New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-12

1.-The great responsibility is yours"
Mr.. Wheeler said to the convention
delegates. "The American voter every
where is saying of CALIFORNIA; SON
Just as Roosevelt said Of him-'of all
the public men in this country to-day
he is the one with whom | find myself
in most complete sympathy
"To the end that men and not mas
ters shall administer the great trus-
teeship of the Republican party; that
you who hold in your hands the
triumphant assurance of certain vic
tory; that a Republican administration
may once again broadcast the nation
with happiness and prosperity; that the
Constitution of our fathers and the
highest traditions of the American
people shall endure; that patriotic prin-
ciples and the lofty ideals of Wash
ington, of Lincoln and of Roosevelt
shall live on and or and on-the sov-
fore you in formal nomination Hiram
w. Johnson"
The orator described Senator John
son as the man first brought forth for
Presidential honor by California after
seventy years of statehood and left no
controversy in recent political history
untouched as he sketched the Senator'S
career.
East and West One
Mr.. Wheeler attacked the argument
of political geo%graphers against canoi-
dates from the Far West, declaring the
East and West are me.
Disgust for the party in power is
UNIVERSAL" said Wheeler. But not
withstanding all this there has never
been a time in the history Of the Re
publican party when failure to name
the right candidate would SO surely
spell party defeat.
The November election will not be
won by the platform Of either political
party. The personality of the candi-
date-and not the party afhliation-is
going to elect the next President of the
United States.
THE man who will enter the White
House on the fourth of March. 1921,
will be that Republican or that Demo-
crat in whom the average American
voter places the most faith.
"a yellow dog is impossible and a
dark horse cannot win. If you expect
the average Americans's votes do not
offer to them a cold, capable, nerveless,
unsympathetic, business administra-
ton. They are in no mood to take it
on.
"Wnat they want what they de-
mand of this convention is a candidate
whose red-blooded, fortnight Ameri-
canism tranfuses its warmth to the
cookies Of their heaSts and whose
words of ringing righteousness bring
new hope to their troubled souls.
Men and women everywhere have
learned to know CALIFORNIA; son, and
they have taken his just measure.
Great Constructive Executive
"Thcy see in him a maj of action,
a great, constructive executive, a
leader to whom a platform promise is
a solemn obligation, a mar who keeps
the faith-who enacts his promised
word into the law of the landau eX-
ecutive who gave to his own state a
government so clean, so efficient, and
so uplifting that it challenges COM
parison-a leader who knows how so to
WELD the cudgel Of political power
that even party knaves are forced to
play the game squarely with the people.
"ln the last few weeks the American
people have seen this son of California
brought face to face with the highest
ambition that can possess the hope of
mortal man. They have seen him put
to the acid test. And they have seen
him return from his great campaign
with head erect, with 10 blot on his
escutcheon, and with eyes that can
still look straight into the face Of his
fellow co%untrymen.'
Wheeler alluded to campaign con-
tributions and expenditures of other