The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-11
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party to say whether or not the high
est office in the whole world is L
be treated as the bauble of rich men
You can answer that question by
nominating the man whom the people
want.
IF you shall select this son OF
California, remember that in the con-
duct of his campaign he has placed
no burden upon the back of the re-
publican party He has saddled II
| with no Old Man Of the Sea to gall
! the withers of the party throughout
| the campaign. With him as a can
didate the party will have nothing
| to explain, to palliate, to repudiate
or to excuse. No 100000 angels"
have been lowering over him; no
s25,000 tip from the friendly hand of
Standard Oil king has found its
way into his political treasury; and
not penny from his private purse
has been stalled in the gluey pocket
of show me- politician.
BE it clearly understood that Cali.
fornia makes no pretension, no claim
that her candidate is the political
heir of Theodore Roosevelt
But If it should happen that the
claim is made that the political
mantle of Theodore Roosevelt was
bequeathed to anyone, then, before
you accept or believe it, California
asks that you remember that Theo-
dore Roosevelt, in the presence Of an
assemblage Of fifteen thousand peo-
pie, said of her son:
He is fitted at the moment to
be president of the United States.
And that SO recently as the nine
teenth day OF January, 1916, over his
own signature, he made this DELHI
crate declaration:
''Of all the public men in this
country today, he is the one with
whom l find myself in most complete
sympathy
Never before, or since, with hui
man words was any candidate for
any office more gloriously seconded.
My fellow Americans, the hour
has struck, the time has come to
scourge the last of the bosses from
this great temple of the republican
party. Men of the south, il 1t be
true there are men in your number,
hand picked men who have forgotten
the obligation they OF all men owe to
the flag of freedom: men of the
north, If it be true that there are in
your ranks political slaves who are
being dashed into line by the black !
snake of some party Legree, tell
them that they hold within them /
selves the power to strike the |
shackles from their own limbs Say
to them that the future of the insti- |!
tutions of our common country is here |
involved; that they, with us, are the |
Of sacred trust which !
rises transcendent over any obliga- /
ton that any man has ever owed to /
any political boss who has ever at !
tempted to dominate the conscience !
II delegate to a republican national |
"The sovereign state OF California I
low places before you in. formal |
lomination-Hiram w. Johnson
Governor Coolidge.
CHICAGO, June n.-Governor Cal I
lin Coolidge, if elected president, /
would "clear the murky air of Wash /
ngton like bracfng northern |
Speaker Frederick H Gill /
EFT, of the house of representatives,
old the republican national conven- |!
ion today in placing before 1t the. !.
lame OF the MASSACHUSETTS governor.
Illicit said:
"a year ago hardly man outside /
f New England knew who was gov
rnor Of Massachusetts,: today every /
over Of ordered liberty in the United |,
states knows and rejoices that the
Governor of Massachusetts, is Calvin
coolidge.
opportunity came to him and |,
ound him waiting her summons, |,
aim, courageous, resolute to do his
uty though the heavens fall
HE is not snowy nor spectacular,
mt he never disappoints. The lime :
light attracts him less than the mid /.
light OIL.
Would it not be restful change
o see such a man in the white house /,
oday? |.
II nominate for president, Calvin !,
coolidge Of Massachusetts,