So tactfully and c
fectjyely did General Wood hand
the situation that the worlsn''
learned TO love the man, who vi
in his own person the cOusidera
father Of law and order.
Wood Self Control
shirgton y IS noted for h
eo'"-control and " stery of tempe