Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-16
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We imagine that Wood, Lowden,
Johnson and other aSpirants, feel
considerably fuddled not to say sold
Wood and Lowden had strong sup
port but the convention was afraid
of what people might say about buy
ing the nomination whether it was
true or not Johnson simply couldn't
be nominated AS the Herald pointed
out some time ago the East simply
will not stand for a Western candi-
date and the convention refused to
listen when California tried to tell
what a good man Johnson was.
We cannot help but note the diff
ference between the present control
of the. Republican party and the in
f1uence exerted by the great presence
of ten or twelve years ago. There
are those now who will feel embit-
tered and disillusioned but that is be-
cause they are idealists and love to
believe that our government is car
rier on according to beautiful theory
instead of sordid fact There are 9TH
ers who may profoundly disagree but
who will continue to work within the
party for the common good. These
believe that fundamentally the party
is sound and that it has great ira
ditions and has had great leadership.
Political schemers and bosses pass
just as great men pass but the funda-
mental goodness and honesty of the
people does not pass. Take heart,
friends, and press on.
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When we think of the recent con-
vention we also recollect other con-
ventions and other figures of great
stature now dead and gone. We think
of Lincoln whose shadow grows as
the years pass until he has almost be-
come God although he was no more
than very great man. We think of
the mighty minds of the ante and post
bellum period, Webster, Clay, Cal
hOun, and coming down, Sumner,
Blaine and Garfield Most of these
sought the leadership of the people
in vain and standing by, saw lesser
men take the presidency. Then we
think of that great figure of recent
years-Roosevelt The man the peo-
pie admired for his courage, respect
ed his integrity, paid tribute to his
intellect and loved him for his hui
mainly. No such man as this appears
today. sThese, Brutus, be petty
men," Greatest he was in confront
ing duplicity and how he drove it
from the temple and the high places!
Here was where a great personality
/ defeated ring within ring of prestige
and power! The reactionaries with
in his party never really liked RoOse-
welt but they accepted him when his
| political enemies had crowned him
with garlands and said, "Lo, here is
great man." The Roosevelt tradi-
| ton fingers with US and will grow
great even as Lincoln has grown
greater with the passage of time. And
the influence of that courageous, be-
nign presence gives us heart to work
as he, worked-for the common hon
estyN and good.
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/ Now if it had been Coolidge and
Harding? -
That big wind the other night was
not young cyclone as many stated
In fact it was nothing more or less
than Uncle Hiram johnson on his way
back to California from the .conven-
ton.
i Harding and Coelidge! Harding
being printer the Herald will have
I to support him just to show thai
! printers can be president as well as
lawyers, schOOlmasters and generals
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