The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-19
Law, Order and Leonard Wood.

Law, order and Leonard Wood.
American democracy and Amer.
lean institutions rest upon law and
order as a foundation. Weaken or IN.
dermine this foundation and the super.
structure, which has taken so many
years Of toll and privation to erect.
may come tumbling down about our
ears before we can discover or repair
the breaks.
What is law and order?
The pilgrim fathers before they
nde on the bleak, wind swept Mas.
~sachusetts shores on November II,
1920, gathered in the cabin OF the Nav.
flower and signed a compact in which
they "solemnly and mutually in We
presence of God and one another" CO.
venented and combined themselves in.
to a civil body polite" for their bet.
ter ordering and preservation" and by
virtue OF this compact they agreed
among themselves to constitute and
frame such just and equal laws, ordin-
ances and acts-from time to time
that shall be thought most mete and
convenient for we general good Of We
colony, UNTO WHICH WE PROMISE
ALL DUE SUBMISSION AND OBED-
IENCE."
That compact defines law and order.
Il is nothing more than due submis.
sion and obedience" by the whole
people to Just and equal laws" which
hey have themselves enacted for We
general good" The pilgrims realized
the necessity Of mutual respect of law.
Three centuries have passed and TO-
day we are again confronted with the
same problems the Pilgrims so con
vineingly settled in the cabin of the
kayfower as she was tossed on I'M
hfendly waves off an unknown and un-
chartered shore.
The issue today is, shall we permit
our constitutional covenant and com
pact, I'll representative form Of gov
eminent, our democracy, to be wreck,
ed because Of the failure and unwil-
lingness Of a few to give due submits
sion and obedience" to the laws
thought most mete-for ye general
good?"
The issue must be met and to meet
II we need a strong, courageous p
tent man; a man Of proven admin.
istrative ability, a man who is in fact
a statesman and who has not only the
fxity Of purpose to enforce just laws
enacted by the people for we general
good" but who also has those in.
stinctively human elements which are
SO necessary in tempering stern and
impartial justice with mercy and for
b%earance.
Such a man is Leonard Wood. No
other candidate for the presidency
has these qualities of heart and mind;
no other candidate has had the ey.
perience in really big affairs to just.
ify our acceptance Of him as THE
MAN OF THE HOUR. While others,
who are seeking the highest honor
the American people have to offer,
have been dealing with trivial things.
Leonard Wood has been directing and
settling world and national problems
of the first magnitude. He established
the Republic Of Cuba and gave self
government to a nation, His com
petitors have debated in the halls Of
congress or may have improved a
states bookkeeping system.
Leonard Wood stands for law and
order; for the preservation Of the
governmental ideals first enunciated
in the Mayfower compact and now an
intergal part Of the democracy under
which we live, in fact, of democracy
the world over. He belongs to no
class, he is a special pleader Tor 40 In
terest. He is fundamentally an Amer.
lean and when elected will represent
all the people and not a fractional
part OF the whole.
AS we face the future and the I'm.
rest which il protends we need the
guiding hand Of this sound minded
brave, forward looking paSent nam
LEONARD WOOD.