The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-06-18
FOR LEONARD WOOD

with the full appreciation of the
challenge Of the hour, I present the
name of the man who fits the hour
General Wood" declared Governor Henry
j. Allen of Kansas, in placing Wood in
nomination before the republican ma.
ton convention today.
Allen reviewed Woods military and
administrative career. He cited his
work >in Cuba where he established q
stable government, he said, and put the
country on its feet.
HI is the most successful civil ad.
ministrator the country has KNOWN
Allen declared.
moved from command of the Eighty.
ninth division just before it sailed fol
France and said this man is nc
whimperer;' that he babe farewell to the
Camp Funston to train another division
Answering those who object to Wood
because he is a soldier. Allen demanded
to know: sine when has this uniform
Allen also went into Woods recent acts
especially when he took command a,
Gary. Ind. during the steel strike. Al.
situation with absolute Justice"
we meet in a. grave hour. n what
We do here will affect the generations. II
is more important than it was four years
ago-more important than it was eight
years ago-more important than 1t has
been since the city saw the nominatior
Of Abraham Lincoln.
You ask for a businessman. We pre-.
sent to you a record of four years a!
governor of Cuba. a record which gain
ed him international fame as the mos
successful civil administrator the coun'
ice in Cuba constitutes a page Of history
which records the cleanest and mos
unselfish thing one nation ever did fol
a needy people.
| MISUNDERSTANDING xho h;obo.a ~-- -.
ness capacity. it was something more
than the work of a business man. II
was the work OF a statesman who had
not narrowed his vision to the purely
ment Of a great national organizer. A
president must be a business man and
more. He must be a statesman. He
must have e broad view Of the interna'
The vague longing for a business mar
for president will not be satisfied by one
who knows only business.
"A president must be able to interpret
the shadow OF coming events. We do no
need to speculate concerning Leonard
Woods foresight.
when the great war broke upon the
consciousness of the American people
with a terrific shock. it found tina,
Leonard Wood had been preparing. We
heard from him no platitudes about g
On his own initiative he established the
Plattsburg training camps, created the
first line of defense and gave to the
thousands of magnificent young Ameri
can men who volunteered a new deini.
ton of loyalty. a new opportunity TO,
service. a new vision of their nationa,
obligation.
'Whil other men were preaching nee6
of keeping out Of war he sounded the re.
veille that awoke a slumbering nation
and made victory possible. He insisted
he demanded. we must prepare
"A r,ain blunt man with blunt belle
in facts he iS fnAqV the hest Enouur
American. In the frank expression Of
his beliefs there is no hidden motive. Nc
candidate for high office has ever gone
to the people of this nation with soul and
Wood. ,
LAS president he will not seek tc
create for himself a neutral background
out of mediocre men. The nation will
have that to which the people are en-.
| titled to in its councils-the united brain
power of real leaders,"