New Britain herald., 1920-06-11
CONVENTION HEARS
 ALL ABOUT JOHNSON
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AmericaniSm transfuseS its warmth to the cookies of their hearts and whose words of ringing righteousness bring: new hope to their troubled souls
 '1s it not the truth that the most important duty that confronts this convention is to see to it that the re- publican party is once again returned to power?
 Do you want another four years of economic chaos? Do you want an other four years of the Wilson family in the White House? If you insist that the father of the dynasty shall abdicate do you want the people then to take up the crown prince?
 IT you do not, why. then, gamble with chance? Why close your eyes to the obvious? Why not admit to your selves-what every man of political vision knows-that there is one re- publican who can sweep the country, whose nomination will carry with it the absolute certainty of his election
 'lt may be true that our near-offi- cer class, the captains of industry, the disbursing. officers of the primary army and the colonels of the commits sary who advance the sinews of war would prefer military leader. But l am here to say for the rank and file of the republican party that:
 The plain Tanks,
 Who fill the ranks,
 That have the votes.
 Are calling for the son
 of California;
 If you would know why it is that American citizens by the tens of thou sands have written in his name at every free-and-open primary in the land, l hold a mandate of California to tell you. The human sympathies have q wireless all their own whereby fellow-heart speaks to fellow-heart. Through it's unobtrusive but powerful workings the word has passed along hy average American to average American. Men and women every where have learned to know Califor- nia's son, and they have taken his just measure.
 A Man of Action.
 They see in him a man of action, a great constructive executive. a lead CT to whom platform promise is a solemn obligation. a man who keeps the faith, who enacts his promised word into the law of the land, an ex-
 rutive who gave to his own state a SnsrI ment so clean, so efficient, so upl pg, that 1t challenges compari- sonS leader who knows how to so wieIdN cudgel of political power that ev6N\2rty candidates are forced to play IN Sple squarely with the people.
 ''The supreh test of human great nNSC-fhn hn nf nn acter--comes . hen the ma, - brought face to h. ASiIh anAH& lure. In the prescices ol m fillok lurc--for SO runs the his; Fyt Of l guardians nf the c,Roman granaries. brave generals whs have trained a nations cohorts. hat3. ac- cepted the proffered carria gss H tho fl favored few that they might ride into places of power ever tfe x many 1 Aye-aye, they have pcrnrittrF them selves to br lifted hy tho cihied hands of CroesuS into his rolden. chariot dragged by the cxpectant stailions or Obsequious and favor hunting wealth.
 '1u the past few weeks the Ameri- can people have seen this son of Cali ' fornia brought face io. face with the highest ambition that can possess the hope Of mortal man They have seen | have seen his return from his great campaign with head erect, with no blot on his cscutcheon. and with eyes that can still look straight into the face of his fellow tcountrgmen.
 eff you shall select this son Of California rcmrmber that m the con duct of his campaign he has placed no burden upor the back "t the re- publican party. No Saoo.ooo 'angeis have been hoyering over him; no S25.o0O tin from the friendly hand of q Standard Oil king has found it's way into his poIitical' treasury; and not penny from his private purse has been 1 stalled in the gluey pocket of a show me- politician.
 Ten years ago. the speaker said big business men in California and 'our p1illionaires'' were fear ful of Johnson but they found that ..wheu mower was in his hands he used if so sanely" and he now has no sup porters more outspoken and en- thusiastic than the bankers and the big business men of his home state"
 You men of honest big men: Talse inst once from your stubborn ears the plugs of prejudice so you may permit yourselves to learn just what this mans creed really is,'' he continued. He sees organized society a struc- tvre of laws. When respect for law dies out civilization itself is dead. Therefore all Iawbreakers must he forced to bow before the law of the land The man who cannot subscribe tn that doctrine---and the doctrine is Ina .N+.4tsN- nf creed ll-