Who Is Winning?

Title

Who Is Winning?

Creator

Democratic National Committee (U.S.)

Identifier

WWP22565

Date

1918 November 3

Description

Draft of an advertisement that ran in newspapers across the US on November 5, 1918.

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Subject

Elections--United States--1918
Political parties--United States

Text

"It is a race between Wilson and Hindenberg."

WHO IS WINNING?

The armies of the Kaiser are still fighting -- will you take a chance on postponing their surrender by refusing to back up the Commander-in-Chief of our Army and Navy?

REMEMBER VOTERS WHEN YOU GO TO THE POLLS TUESDAY,

you will not be voting for Republicans or Democrats as individuals but for the leaders who will control them when they go to Congress.

THE ISSUE IS LEADERSHIP!

Whose leadership do you prefer? That of Senator Lodge, Senator Penrose and Colonel Roosevelt, who would dominate a Republican majority and block the President, or the leadership of Woodrow Wilson?

What is the difference? The Republican leaders are on record against President Wilson's Our President's fourteen terms do not help the selfish classes in any country but they favor all the masses of people. They seek to put an end to war and the things that breed war.

With Colonel Roosevelt denouncing the whole basis of these peace terms and Senator Lodge rejecting all the fundamentals now what could the country expect the Republican leaders to do with a peace treaty if they came into control of congressional committees? Having condemned such a treaty in advance they could not ratify it without stultifying themselves, and by their speeches Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Lodge have served notice on the country that they will not approve a peace treaty based on the Wilson principles of peace.

This is the issue which is now squarely before the country. The people have to decide whether they will follow President Wilson or Colonel Roosevelt, whether they want a peace of liberalism and justice, or a peace of imperialism, standpatism, militarism that leaves all the old abuses causes of war exactly where they were before we undertook to root out militarism and the rule of force and war itself.

YOU VOTERS MUST DECIDE THESE ISSUES FOR YOURSELVES AND FOR YOUR CHILDREN.

President Wilson stands for

WINNING THE WAR

AND DESTROYING MILITARISM AND KAISERISM.

He insists "that adequate guarantees be given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety."

The President stands for a LEAGUE OF NATIONS. This league will protect nations, large and small, and permit every people desiring freedom to determine their own destiny.

EVERYBODY WANTS THIS EXCEPT THOSE WHO WILL PROFIT BY THE OLD ORDER.

Now that the hour when the triumph of President Wilson's program for the liberation of the world is at hand, shall our President be politically discredited?The most momentous diplomatic conference in all history is now being held in France. Show the world, by your vote of confidence in President Wilson, that he speaks as President of the United States for a united country.

Never mind what political party you are ordinarily affiliated Are you behind your President in the most critical moment of the world's history?

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BULGARIA, AND TURKEY HAVE CRUMBLED. GERMANY IS NEXT.

Let us stand behind our leader, so that we may complete our victory and obtain a conclusive and enduring peace.

Do not vote to hamper the President, as surely would be the result if one branch of the Government is Republican and the other Democratic. President McKinley in the Spanish-American War asked for a united nation through the medium of a Republican majority, and was supported in this appeal by former President Harrison, Colonel Roosevelt, Senator Lodge, Senator Penrose, as well as Democratic voters -- by the people of the country without respect to party lines.

VOTE TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT WHO HAS APPEALED TO THE PATRIOTISM OF REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS DEMOCRATS TO CONSIDER COUNTRY ABOVE PARTY -- TO SAY WHETHER THE PEOPLE SHALL HAVE THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT WILSON, OR OF HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

BACK UP YOUR PRESIDENT WHO IS RECOGNIZED EVERYWHERE AS THE TRUE SPOKESMAN OF LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

DO NOT VOTE TO EMBARRASS THE PRESIDENT. HOLD UP HIS HANDS. VOTE TO SUSTAIN HIM BY ELECTING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO SPEAK FOR YOU.

Original Format

Advertising Draft

Files

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Collection

Citation

Democratic National Committee (U.S.), “Who Is Winning?,” 1918 November 3, WWP22565, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.