1916 Woodrow Wilson Satirical Train Ticket Campaign Material

1916 Woodrow Wilson Satirical Train Ticket Campaign Material
1916 Woodrow Wilson Presidential Campaign Political Satire Railroad Ticket. Ticket Laminated to Wooden Board. Reads: "W.W. Short Line...Round Trip Ticket Trenton To Washington And Return.. Time Limit 4 years... Issued By Watchful Waiting Woodrow Wilson... Signature: Woodrow Wilson, Witness: Majority Vote, Date: November 5, 1912, Uncle Sam General Passenger Agent... White House Station To Panama Canal, Trip Ordered by J. Bull. Features Of Trip: Free Tolls plank floating to England 'Molasses which caught flies'... White House Station to Vera Cruz, Personally Conducted by N.C.B. Daniels, In Again, Out Again, Gone Again Finnegan. Excursion to see Huerta Salute the flag... Columbus N.M. Excursion conducted by Friend Villa (March 9, 1916) Sixteen Americans Murdered! No indemnity! They had no business to live near Mexico... 'Get Villa' Excursion (March 16, 1916) Personally conducted by the Perishing, with orders from the President of the Road to return if flagged by Carranza. Side trip at Carrizal, 32 Killed!...Special Notes: 1. No Passengers from the Suffragists' Special will be transferred to the W.W. Short Line Trains. 2. The W.W. Short Line will cease operations after the Landslide of Nov. 7, 1916. After that date all travel will be maintained on the Hughes Permanent Prosperity Special" As Mounted Approximately 31.25L x 6.25W x 0.75D in. Ticket Approximately 26.125L x 2.5W in.