The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-12
WHY SOUTH
DAKOTA FAv0RS
LEONARD WOOD
PROMINENT CITIZEN OWES REA-
SONS FOR WOOD eupPoRT.
Like Lincoln He Came From the
Common People and Knows
their Hearts and Syrnpa-
thlxes with their Aims"

Judge Carl Sherwood. OF Clark. writ
ing to the Wood for President" Cam
paign Committee. gives hfs saso
for his presidential choice.
Says Judge Clark: Replying 10 your
favor, l will say that | am for Major
General Leonard Wood, because more
than any other man in the United
States. he typifies today:
l.. The enforcement Of law.
2. S~elf-control.
3. Economy, and
4 Real ~red-blooded Americanism-
While he is q military man. az all
our presidents in the last thirty years
have been, with the exception OF
Cleveland. Taft, and Wilson, he is as
far removed from militarism as any
man car be.
Like Lincoln. he came from the
| common people, and knows their
hearts. and sympathixes with their
aims.
Like Roosevelt, he has marched and
fought with the Rough Riders, and
Indian fighters of the west. He has
endured their h%ardships. outrode, out
fought, and outshot the best men. and
knows the heart Of the great West.
and is in sympathy with it.
BY sheer ability he rose from the
physician OF the poor in Boston to be
the appointed physician Of three
Presidents, Cleveland, Mckinley n
Roosevelt.
He is a graduate OF Harvard; .
great physician from his own merit.
and indomitable work. He became
the great general from necessity in
the Indian wars, and in the Spanish
American war.
After the war with Spain was over.
he was appointed Governor General OF
San Diego. because Of his great cx'
ecutive bility, End his ability to man.
age men.
He gave t~,stice where justice hal
been Inauown; respect for law where
contempt and hatred Of arbitrary
powers had existed for centuries;
health in the place of disease and
honest and economical administration
Of public affairs: schools in the land
of ignorance. and order and the spirit
OF work for chaos and idleness.
What he did at San Diego he later
did for the entire Island Of Cuba. He
knows official Washington, and has
not been spoiled by II.
When petty jealousy refused his
plea to go TO France, without a MUIR
muir he have his great organizing
ability to win the war.
His forward look and prophetic
vision foretold the Spanish-American
war and the Great War, and he begged
for preparation and was refused.
When the war was over and Anarchy
| famed up in Omaha, at the steel mills
at Gary, in the coal mines of West
| Virginia, he was selected by a hostile
administration as the man best fitted.
in the United States. to bring order
out Of chaos.
In each instance he restored order
without fear or failure; he put idle
men at work: brought peace and pros
perity out Of anarchy, and did 1t all
with such patient tact, with such clear
sighted justice and wisdom. that IL
was said OF him that he could have
been elected mayor Of any city where
he had gone to quell riots.
His motto has ever been: do II.
said Come and help work; not Go
and work" He has shared the labor,
the dangers and hardships OF every
position with those he was called to
command.
He has Travelled around the world
on high official. and diplomatic mis-.
sfons. He knows the needs at home.
and the dangers ind temptations
| abroad.
He stands now. and has always
stood. loyal to the home; loyal to the
school: loyal TO America and its flag.
and in this supreme hour, he has the
courage, the broad vision, and the
indominabe energy that will put the
nation at work. and force economy
and respect at home and abroad. and
keep this nation. as IL has become, the
trst nation, not only In wealth. In
power, peace and justice at home,
but in Just treatment, fair dealing and
an Incorporating demand for the
respect OF nj rights wherever the
Flag floats.
Without criticism Of any other can.
didate. but believing sincerely that
Leonard Wood typifiss all these
things as no other man OF the nation
does today. he is my choice for presi-
F, dent.
tsignsd) Sincerely yours.
G. q. SHERWOOD.