New-York tribune., 1922-09-29


only has the iatciIigencesso know what
the. right thing is and the character
to pursue it bet the daunsiessness of
soul. which in pursuing it casts to the
winds all thoughts OF consequences TO
seifA~to which truth is not word 30
play with bnt an scsuality to fight for
LIN short. the kind Of leadership cx
hibited fer the last two years by the
Governor OF this state.
Miller the True Leader
sThe most encouraging development
in the state in these two years is that
in spite Of the noise and bluster of the
demagogues and the abuse and mis-
representations Of the partisans the
exponent Of that kind OF leadership
has risen ever higher in the confidence
and trust of bis fellow citizens. And
make no mistake about this. II is TO
that kind of leadership in the states
and nation that we must look If our
country and the institutions created
ny its founders are permanently to
endure. Problems we shall always
always nave, for progress is the law of
life, but more important than any
problems are the spirit and equipment
with which their solution is ap-
preached. The crack Drained vision
aries, the selfish Bgitators, the foment-
ers of class or group hatreds and dis
tinctions. will never move things for
ward. and no problem, whether it be
political or social or industrial, will
ever be solved in this state or any
other unless toward it's solution are
directed both trained intelligence and
fundamental honesty of the kind
pissessed by the man 7 am to name.
IF ] were to classify the men in
f,, ks fa{o
them into three classes those who
shine because of their own affirmative
qualities, those who shine only by com
psrison with others and those who
oonf shine at all. And | need not
tell you, coming as I do from the City
OF New York and yielding to none in
my loyalty to that great community,
tnat just now we have in our govern
Inent down there none OF the first class. |
mighty few of the second and a vast
overproduction of the third
Work for Blind and Mute
Mr.. Elsberg was interrupted with
burst of applause and unrestraineA
merriment as he spread out d mental
panorama of the Manhattan Sahara.
II said he (referring to the Gov
ernor) had an informed mind" con-
tinued the speaker. Surely no one
who ever talked with him or heard
him speak or read what he had to say
could doubt that for a moment | said
he had generous heart. And ! shall |
refer to but one thing out of many !
1t is mentioned in the platform. After
years and years of mouthing about
social welfare it remained for his ad-
ministration, on his initiative, to rescue
the poor little blind and deaf mute
children of the state from Il pauper's
lot. And was it not John Hay who
wrote:
Il think that saving little child
And fotchiug him to his own
Is e derned sight better business
Than losfnE around the throne?
Particularly if the throne be that of |
the yellow journalists and the combina- |
tion of impudence and ignorance for |
which it stands
Ladies and gentlemen, to-day in this |
convention we are taking the first step /
OF our American procedure in connec- ,
ton with the highest Office in our state !
government We are taking it in ref |
erence to an incumbent of that Office I
who by every standard of right think |
ing and right living men and women |
deserves we'll of the state he loves and |
serves. We are taking it without |
doubt of the issue, and with all the |
enthusiasm which such a cause evokes !
We are taking it, not in the cynical de- |
lusion that God fights on the side of
the strongest battalions, but in Lin
coins sublime faith that right makes
might, the faith of Lowell that the |
strongest battalions are always on the |
side of God and Of His eternal justice
Expressing the thought in every
mind and the hope in every heart in |
this convention hall. voicing the over
whelming public call that he continue
his great and inspiring public service,
! nominate as the candidate of the Re-
publican party for reelection to the
office he has graced Governor Nathan
l.. Miller"
Tribute to Eiihu Root
During his address Senator Elsberg
referred to that great American, Elihu
Root and the convention broke out in
most enthusiastic applause, rising to
greet Mr.. Root, who bowed his thanks.
Mrs. Grace d. Vannamee, of Seneca
County. in a speech which was most
cordially received, seconded the nonli-
nation of the Governor. She said the
Governor represented intelligence in
action. "and." she added, nothing is
more dangerous than ignorance in ac-
ton"
Senator George r. Fearon. of Syra-
cuse, and District Attorney Dana Wal
race, OF queens, seconded the nomina-
tion of the Governor, the latter mildly
making a Presidential rainbow for the
Governor by saying ain Gods appointed
time he will change his residence from
the Capitol on the Hudson to the Cap
itol on the Potomac"
On the roll call Senator Calder was
cheered when he announced i48 votes
for the Governor.
Leslie J. Sutherland, the anti W ard
leader of Westchester, himself voted
his delegates for Miller, but four West
chester delegates did not vote at all
for Governor. Secretary Gleason an
nounced that l,1S5 votes out of 1.1S9
had been cast for the Governor.
Former Justice John Woodward. of
Chautauqua and Erie counties, nomi-
mated Colonel William j. Donovan for
Lieutenant Governor.
"He is the ablest and best equipped
man of his age in the statcSof New
York" said the judge 81 venture to
assert that outside of Theodore Roose-
welt Colonel Donovan has devoted
more time to literature and culture
than any man under my observation
Wadsworth Extols Donovan
Senator Wadsworth started to second
from the convention floor the nomina-
tion of Colonel Donovan. but. was in
terrupted by applause and demands
that he take the platform. Complying
he said that Colonel Donovans ideal
was service; that he was the sort OF
man who always was ready for an
emergency, and this faculty made him
perhaps the most successful and ablest
Of the battalion commanders in the
World War. His record as United