The Washington times., 1920-06-11
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Charles Stetson Wheeler IN
Ringing Speech Places Sen
! ator Before Convention.


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and cleaved lofty mountain
chains asunder, but they have
now leaped athwart the ether
and heyn. highways, through
the very heavens themselves
till the east and the west are
one. s -r
Candidate Will Win.
This proposition may be laid
down with automatic certainty,
The November election VIII
not be won by the platform OF
either political party. The per-
sonality of the candidate-and
not party affiliations going
TO elect the next President OF
the United States. The man
who will enter the White House
on the Fourth of March, 1871,
will be that Republican or that
Democrat in whom the average
American voter places the most
faith.
A yellow dog" is impossible
and n dark horse" cannot win.
II you expect their vote do not
offer g. them a cold, capable,
ncrveless, unsympathetlc busl-
ness administration. They are
in no mood to take it on. What
they want and what they de-
mand of this convention is a
candidate whose red blooded
for-the-right-Americanism trans
fuses its warpth to the cookies
of their hearts and whose words
of ringing righteousness bring
new hone to their troubled souls.
Calling For Johnson.
II may be true that our near
officer class-the captains OF in
dustry, the disbursing officers OF
the primary army, and the col
.onels Of commissary who ad-
vance the sinews Of war-would
prefer a military leader. But |
an here to say for the rank and
file Of the Republican party
that
The plain Yanks,
Who ill the ranks.
That nave the votes,
Are calling for the son OF Cal
fitornia.
In the past few weeks the
. American people have seen this
son Of California brought face
70 face with the highest ambi-
hon that can possess the hope
of mortal man. They have seen
,Shim put to the. acid test, and
thay have seen him return from
his great campaign with head
erect--with no blot on his
escutcl con and with eyes that
can still look straight into the
faces of his fellow countrymen
with mead so erect and with
gaze % proud that as. was said
of. Sumner so men must say Of
him: HE placed the standard
of his life upon a pedestal SO
high that. scandal standing on
tip toe could not touch the soles
of his shoes" This convention
cannot afford to turn its back
upon the banner Of certainty to
follow the dubious fortunes of a
candidate for whom it must
apologize.
Presents Clean Slate.
/; II you shall select this son of
California, remember that, in
the conduct of his campaign. he
has placed no burden upon the
back of he Republican party. He
has sa6dled it with no old man
of the sea to gall the withers of
the party throughout the cam
paign With him as a candidate
, the par Y will have nothing to
explain, to repudiate or to ex-
Clise
No 100000 angels" have
been lowering over him; no
. S25, 900 tip from the friendly hand
of Standard Oil king has found
its way into his political treas
. ury; and, not penny from his
private purse has been stalled in
in the gluey pocket of show
me- politician. o.
Where are the traducers-the
base calumniators who. have
dared to call this fortnight son
Of California red and
radical"
Denies Red" Criticism.
The only red in his whole be-
ing is the same red blood "that
tingled in our fathers veins as
they trod the fields Of Lexing-
ton" the same pure shade of red
that merges with the white and
the blue to make the glory Of
the Stars and Stripes. :
Ten years ago big business