The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-02-20
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My SOUTH
DAKOTA FAVORs
LEONARD WOOD
PROMINENT CITIZEN GIVES REh-
SONS FOR WOOD SUPPORT.
Like Lincoln He Came From tho
Common People and Knows
their Hearts and Sympa-
thizcs with their Aims"

Judge Carl Sherwood, OF Clark, writ
ng to the Wood for President Cam
oaign Committee, gives his reasons
or his presidential choice.
Says Judge Clark: Replying TO your
'avor. | will say hat | am for Major
General Leonard Wood, because more
han any other man in the United
States, he typifies today:
/. The enforcement OF law.
2. Self-control.
3. Economy, and
4. Real red-blooded Americanism.
While he is a military man, as all
)ur presidents in the last thirty years
lave been, with the exception OK
Cleveland, Taft, and Wilson, he is az
ar removed from militarism as any
nan can be.
Like Lincoln, he came from the
COMMON people, and knows their
hearts, and sympathizes with their
inns.
Like Roosevelt, he has marched ana
ought with the Rough Riders, and
indian fighters of the west. He has
endured their hardships, outrode, out
ought, and outshot the best men. and
Inows the heart Of the great West,
md is in sympathy with it.
By sheer ability he rose from the
physician of the poor in Boston to be
he appointed physician OF three
Presidents, Cleveland, Mckinley and
Roosevelt.
He is a graduate Of Harvard; a
great physician from his w merit,
md indomitable work. He became
he great general from necessity in
he Indian wars, and in the Spanish
American war.
After the war with Spain was over.
re was appointed Governor General OF
San Diego, because Of his great OK
ecutive bility, and his ability to a
,ge men.
He gave t,stice where justice had
peel InHuown; 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
If public affairs; schools in the land
If ignorance, and order and the spirit
If work for chaos and idleness.
What he did at San Diego he later
lid for the entire Island Of Cuba. He
Knows official Washington, and has
lot been spoiled by it.
When petty jealousy refused his
plea to go TO France, without a MUIR
nur he have his great organizing
ability to win the war.
His forward look and prophetic
vision foretold the Spanish-American
var and the Great War, and he begged
or 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,
n the United States, to bring order
,ut Of chaos.
In each instance he restored order
without fear or failure; he put idle
men at work; brought peace and pros
oerity out of anarchy, and did 1T all
With such patient tact, with such clear
sighted justice and wisdom, that 1t
was said Of him that he could have
oeen elected mayor Of any city where
lie had gone to quell riots.
His motto has ever been: do it.
iont' talk about it." He has always
said Come and help work.; not Go
md work" He has shared the labor,
he dangers and hardships OF every
position with those he was called TO
command.
He has travelled around the world
IN high official, and diplomatic mis-
,ions. He knows the needs at home,
md the dangers and temptations
lbroad.
He stands now, and has always
stood, loyal to the home; loyal to the
school; loyal to America and it's flag.
md in this supreme hour, he has the
courage, the broad vision, and the
ndominabe energy that will put the
lation at work, and force economy
md respect at home and abroad, and
Keep this nation, as it has become, the
irst nation, not only in wealth, in
power, peace and Justice 1t home,
,ut in just treatment, fair dealing and
IN uncompromisins demand for the
aspect Of our rights wherever the
flag floats.
Without criticism OF any other can
iidate, but believing sincerely that
leonard Wood typifies all these
hings as no other man of the nation
Ices today, he is my choice for presi.
lent.
(Signed) Sincerely yours,
~ r. SHERWOOD