Arizona republican., 1920-06-12

diers of the republic. A plain, blunt man, with blunt belief in facts, he is today the best known American. In the frank expression of his beliefs there is no hidden motive. No candi- date for high office has ever gone to the people of this nation with soul and mind so frankly reveald as Leon ard Wood
 Man of the Hour
 As president he will not seek to create for himself neutral back ground out of mediocre men. The na- ton will have that to which the people are entitled in it's councils-the united brain power Of real leaders the sum total of preferential expression that marks him as the outstanding candi- date in the minds of the whole people.
 The choice that is made now may mould the character of the nation for 90 years and perhaps longer, for restive minds are plastic and the leadership that comes now will go far to determine the character of our government hence forth.
 There isn't an American worthy to be here who does not believe in the future leadership of this country. We'll have that leadership when were worthy and that leadership will not depend upon any international society we may join.
 With all appreciation of the chal lenge of the hour, present the name of the man who fits the hour-Leonard Wood"
 MT. Knox. former private of the Rough Riders, told the convention that Kew Hampshire, the generals native state regarded him mot as a son of the state but son of the whole na- tion
 The speaker got a lot of cheers, blr not so much as did Mrs. Douglas Rob-
 
 for her brother Colonel Roosevelt. when she took the platform to second General Woods nomination. The first woman ever to perform that function in a national convention, she got a rising ovation, when she was introduced by Senator Lodge.
 To stop the demonstration, Mrs. Rob inson waved her hand. She spoke with & clear, carrying voice with crisp enun- ciation, apparently heard with ease to the depths of the halI
 Mrs Robinson declared she wanted Leonard Wood for president mot be- 1 cause he was my brothers friend, but because he is his type of man. Mrs. Robinson spoke in a we'll pitched ringing voice
 "I can speak to you as one of the mothers of New York state" said she, who know it was because of the fore sight anG courage of Leonard Wood that their sons went overseas fit, fight ing manliness and not as cannon fod- der
 Has Fighting Spirit of Late Teddy" i Mrs. Robinson spoke with feeling ana i a direct forceful delivery which re- l minded many If her late brother. l The crowd cheered when she said:
 we want not the man who takes the psychological moment We want the men who makes them. I. With emphatic gesture, Mrs. Robin son said:
 We must have the kind of a man for president who will look from Amer ica out and not from Europe in,
 No man can tell,'' said Mrs. Robin son, 'that had Theodore Roosevelt or Leonard Wood been in the White House, the Germans would have marched through Belgium to notbine more than the ringing words of a pro- test. We never want again man who waits between right and neutrality"
 She was loudly cheered at the end of her speech.
 Maj.G Gen. Leonard Wood, formerly chief of staff Of the United States army, friend. Of the late President Roosevelt and author of The Mill tary Obligation of Citizenship a book on army training and preparedness written before Americas entry into the world war. entered the army as a surgeon in 1885.
 1HS beginning or the World war found him in command of the Eastern department of the army. with head quarters at Governors Island New York. For the four years previously he had been chief of staff Long be- fore the United States entered the struggle, in 1917. General Wood and Colonel Roosevelt had made many I speeches in advocacy of universal training and preparedness. Thousands Of young men, as a. result of their ef- forts and of. others, attended officers training camps at Plattsburg. N Y. and in various other places throughout the country to prepare for the nations plunge into war
 Active In Arizona Indian Wars When the United States became a | participant in the great conflict. Gen l araI Nxyona r,,.,.l