Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1920 — A GREAT CITIZEN. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT CITIZEN.

To hear Gen. Wood ia to come under the spell at that elusive thing we try to describe as a great character. With none of the arts of the professional orator, with none of that studied grace and polish which men so often utilize instead of solid worth, he gives one the impression of a sober .thinker, a wise administrator, a true patriot —in a word, a great citizen. It is hard to think of him as a candidate for this or that, as a selfseeker of any kind; but he appears as a brave and honest man who has given much thought to the problems of the nation and whose services should be utilized, as indeed they have always been utilized, for the stupendous tasks of peace or war. He 'may not be President, but he must be a heroic figure of our public life, whose counsel is worth geeking, whose qualities of leadership must not be despised or dispensed with. Few iften have so correctly sensed the needs of the time or the spirit of the age. He sees the new ideas that are moving among men, but he clings passionately to the old and homely virtues, the gospel of liberty and law, the constitution, the ancient landmarks. He is willing to make progress, but he requires to know beforehand the steps in question will lead. He is intensely practical in application, but immovably wedded to the true and tried principles of our historical development. He is a man to be trusted and followed in whatever capacity his duty calls him; and from his past we know that whatever that duty is, it will be well done.