Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

IT CANT BE DONE! There is no cause for Democrats and Progressives—lovers of peace and opponents of the horrors and crimes of war—to feel other than the greatest confidence in the re-election of President Wilson. Friends of his Republican opponent have been making vociferous endeavor to impress the voters of the country with a fictional strength for Mr. Hughes’ candidacy. President Wilson has the Democrats of the country enthusiastically behind him. He has the friends of preparedness and peace. He has every Progressive who really holds policies above prejudice and deeds above vague promises. He has the women voters of the states where suffrage is an accomplished fact, who hold their country first in their esteem and who are able to see more in the support President Wilson has already given suffrage, than in the opportunist espousal of their cause by a candidate who before never has shown by his acts even the most condescending sympathy. There are but a meagre few states where Mr. Hughes’ champions can give him more than a doubtful chance of securing electoral votes. Xo issue has been joined by the speeches of the Republican candidate which is of sufficient worth to merit serious consideration. Behind Mr. Wilson there is a long record of deeds done and legislation enacted which puts him far up abreast of the times and popular demands. For President Wilson to be defeated there must develop such a reaction from present sentiment as would be startling indeed. He has the record of achievement. He has the shibboleth of peace. He has the accomplishment of preparedness. He has a Congress which has stood nobly behind his policies and has written laws that the great masses of voters will surely indorse. He has been direct, diligent, assertive and dominant. Xo public man ever cherished loftier ideals or did more to win to them the public approval. Beat him? IT CANT BE DONE! Beat him, and restore to power in the Government the old order, the Republican reactionaries, the guardians and agents of privilege and prerogative? Beat him, and blot from the statute books laws that register a century of progress? NO, INDEED! Beat him, with the harvests ripening into such wealth as the country never knew before? Beat him, with the Government’s credit the talk of the world? Beat him, with labor employed, wages good and happiness the outward semblance of nation-wide contentment? Beat him, with the vaults of the banks of the country bulging and legislation already enacted which is the guarantee of low interest rates? Beat him, with his neutrality achievements, which have made us the one nation secure from the criminal effusion of the red blood of the sons and fathers of the land? Beat him, when the law is highly respected, when the national honor is respected, when the flag has been made the signal at once of preparedness and peace, and our people home-loving, God-fearing and ready for the higher achievements in the future than were ever chronicled in the past? IT CAN’T BE DONE!

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