Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-11-02
CHOOSE, VOTERS!

Are YOU for Wilson, Progress, and Peace, or for Hughes
Reaction and War?
1t is now just four days until election. The franchise is the price
less gift of free institutions. 1t contains your liberties; apportions au-
thoriy and power; directs American destiny.
1t is your patriotic duty, in making your choice Of candidates and
parties, to sound the issues to their depths. Apply your best thought,
then appeal to your conscience for the verdict. Let your best self
speak November 7, and let every qualified voter in America speak.
Your choice this fall is a choice between
Justice and injustice.
Equality of opportunity and restricted opportunity.
The interest of the masses and the interests of the classes.
Government predicted upon living principles of morality law and
right and government subservient to the selfish and INSCRIPTIONS foes
of American institutions and of America.
Such are the root questions. Where do you stand?
All Democrats, Independents, Progressives and Republicans by
the many, many thousands, hundreds of the leaders of American art,
commerce, industry, science and economic thought, ask you to vote for
Woodrow Wilson. They ask this because Woodrow Wilson stands
for justice against injustice, for equality of opportunity, for the masses
against the classes, for government based upon the living principles of
morality, law and right against government subservient to selfish and
INSCRIPTIONS foes of American institutions Of America. We who sup
port Woodrow Wilson assert, believe and know this because by his
record; he has proved it,
President Wilson speaks and leads in behalf of tue great cause
of clean, popular and thoroughly American government. Around
Hughes, on the other hand, are grouped the leaders of reaction, the
spokesman of privilege and the enemies of an American America.
They seek the triumph of injustice over justice, of restricted opportun-
iy, of the classes over the masses, and of narrow, selfish, sordid rule
of action and policy over rules based upon morality and the funda-
mental laws of humanity.
Such is the contrast between the candidates and the parties.
Take international affairs. Do you today really regret that you,
your son, your DrOtneT o your nuSDanQ, instead OF pursuing your OF
their peaceful occupations, are not killing Germans, or Frenchmen, OF
Engishmen, or Scotchmen, or Irishmen, or Bulgars, or Russians, or
Italians, or Mexcans? Do you really?
With no need to go to war, Wilson has kept you out of war. He
has said:
/. Thatwith the rest of the world poclaiming and enacting a car
nival of murder, America must hold high above the confusion OF
slaughter the living principles of morality, law and right.
2. That the wealth and might of America shall not belle its high
mission in European affairs by cauousy disregarding the living pnnci
pies of morality, law and right in dealing with a weak and helpless
neighbor nation upon the American Continent to-wit, Mexico.
Voters, do you or do you not uphold Woodrow Wilson in these
policies?
Never before in the history of America has so vile a SANDER been
directed against a President of the United States by other than the
mere prostitutes of politics.
Is the man who faced and fought and drove from control of ma
tional affairs the forces of organized corruption a coward? Is the man
upon whom all the powers of evil in this land have converged in the
last three years and a half only to be thrown back and trodden out oil
government councils, a coward? Is the man who clings to the cause
of right aud justice through a time Of such trial and selfish urgence as
no President since Lincoln has undergone, a coward? Is the mar
who with disregard of political consequences, and in sharp contras
with the course of his chief political opponent, defed the diaoyalss
of this country who publicly telegraphed Jeremiah OLeary that he
did not want his vote or the votes of any of his kinda coward?
Those who want war, who are against Wilson because he has re-
fused to allow America to be drawn unnecessarily into war,-Wood
who are the towards?