Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-11-02

1t is all over but tn voting-and then. Wilson for Four Years More!
-Four years more of peace and prosperity while the wheels Of the nation
drive n toward our destined goal-Word leadership!
That is to be our destiny.
Nothing can stop it but a return to the reactionary party which for
forty years ave its bosses bacon while the people, the great American
people, struggled onward toward individual and collective freedom.
1es, the nation anne into its W lot because but Tin spite of the Re
the swamps, bazed the trails, opened the mines, dug the coal and the GOLD, made
the prairies: INTO wheat and corn fields and fenced in the great plains for cattle.
men who toled, have laid the foundation oft the greatest Republic known to
history, and raised thereon the fahest flower of civilization in all the world.
All this has been done despite the handicap of Political Bosses M ta
usurious toll Of Predatory interests
While the Pioneer grew inot the Settler and the Settler became ta
Farmer and yenowed the vast plains with the bearded grain I'M hrounod
them with the russell corn
While barefooted children tudged down the shady lane or over the long
hill to the little red school house to read of the wisdom of heir BENJAMIN
Franklin, the patriotism Of their Patrick Henry, the ingenuity Of heir Robart
sutton, I'll whitney, an Robert Hoe, the democracy Of their Jefferson, of
the only Washington who Fathered his country, of the immortal Lincoln who
saved. and whose spirit will forever unite the nation
While these little children around the old stove sang My Country. its of
Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty
While these same little children 1t night at their mothers knee learne
to bow their heads to their God who had given them birth in the Land OF
the Free and the Home of the Brave
While simple men sweated and toned Oh and loved their work and their
home and their country
While sweet faced mothers delved in toll and span strong men to do tho
nations work:
Greed crept forth clad in fock coats and a well distended skin and an
oily tongue, and slowly, surely. insidiousy gathered up the fruits If the
sweat and the harvest Of the fields, orchards and mines, and by special
privilege. by fraud. by bride, by graft by trikery, by knavery, by treacherv
yes, and by treason caused themselves. to become the richest CLIQUE Know
in the worlds history.
The core of this clique is the permanent inner ring the Invisible Govern.
ent of the Tcpubican Party.
This clique, dsagreeng OF a candidate four years ago, fell out. and the
American People came back into their own under the leadership of Woodrow
Wilson. who has held inviolaby sacred that trust thus put into his hands
by Fate And by the grace off God the American People propose 20 g % o. viii
that tried. true, great man who trusts them because he knows they trust him
Woodrow Wilson is a nw Trust in American Hte-greater than all 9th.
ers-greater because he stands for II Trust is backed by n % Trust. and is
the candidate Of 10 Trust but is the trust Of the whole American people
who love him because he has kept them out of war, honor him for his
courageous Christian humanity, and thank him for his broad craftsmanship
and his fearless, intelligent leadership.
By his deeds and by his acts rs well as by the enemies he has made, his
Woodrow Wilson deserves the vote of every man I'D everv woman in
every state in the Union.