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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
There's a war-cry from Chicago That's spread unto the sea A summons to the battle For the ga-lant and the free.
Yet a battle without blood-shed and a fight all free of graft The battle of the voters for our good and honest Taft.
Thank God that we are free men And can vote for whom we will. We spread our starry banner freely forth from dome and hill.
Hurrah then for our freedom Let us cheer him with a will. The man though slated president is just a plain man still.
He has said it to his credit Let us cheer him with a will "Although I'm slated president I'm just a plain man still."
'Tis the key-note of the poor man and the man all free of graft Whom 'tis said shall be presi-dent our good and hon-est Taft.
Thank God that we are free men And can vote for whom we will. We spread our starry banner freely forth from dome and hill.
Hurrah then for our freedom Let us cheer him with a will. The man though slated president is just a plain man still.
There was blood in our election In the time of shall and shan't When we feared to vote for Lincoln And we risked our lives for Grant.
Now we cast the ballot fearing nothing more than autumn rain And our peace will grow more peaceful under Taft whom 'tis said shall reign.
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At Parlor Songs scroll down to hear the tune. Richard A. Reublin writes: On first hearing this song, I wondered why a composer would create such a beautiful song and use it as a one-time throwaway, for that's really all that most campaign songs are. Then of course I realized that political zeal can make people do just about anything.
The difference, then, is between the candidates. They are equally well known to the country, the tried and the untried, Mr. TAFT schooled and ripened by large experience, Mr. BRYAN altogether inexperienced in administrative duty; Mr. TAFT wise, judicial, steadied by great responsibilities borne with unfailing credit, Mr. BRYAN unstable, flighty, fertile in extemporized principles and justified to the approbation of the people neither by achievement nor by sagacity.
We know that public policies, the old and new alike, will be executed by Mr. TAFT reasonably, with calmness, with sanity. He is less impulsive than Mr. ROOSEVELT, not given to disturbing utterance, averse to spectacular and ill-judged display. We know nothing of the kind about Mr. BRYAN, because he has not been tried. We do know that his mind is unsteady, his principles unsafe. The country has twice rejected him for that reason. If he at all believes what he says, what he continually preaches to his followers, what he causes to be written in his platforms, his election to the presidency with the power and the intent to apply his doctrines to the administration of public affairs would be an immeasurable calamity...
The difference between the two candidates is so marked and distinct, so unmistakably clear, and it is a difference so vital to the public welfare that the rejection of Mr. TAFT and the election of Mr. BRYAN would be an appalling evidence of popular delusion.
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