Arizona republican., 1920-07-16
Arizona Republicans Discuss Ticket,
 Endorse National, State Candidates,
 Party Platform and Campbell Policy
. Keynote Speech
 Points Wdy Of
 1920 Cam p0ag7a

PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 15.-The keynote speech before the assembled republicans of the party council was delivered tonight by Hon. Charles R. Lane of Indiana who had come at the request of the National Republican committee. It was an address rather outlining the presentation of republi- can claims to the voters in the present campaign. MT. Lane said in part:
 When I happenea to be in the of flee of the National Committee in Chi cago last week, and was assigned to this pleasant duty by MT. Ellis of the bureau of speakrs, Mir. Ellis, who halls from Indiana, conferred with MT. Ray mond Benjamin, regional director, as to the appointment. MT. Benjamin was of course anxious that the man as- signed to this post should be safe and sound, and he inquired of MT. Ellis whether MT. Lane could speak the lan- gauge of the West. I do not know just what Mr. Ellis said, but as we who live in Indiana call ourselves western CTS. and as we speak but one language and know but one flag, I feel as if l were qualified to claim to be able to speak the language of the West. In Indiana we speak of the Atlantic shore as the East and everything west or the Allegheneys is the West.
 And so am here in the hope that may be able to say something which
 
 this great state of Arizona, whose vote is needed. My efforts shall be rather to make you think than to thrill. am no Watson, nor Beveridge, nor Borah and speak only as a business man who gives much attention to Re publican affairs in his own state. I was led to believe that this was to be a mass meeting, but now realize that if the purpose had been to open TOT mally your campaign before the people. you would have called for a Watson, or a Beveridge or a Borah. When you open your campaign you will want, and will deserve, some real successor to the Roosevelt whose eloQueneeN you have so often heard, and whose leader ship persists, although his magnetic voice no longer can be heard. We re- joice today to ratify the nomination of two men, eminent in party councils, and proved and tried, and not found wanting in statesmanship. We ratify their nomination in the confidence that if Roosevelt was still here, to guide the millions of his followers, his voice would ring with praise, and thunder with admonition for a united party with the common purpose to restore control O. the country to the party which has never failed in any crisis. We are confident that if the Chicago convention had been given the benefit of his advice he would have endorsed 1 the AHiCaSO uOAllLEGS III UNDERTAKES. | having the true ring of a 100 per cent | American, and would have approved i our platform covering all the issues of the day, whether they affect Maine or Arizona. It is not too much to say | that if he had still been living he would have taken a leading part in the | election of Harding and Coolidge. We therefore ratify today as party or ganization, the imposing work of that great convention at Chicago which registered the real composite will of 1 that great majority of voters in this country, who compose the Republican party.
 Harding the Peoples Choice
 ''The Republican convention made no mistake It is true that I was heart and soul for General Wood, who still think is highly qualified for the office of president, and I know of no one in the world better qualified for this high office than General Leonard | Wood
 But we settle things in this country l by majorities, and it has been my lot | to meet an adverse majority in my | democratic county. more than once. have the habit therefore, of tipping my me. If this is true in a general cleo l tion, it must all the more be true when | the convention of my own party l speaks. As a good American, am always for the man who wins, for then he becomes the expressed choice
 of the majority of the party, but I hear some say that Harding was not the choice of the majority. This is an l evident mistake. The Wood man may say that Harding was not the peoples choice. but he must remember | that General Wood, great as he is, and sound as he is an American, was not | at any time within sight of the re- | quired number of votes to win the l nomination. The Lowden man may say that Harding was not the choice of the people, but Governor LOwden did not come as near the nomination as Gen. eraI Wood, except perhaps in one or two ballots. The Johnson man says that the wrong man was nominated
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