Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — WOOD NOW GREATEST OF LIVING AMERICANS [ARTICLE]

WOOD NOW GREATEST OF LIVING AMERICANS

Leonard Wood is now, since the death of Theodore Roosevelt, the greatest living American, according to Thomas Reed of Atlanta, Ga., who served under Wood in Cuba and the Philippines. Following his discharge from the army Reed was engaged in business in the Philippine Islands while Wood was an command there. Consequently he ■had opportunity to observe the General num the position of a soldier and of a business man. “Wood is an ideal American, and many times have I extolled his many good qualities, his Americanism and his wonderful ability to my thirteen-year-dd boy,” writes Mr. Reed. “Since the death of the great Colonel Roosevelt, it is my opinion that General Wood is now the greatest living American. I have no doubt whatever of his nomination, and that means his election. I merely recite all this to show that I am in a position to know the great character of General Wood.