The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-07


there comes mo figure OF wood Of Havana.
scoursing The graftors bringing order out ot
chaos. building almost without q foundation
start on. modern. efficient government.
slicnt American efficiency. doing the work In
hand
f'i hm intimate fdcnds warned wood that
I hr accepted Wc Cuban appointment hls
career would hc ruiucd' Ito repeated JOB the
Philippines
%, h,. scs,ri. .u mo iosr auar0cr century
al'r.yrr American lntarofa have boon ln-
t"lFod, auI. usually. whorcsor the sttuptiou
called for ihc au,oa. aud Dcsl Ana not once
I0s the tongue OF rtIuuny uttered his uluo. not
ou' 'hn finger Of auapicion pointed In hi d.
r.,uou.
Hero n OEuhorn Hc nrc mon of many
ra'.. 90 mas Boo uut wo acok 20 nt tho
ntorun spu OF our old home state into Tho
',IH.ue posture or affairs We would JOY n
ha deserved honor too. Bat the possible nto
%, ihe republic ana what % may ho called
lo cnduro rrst. heavily ou our MIND Again
'1,rr r.foa 'la figure ot thc man who silently
endured rnr scpru ana prejudice ana Jealous
fonr of bureaucratic ucdiocr,t,. who served In
onHrurlrn doing TO tho last nil measure Of his
. .puW whatever h.t oommuud. iu.chinf would
permit him to do, .orvinV bs country uohly and
"oll m aubordluata position. ,hlln tine stafcs-
/ mon mud soldier. ot civilized Europe called hls
! unmc and listened u vain Tor an answering
/ ccho
/ The Industrial crisis that seemed to threaten
/ tho very foundations OF government mas not
.aasrd Tho climax win probably be- reached
| pftor tho presidential election And rs we
| measure tho events OF tho Immediate past with
/ the probabilities ot The future, recall GARY,
/ Indiana where government had bucklcd un-
oor tho threats OF organized lawcssnoss; whore
the strike leaders had threatened to precipitAtc
/ clyil war II tho soldiers came.
wood went And we hear him snyrg in
calm. measured words. to tho leader Of tho
revolt against government: Il represent the
government I ana here to see that every man
who wants 10 work shall have tho opportunity
To- do 40. that every man who does not want
/ To- work shall not bo forced to do 80. And. II
| 4, becomes necessary viii shoot the man who
| mtcrfcrcs with either one or tho other"
| And we wonder why tho chief magistrate OF
| the nation could not have thought to repeat
! those constitutional guarantees when the labor
! ouEarchy challenged government In the first
place. We know that civil war was thcatenod
| Y wood went to Gary. We know THAT he went
tncro. That is about all that do know
uutn the wires carried tho brief dispatch stat
/ inr that government was again tuuctionng nt
Gary There was no bloodshod. General wood
withdrew the troops. The trouble was over.
II has been said by some that General wood
might be incapable OF protecting himself
against his frcnds-as did Grant 1t Is true
that he ls not skilled 10y experience In tho art
q polltIcs II Is true that he represents tho
republic rather than any single state OF the
| republic But the country can take this chance.
hl,s, .
graft and corruption that existed in Cuba con-
tributcd to by a half-doHon natlonalities sent
influence ana political standing to the pcnl-
tcntiary. established stable government and
Withdrew after tho Job finished without
a fly speck Of suspicion his owu cscutcheon,
| can be safely entrusted to take care OF himself
with either friend or foe,
Likewise. the man who walked the paths Of
public lie with Theodore Roosevelt Tor two
decades his intimate aud friend II not disciple
pnd cmulator. may bc relied on To- know his
rull share OF the methods that are successful In
handling that most difficult OF all tacuons~a
fawning, sychopauuc following.
The world secs In the wealth of material
available for a presidential candidate some em-
barrussmcnt An OF 1t Ia acceptable. But signs
ere not lacking that combinations are being
formed to defeat wood And Wood, it seems
20 The World. is the need Of the nation. lie
fits
We believe that the untrammoled public
opinion OF oklahoma is for Wood We think 1t
should he FOR him. We think that tho ma
tious' necessities such at the moment that
It would be almost criminal to jeapard'so then'
~ nolllcal trading and partisan hawking In
this country tho voter is sovereign The chair
man OF tho republican national committee has
IN, t,f { he
, loan organlzatlou IS TO oloct, not select. the
next prosldeut OF tho United states. TO select
ID the function OF the sovereign voter
H. as we believe Genera Wood s the choice
ot the sovereign voters of oknhoma, then LET
, that fact bc made not ony known but made
,fcc,lyo by instructing the delegates TO tn" CON
, / vtntion To vote for him.
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