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Come hear the genuine
come hear the genuine

The one and only
the one and only

Come hear the hullabaloo tickety-boom,
tweedle-Dee-Dee plinkity-plink

Better get ready to hear
and better get ready to cheer

The one and only, genuine
original family band

- Play it loud! - Play it proud!
- for together here we stand

The one and only, genuine
original family band

Come hear the hullabaloo
of our tuba

Hear the tickety-boom
of our drum

Hear the tweedle-Dee-Dee
of our woodwinds

Hear our plinkity-plinkin'
banjo strum

And when the razzamatazz
of our brasses

Begins to bezaz in the air
something grand

Better get ready to hear
and better get ready to cheer

The one and only, genuine
original family band

We can play
with virtuosity

Waltzes, marches
polkas and mazurkas

We can play them
sentimentally

Or just like the music
of the circus

And when the razzamatazz
of our brasses

Begins to bezaz in the air
something grand

Better get ready to hear
and better get ready to cheer

The one and only, one and only
one and only, one and only

One and only, genuine

Original, original
family band

Ya done it again. Ya booped
when ya should have oompahed!

I'm sorry, grandpa.

Can you just go on without me?
Mr. hodgkiss just arrived with the mail.

Uh, yeah, that's about enough for me too.

I, uh, promised I'd turn
sod for Katie's flower bed.

Uh, yes, I'll show you
where I had in mind, dear.

My lip's tired.
There, ya see?

You need practice.
Build it up! Build it up!

And I sort of promised Hank
winters I'd come by this mornin'.

Oh. All right.
All right.

If nobody else wants to get
the invite to St. Louis,

I sure don't care.

I want to go, grandpa!
Me too!

Well, means nothin' to me,
ridin' on a train,

stayin' in a hotel, eatin'
in fancy restaurants,

maybe even playin' for the
president of the United States.

All I said was "my lip's
tired"! Play! Come on, please!

Hey!

Alice got her letter from Joe carder!

You can tell the way she
goes off by herself to read it.

It ain't a fittin' thing for a young lady
writin' to a man she ain't never met!

Well, papa says
you were all for Joe carder...

Until you saw a copy of his newspaper,

found out he's a republican.

No such thing! That's
got nothing to do with it!

I bet she's gonna
marry Mr. carder!

What will he see
when he looks at me

For the very first time
in his life

Will he see just another
country-bumpkin girl

Or the woman he will want

For his wife

Can my smile say, wordlessly

Things that
I couldn't ever write

Will it go all wrong
for me

Or will I be all right

What will I say
to the man of my life

When the man of my life
holds my hand

Will I just babble
unable to stop

What if I stupidly
stand there

For I have been saving
this part of my life

'Til the heart of my life
would arrive

And seeing him there

May be too much to bear

For the happiest girl alive

Letter by letter
my heart has learned

He's gentle and loving
and kind

And letter by letter
my heart has yearned

'Til I'm nearly
out of my mind

To meet him

How will I seem
to the man of my dream

When the man of my dream
says hello

Will I seem foolish
or will I seem wise

What if he just
doesn't know yet

That I have been saving
this part of my life

'Til the heart of my life
would arrive

Can I make it clear

That because he is near

I'm the happiest girl

Alive

I don't see no good reason
why we should get all head up...

Over somebody we never met
before... Rose, stop squirming!

And we'll never see again.
How can I... you look lovely, dear.

I'll take that brush. Try to stay clean.

Here, let me help ya.
I can't do one of these.

When I was your age, I could tie 'em.

Just fine. And you look gorgeous.

Now please, try to remain
clean. How about this one?

Do you like it better than the green one?

Oh, yes, dear!
It's just fine.

I always did love that dress.

I didn't see nothin' wrong with the
white one you had on in the first place.

Oh, grandpa,

do you really like that
one better than this one?

I mean, do you think it
looks better on me? Honey,

you'll have 'im bug-eyed and breathless
no matter what dress you're wearin'.

I just didn't want to see her
get her heart broke.

But anybody that twists the truth
around the way he does in his newspaper...

I sure wouldn't believe
nothin' he wrote in the letter.

Here he comes!
He's turning at the gate!

Look it!

Get away!
Get away from the window!

Come on!
Oh, look it!

- Girls, get away from that window.
- Do we have to?

Calvin, please.

What's he like?

He doesn't look much like his
picture. He's grown a moustache!

Oh!

Grandpa, he'll see you!

Say, look at 'im. He sure
thinks he is somebody.

Got a big, gold watch chain.

Got to show how important he is. Boys.

He don't look like he's got sense
enough to pound sand in a rat hole.

You can sort of tell by looking at him.

He's just the type that would
put out a republican newspaper.

How do you do?
I'm Alice.

- Uh, won't you come in?
- Thank you.

Uh, may I take your hat?

Well, at least it's turned out to
be a pleasant day after the rain.

I hope you had a nice trip.

Yes, quite nice.

I-I don't... I don't think
I would have recognized you...

If we'd met on the street.

It's probably your moustache.
It...

Well, it-it makes you look so different.

Oh?

Um, would you have recognized me?

Well, I, uh...
I don't quite recall...

Well, from my picture, I mean.

Oh.

Well, I-i know it wasn't too good of me.

Well, there've
been so many things lately...

And I-i guess I don't have the best
memory in the world.

My wife tells me what I should do...

Your wife?

Look, am I in the wrong house or something?
I wanted to see a "rensselaer bower."

Now they told me...
Rensselaer?

Well, that's my grandfather.

You mean you're not Joseph carder?

I'm Henry white...

Of the Democratic national
committee. Oh!

Mr. bower has corresponded
with postmaster Dickinson.

Something about a campaign
song he's written...

And a family band he'd like to
take to the convention in St. Louis.

Strange.

Grandpa? Grandpa,
this man is here to see you.

He's from the
Democratic national committee!

That must mean they're interested.

We're just as good
as on the train to St. Louis.

It's sure nice of ya to come.

Mighty glad to see ya. I
promised postmaster Dickinson.

Well, eh, what I had in mind
was the reason I writ down.

You see, I made up a campaign
song for president Cleveland.

I know.

And what I thought might be a good idea...

To take the family band
to St. Louis...

And sort of introduce it
right there at the convention.

Put on a whole musical show if ya want.

I read the letter.

Well, first thing,
of course, before ya decide,

maybe you'd like to hear the song?

We do feel that a good, stirring
song might inspire party workers...

To greater effort and devotion.

You sure come to the right place!

Been a lot of dirty, underhanded politics.

Republicans making a play for the
undecided voters, the fence straddlers.

Trying to tell them grover Cleveland
hasn't lived up to his campaign promises.

Shh. My daughter-in-law, Katie,
don't like politic talking in the house.

Out to the barn, everybody! We're
gonna play our campaign song!

Hurray for grandpa!

I took a lot of time writing this.

I want you to meet my
daughter-in-law, Katie. How do you do?

My son, Calvin.
How do you do?

Sit right down there.

Now, right here, I'm sure
you'll be comfortable.

Yes, sir, I think you can
see much better here.

When I need
any help out of you, I'll ask for it.

Come on now.

In the frozen winter of '76
in a place called valley forge

Came a time for a man of destiny
and his name was general George

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

In 1861 our ship of state
was sinkin'

Again came a man of destiny
a man by the name of Lincoln

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

'twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

In our land today there's
a man who's tried and true

He's what this country needs
but it's up to me and you

Stephen grover Cleveland is
the man this country needs

Let's put it over
with grover

Don't rock the boat
give him your vote

Let's keep our country
in clover

It's up to you
he'll follow through

He made the white house
shine like a lighthouse

Over our 38 states

1889 is the time
to fall in line

Behind one of destiny's

Greatest statesmen

Stephen grover Cleveland is
the man this country needs

Let's put it over
with grover

Don't rock the boat
give him your vote

Give your vote to a man
who's a leader of men

Let's put grover
over again

let's put it over

- With grover
- don't

rock the boat

Give him your vote

- Give your
- vote to

a man who's a leader

Of men

Let's put grover

Over again

The bower family band
presents a glorification:

American patriots in living pictures.

Lexington and bunker hill
were only weeks away

When Patrick Henry said
these golden words that live today

"I know not what course others may take.

"But as for me,

give me Liberty
or give me death."

He stood proudly when he
heard his fatal sentence read

And then with glory in his
voice, young Nathan hale said

"My only regret is that I have
but one life to give for my country."

His words rang out across
the land and we recall with pride

A silversmith named Paul
revere who took that midnight ride

"The British are comin'! The British
are comin'! The British are comin'!"

Christmas day in '76
with courage brave and rare

The father of our country
crossed the icy Delaware

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
our grand finale!

Stephen grover Cleveland is
the man this country needs

Let's put it over
with grover

Don't rock the boat
give him your vote

Give your vote to a man
who's a leader of men

Let's put grover
over again

It's the time for a man

And Cleveland's the man
for the time

It'll do it, I tell you. It's got
enough zip and zing and lilt to it.

It'll bring down the house. Yes, sir, it'll
put grover over again. No doubt about it!

Put grover over again. No
doubt about it!

No doubt about it!

You know, there's somethin'
else I was thinkin'.

It'd be kind of nice if they took us back
to Washington to play at the inauguration.

You know, when he's swore in again.
Old grover would sure get a kick out of that.

We, um...

We've quite a few Bridges
to cross before then.

One thing I will say about the
song though, it really gets to you.

Makes you proud to be
a democrat, doesn't it?

Well, I guess it would, if I was.

He weren't never too bright, even as a boy.

Then he growed up
to be a gol-darned republican.

Do you mean,

you could sing that the
way you did and still...

Who'd sing your part if the
rest of you came to St. Louis?

Nobody's takin' off and leavin' me home,

not as long as there's a place
to go and a way to get there.

A republican singing
at a Democratic convention.

It just didn't seem the kind of a song...

They'd appreciate at a
republican convention.

Actually, to me, music
stands above all this anyhow.

You don't have to be a southerner
to sing, "the yellow rose of Texas"...

Or a sailor to dance a hornpipe.

You see, sir, Calvin isn't
just a rockbound republican.

Mostly he votes for the man.

What's the man got to do with it?

Well, I want to thank you, all of you, yes.

I'm going to recommend that
you be brought to St. Louis.

You'll hear from me shortly.
Great meeting all of you.

Bye,
Mr. white. Bye, Mr. white.

I always told you you could
buy anything with a song.

There's no door you can't open with music!

Who invented music

We'd like
to shake his hand

'Cause music
casts a spell on us

That we can't
understand

must be some magician
designed the magic plan

He changed his wand

To a Baton

And that's how
it all began

When the rhythm pounds and the
Harmony sounds and the melody rolls around

Presto-chango!

We're 10 feet
off the ground

And when the rhythm pounds and the
Harmony sounds and the melody rolls around

Right from the downbeat we
can be found 10 feet off the ground

When everybody
puts his heart in it

Everybody
plays a part in it

That's how music magic
is made

Everybody's toes get tappier
everybody's feelin' happier

Lighter than air out of his
chair ten feet off the ground

When the rhythm pounds
and the Harmony sounds

And the melody rolls around

Presto-chango!
he's 10 feet off the ground

Who invented music
we'd like to shake his hand

That's how music magic
is made

Oh, 10 feet off the ground

That's how music

Magic is made

Ia-la-la-la, la-la la-la-la

Ia-la-la-la-la

Lighter than air

Out of his chair

Ten feet off the ground

Oh

Oh!

Oh, how do you do?
You must be Mr. carder.

Yes. Mrs. bower? Joe carder. We
were just having a little celebration.

Would you excuse me,
please? Oh, of course. It's...

No! Go away! Alice, it's me, Joe carder!

Just leave me alone! Go away!

Please!

Whoa!

Alice. I can't imagine what you must think.

Then I'll tell you what I think.

I think you must be a lot more fun than I
ever realized, than I even dared to hope!

The way you were doing that, you were...

What I mean is,

I've never seen anyone
clown around like that...

And look beautiful all at the same time.

You want to know something?

I-I haven't slept in a week.

J-just thinking about what I would do,
w-what I would say when we first met.

I was afraid it would all
be so formal like your letters.

And I-i wouldn't know what to say, I
would j-just... I wouldn't think of anything.

Or maybe I'd...

And I would just start jabbering
and not have enough sense to stop.

That's silly.

Why would anybody feel like that?

Actually, I was the one who
found the name of your newspaper.

I asked Alice to send that first letter.

Well, I must not have done a very good job,

selling you on Dakota. Well,
uh, it isn't always that simple.

You see, a family the size of
ours, we put down a lot of roots.

But if you could just realize the
opportunities there are in Southern Dakota.

We're about to become a state, you know?

Must be beautiful in the black
hills: Trees, lakes, little streams.

Oh, I'm sure it's very nice,
but we have a good life here...

And a lot of wonderful friends.

Yep, guess I'll have
to go along with that, but...

I always keep thinking there might be
some place out west just a little bit better.

We've been lucky every time we've moved,

and a man hates to quit when he's winning.

No place ever gonna be so wonderful
that you couldn't dream up something better.

But you wouldn't say that, Mrs.
bower, if you'd just seen the black hills.

The air has a snap to it!
It's the scent of the pines.

And the sky's so blue...

You almost can't believe it.

I know what would be fun!

Why don't you and papa come
along to the meeting? Hear his lecture.

Oh, and, um, grandpa, you
can come too, if you'd like.

Uh, well, I-i don't really know.

I'd be very flattered if you would come.

Have you gotten many
people to move to Dakota?

Well, not just people,
Mr. bower, but the right people.

You see, the thing that first interested
our state chairman, he found that you're...

Almost 100 percent republican
through this whole area.

Oh? That's mostly what
you're interested in, ain't it?

Gettin' Republicans to move up there?

That's right, sir. You see, Mr. bower, this
past year we've had almost a tidal wave...

Of shiftless, irresponsible
democrats moving in.

A bunch of shysters and quacks
and usury-type moneylenders.

And if we don't do something about
it soon, they'll have us outnumbered!

Well, let me tell you somethin', young man.
You're trumpetin' a flat tune on a worn-out horn.

'Cause you can't turn back a tidal wave,

not by puttin' out a
rabble-rousin', ragtag newspaper.

And not by speech-makin' to a bunch of poor,
misguided Republicans! And furthermore...

That's enough, grandpa.
Now stop it.

We have a very special little rule
that I have to invoke, Mr. carder,

to, to make life bearable around here.

We do not discuss, we do not
even mention politics in this house.

And the summer kitchen,
I consider part of the house.

I'm sorry, Mrs. bower,
I didn't know.

Oh, it's all right. Oh, it's all right.

I don't blame you.

And I certainly didn't mean
to offend you, Mr. bower.

I just naturally assumed
that you were republican too.

Alice never happened to mention anything
to the contrary in any of her letters.

Well, now that's all settled.

We'd be very happy to attend your meeting,
Mr. carder, if you really want us there.

Come, Alice. Let's give Mr. carder
a nice piece of chocolate cake.

And another consideration.

There's enough land in Dakota so that
each of your sons, as he comes of age,

can take up a homestead, start out
in life owning a good piece of land,

instead of working all his life trying
to get it, trying to pay off a mortgage.

Now, let me tell you something, truthfully.

You're the kind of people
we need in Dakota.

Solid, decent, hard-working people,

who will help to build,
who'll always belong.

Who'll share in the golden
future of a glorious land!

Up in my neck of the woods,
in the black hills,

you'll find rivers, lakes
and babbling streams.

And that's sweet music, my friends.

Sweet music when you're reading about
another drought spreading across the plains.

Now that's why this whole
westering movement...

Appeals to thoughtful, far-seeing men,
who want a better life for their families.

What are we waitin' for?

I'm gonna go home and start packing!

Don't forget to take along
your snake-bite remedy!

- Do ya have snakes in Dakota?
- No more than most places.

And your frostbite remedy too.
Ya might need that even worse!

How cold does it get in the winter?

That depends. We're
a very large territory.

Ain't nobody really knows.
Thermometers always freeze up and bust!

I remind you, all of you, that
Mr. carder is here as an invited guest!

And we're gonna listen to him
tell us about Dakota in his own way.

Without interruption!

I'd be glad to tell you
some more about Dakota...

Without interruption.

Where the roots grow deep
and the winds blow clean

Where the air is sweet

And the summer's green

Where virgin fields
await the plow

A great tomorrow

Is dawning now

Dakota, Dakota

Where a man stands tall

Dakota, Dakota

Where there's land
for all

Rolling rivers
embrace the plain

Where some day
there's gonna be

Golden oceans
of blowing grain

Just as far
as your eyes can see

The black hills
the blue skies

Of the shining west

Dakota, oh, Dakota

By the heavens

Blessed

Where the roots grow deep
and the winds blow clean

Where the air is sweet
and the summer's green

Where virgin fields
await the plow

A great tomorrow
is dawning

Now

Dakota, Dakota

Where a man stands tall

Dakota, Dakota

Where there's land
for all

Rolling rivers
embrace the plain

Where some day
there's gonna be

golden oceans
of blowing grain

just as far
as your eyes can see

The black hills

The blue skies
of the shining west

Dakota, oh, Dakota

By the heavens

Blessed

Dakota, Dakota

Where a man stands tall

Dakota, Dakota

Where there's land for all

Rolling rivers
embrace the plain

Where some day
there's gonna be

Golden oceans
of blowing grain

Just as far
as your eyes can see

The black hills
the blue skies

Of the shining west

Dakota, oh, Dakota

By the heavens

Blessed

Boys take two, girls take one now.

Okay. Okay. Okay, grandpa.

I'll race you back! Okay!

The first thing we do,

we'll make a list of all the
things we want to take with us.

Then try and sell off everything
else. We can't do it.

Can't do it?

Not this year. Maybe
later on if things work out.

But now, Calvin, you know
very well that the very best land...

Will go to the first homesteaders that
get there. Yeah, that sounds logical.

And if we wait a whole year,
all the good land will be gone.

You've got to remember
all the plotting and planning...

And scheming that went into it,
to make this St. Louis trip possible.

We can't give it up now.

Well, we're not going
to St. Louis...

Just so the children
can get a ride on a train.

It's not the children I'm thinking about.

They've got their whole lives ahead
of 'em. But what about grandpa?

When's he ever gonna get
another chance like this?

We're not gonna have him
with us forever, you know?

Yes, I know.

Don't you worry.

We'll work it out.

I think we'd be a lot
better off, all of us,

movin' to rapid city, like your papa
wanted to all along.

What fun's a little old
mud-street town like rapid city?

And ridin' on a wagon and
gettin' a side ache instead of...

I wanna ride on a train!

I want to ride on a train too!

We want to go to St. Louis! Shh, shh, shh!

Now, will you let me
say what I'm gonna say?

I'll talk to Alice.

She'll be disappointed,
but she'll understand.

I wish I'd thought ahead a
little bit before talking to Sidney...

About him taking up
his own homestead, later on.

It might be still possible
that we get there next year.

Just suppose we don't get the best...

Where the roots grow deep
and the winds blow clean

Where the air is sweet
and the summer's green

Where virgin fields
await the plow

A great tomorrow
is dawning now

Dakota, Dakota

Where a man stands tall

Dakota, Dakota

Where there's land for all

Rolling rivers
embrace the plain

Where some day
there's gonna be

Golden oceans
of blowing grain

Just as far
as your eyes can see

The black hills
the blue skies

Of the shining west

Dakota, oh, Dakota

By the heavens

Blessed

Rolling rivers
embrace the plain

Where some day
there's gonna be

Golden oceans
of blowing grain

Just as far
as your eyes can see

The black hills the black hills

The blue skies
the blue skies

of the shining west

Dakota
Dakota

oh, Dakota

By the heavens

Blessed

Now we met and we surpassed
every requirement...

Congress could set forth. Right!

But do they Grant us
statehood? No.

Do they take us into
the union? No!

Do they live up to their end
of the bargain? No!

And why not?
Why not, I ask you?

What's wrong with us?

Maybe you talk too much!

Well, then they'd better
get used to it... Right!

'Cause there are a lot of things that
need to be said.

I'll tell you what the trouble
really is. They're afraid of us.

Who's afraid of you?

Because they know that when north
and south Dakota become states,

and we send our senators back to Washington,
we're gonna send Republicans, right?

Sit down, you silly republican!

Why don't you be quiet, you dumb democrat?

And that just might
break the stranglehold...

That grover Cleveland and his Democratic congress
have held upon this great country of ours.

That Joe gets himself wound up, don't he?

Yeah!

We'll declare ourselves the free and
sovereign states of north and south Dakota!

One thing, they got a pretty good
crowd out to cheer us across the finish line.

Really, grandpa? Why do you
always have to spoil a good story...

By asking, "really, grandpa?"

Isn't that Joe carder?

Right? We're free men.

We're free men.
We'll hold our own elections!

We'll draw up a constitution for the
sovereign states of north and south Dakota!

Now, grandpa, you're not gonna
get into a political squabble...

Before we even got our feet on the ground.

You know what they're trying to do? They're
trying to divide Dakota into two states!

The only reason's so they can send four
republican senators back to Washington...

Instead of just the two they're
supposed to have! Now, take it easy.

Hey, Mr. carder!
We made it!

Hello, Mr. carder!

Another good republican
family come to join us.

Oh. Oh.

Why, thank you, sir.

Ah, Ernie stubbins at your service.

Alice. Oh!

You made it. Good. Oh, how are you?

Alice, uh, this is Ernie
stubbins, one of our local... yeah.

We already swapped names
and done our howdies.

Alice, uh, Mr. Wrenn, the
president of the school board.

I told Mr. Wrenn that you might
be interested in a teaching position.

Miss bower, it's a pleasure. If
you'll come this way, my dear,

I'll see that you're signed
up. Oh, well, we just got here...

And I haven't even, uh...
Miss bower,

our school is closed for lack of a teacher.
We can't afford to waste another day.

Oh, excuse me, Mr. Wrenn.
Uh, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin bower.

How do you do? How do you do?

Mr. Wrenn is president of the
school board. Oh, and their family.

Hello, Mr. Wrenn.

I've located a house for
you, Mr. bower. Good.

It's out on rapid creek.
It's not new, but it's big.

So, I guess you'd better get signed
up here in town. Save a trip back, huh?

This won't take long. Then I must get word
to the children that school opens tomorrow.

Would you wait just
a minute, Mr. Wrenn? I'll be right back.

Frank?
Yeah? Yeah?

Carry on for a few minutes, will you please?
I'll be right back. Who, me? All right.

All right, all you children wait here
with grandpa. All right.

But let's just look at the national situation
and consider where we're drifting...

If something isn't done to
clear up the mess in Washington.

What mess?
What are ya talkin' about?

Let me ask you.
Let me ask you.

What has grover Cleveland ever
done to reduce the federal surplus?

Yeah! He just goes on...

Collecting his tariff and piling more
and more dollars into the treasury.

That's right!

Think what it will be
like in another 50 or 75 years.

Right. Every dollar in the United
States piled up in Washington!

We're gonna have the richest government...

And the poorest people
in the history of the world!

We've got to remember to
send men back to Washington...

Who aren't too tightfisted to
spend a dollar now and then. Right?

In the frozen winter of '76

In a place
called valley forge

Came a time
for a man of destiny

And his name
was general George

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

'twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

In 1861, our ship
of state was sinkin'

Again came a man of destiny

A man by the name of Lincoln

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

'Twas a time for a man and
he was the man for the time

In our land today there's
a man who's tried and true

He's what this country needs
but it's up to me and you

Stephen grover Cleveland is the man
this country needs -

Let's put it over
with grover

Don't rock the boat give him
your vote

Let's keep our country
in clover

It's up to you
he'll follow through

He made the white house
shine like a lighthouse

Over our 38 states

1889 is the time
to fall in line

behind one of destiny's
greatest statesmen

Stephen grover Cleveland is
the man this country needs

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Hold
it down! Get down from that wagon!

Look, there's no reason to
get upset. Oh, yeah?

This is all just kind of in fun.

Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!

Look, this is a real fine,
talented family: The bowers.

Now wait!
They've had a long trip.

And, as I've told you before,
they're gonna be settling down here.

- Gonna be our neighbors.
- That's a mighty odd sense of humor!

Come to a statehood rally in Dakota
and sing about grover Cleveland!

You own the streets here, do ya?

Keep 'em reserved just for speeches
by Republicans?

I kind of thought this was a free country!

Yeah, that's a good one. "I
thought this was a free country."

That's a good way to put it!

- All right, grandpa. don't you think you've said enough?
- No, not nearly enough!

I'm gonna find out if we're still
in the United States of America,

or if we made a wrong turn back there
somewhere! You should have turned.

Now turn around and go back home!

We don't want ya here!

It isn't going to do any harm if they
sing a little song about grover Cleveland.

Do you think that's all it would
take to get him reelected?

No!

Let me tell you somethin'!

Grover Cleveland's gonna be reelected
by the biggest landslide in history!

Well, that's what makes horse races.

Well, I'll bet ya!
I'll bet ya!

I'm not a bettin' man.

Aw, come on!
Come on!

Wait a minute. In the newspaper
business, you can't afford to be.

- Wound up, I'll tell ya that.
- All right, I'll tell ya what I'll do.

I'll give you a free ride down
this here street in a wheelbarrow...

If Benjamin Harrison wins.

That's right.

But now, listen, listen! But you give
me a ride if grover Cleveland wins!

You can afford that, can't ya?

Come on, carder! Come on, Joe!

All right, Mr. bower! I'll take
ya up on that!

Oh, mama, I feel terrible not
helping you with all these things.

It's just so hard to get ready.

Don't worry about me, dear.
I'm getting along just fine.

Grandpa's using your dresser
mirror to shave.

I hope we make a lot of friends. Me too.

You're just starting to put on your hat?

Why don't all of you go on ahead?

Don't worry about me.
I'll be there.

Yes, Alice, dear,
I think that's a very good idea.

Come on, children, now. Off to
school. Come on now. Good-bye, mama.

Got your lunch? Got your
handkerchief? Bye, mama.

Good-bye. Oh, Quinn,
do stop eating. Bye, mama.

Good-bye, darling.
Bye.

Good-bye. Now, mind
your manners. Bye.

Say, I'm all done with that
mirror now, if you want it.

No, grandpa. This is all right. It's fine.

Say, this thing Joe carder's
talkin' about yesterday,

that they gonna set up
their own state government...

If the president and the
congress don't do it for 'em.

Grandpa, please, not now. Now, you best
listen 'cause something's being started...

That could hurt a lot of
people. A person, place or thing:

Boy, dog, St. Louis, chair. Anytime men think
they're gonna turn agin the president...

And the congress, take the law into their
own hands... A pronoun replaces a noun:

And set up their own government,
he, him, she, it, they, us.

Then there's gonna be trouble.

A verb is a word that denotes
action or state of being.

Grandpa, that will do!

Well, I'm just tellin' her
for her own good.

Better off if she got somebody else.

Ah, say, that young cowboy that
held that horse for ya yesterday.

What's his name again?

Um, Ernie stubbins?

You remember his name, huh?

Sure is a handsome devil, ain't he?

Well, I don't know.

Yeah. Big he-man type.
You know, I like that.

Um, final inspection.
Oh, just lovely, dear.

Wish me luck, mama.
Oh, you'll be fine, Alice.

Grandpa, I love you.
Thank you.

If I said anything that
upset ya, I didn't mean it.

I just don't want to see ya get in
over your head before ya realize it.

Oh. Oh, I'm glad I caught you.

Good morning,
Mrs. bower. Mr. bower.

Alice, there's been
a little problem come up.

It's a technicality, really,
about your credentials.

The school board wants to meet with you and
ask a few questions before you start teaching.

Before I start teaching?
Well, that's less than an hour.

You'll have to call
off school, just for today.

I don't understand.

I thought everything
was taken care of yesterday.

They told me that...

By now the children
are probably on their way.

Mr. bower, uh, you know where
the schoolhouse is, don't you?

Say, this thing you were
talking about yesterday...

About how you were going to set up your own state
government... grandpa, same rules as before.

There'll be no discussing
politics in this house either.

Do you think you could go to the
schoolhouse and send the children home?

Tell them there won't be any
school today after all. Do I think...

Thank you, sir.
Ah...

I'll bring her back, Mrs. bower. And it's nothing
to be concerned about, just a technicality.

All right.

Whoa. Whoa.

I just want to show you the place
I wrote you about. Remember?

But I don't think we should
if the school board is waiting.

Alice, there are a couple of
ladies on that school board...

That wouldn't get to a meeting
before 10:00, no matter what.

It's the "what" I'm worried about.
Look, it's nothing, believe me.

Mr. Wrenn happened to hear
about the ruckus in town yesterday...

When your grandfather sang
his grover Cleveland song.

Oh, what's that got to do with
me? I guess he wants to talk to you.

Just to make sure that you're
not inclined to stir things up.

Well, that's a very odd thing.

Maybe he wants to make sure
it doesn't run in the family. Oh?

Come on!

Wait.

There. Oh, it is beautiful.

But let's come back some other time. Why?

Well, we want to be there when
the school board is ready to meet.

Then I have to
get back and help mom unpack.

Well, 'cause there are floors to be
scrubbed and dishes to be washed...

And-and-and...

I want to plan more for my
first day at school.

And...

'bout time
'bout time

We had a little taste
of wastin' time

Like lovers do

I'll waste a little time
alone with you

'Bout time we two

Were livin' out a lovely
dream come true

'Bout you, 'bout me

'Bout love

'Bout time, 'bout time

We spent a little time
with no one near

To watch me while

I say a little somethin'
in your ear

'Bout how I care

'Bout how I want
to make my feelings clear

'Bout you, 'bout me

'Bout love

We're in deep water, darlin'

Clear over our head

'bout time to either sink
or swim let's swim

'Nuff said

'Bout time, 'bout time

We didn't have
to always steal a kiss

'Bout time, 'bout time

I had my arm around
your waist like this

My whole life through

I wanna make you feel
the way I do

'Bout you, 'bout me

'Bout love

We're in deep water,
darlin'

Clear over our head

'Bout time to either
sink or swim

Let's swim
'nuff said

'Bout time, 'bout time
'bout time, 'bout time

We should be pickin' out
a weddin' day

July
no, June

My folks were married
in the month of may

'Bout now, 'bout all

That's left to do
is let the secret out

'Bout you, 'bout me

'Bout us, 'bout we

'Bout your love

And mine

'Bout time. 'Bout time.

So, there's gonna be no school
today and ya might as well all go home.

What's the matter, honey?
You get hurt?

Somebody bump you?

What's your name?
Edna.

What are you crying for, edna,
if you haven't been hurt?

I memorized a piece to speak...

And got dressed up...

And I slept all night...

With my hair put up in rags...

And now...

There's gonna be no school.

Why don't you speak it for me?

'Cause we ain't in school.
That's what I learned it for.

Well, now, wait a minute.

There ain't no reason why we
couldn't have just a little bit of school.

But you said, "go on home."
What I meant...

I didn't mean right now.

I didn't say,
"go home right now."

I never said that.

Hey!

Come on back here, all of you!
Where you goin'?

Get back here!
Don't go tryin' to sneak off...

The minute my back is turned!

You told us to go. You said
there wouldn't be any school today.

Yeah! I was just testin' you, that's all.

You gonna believe anybody that
comes along, no matter what they tell you?

You got a lot to learn, boy.
You better stay around.

All right, sit down now.
Come on. Sit down.

Come on, get your seats.
Sit anywhere.

Hey!

Well, now, this here, as most of
you know, is the first day of school.

And, for the time bein',
I'm gonna be your teacher.

What? Now, we're gonna have...

Just a few little things,
and then I'll let you go home.

Now, little edna here,
she's learned a piece to speak,

and she's gonna come right up in
the front, and she's gonna speak it.

And you're gonna pay attention.

You don't need to wave good-bye.
We ain't goin' no place.

I wanna ask you something.

What's your name, son?
Johnny dejohn.

- All right. What you want to ask?
- Are you a regular teacher?

Well, no, my granddaughter Alice,
she's gonna be your regular teacher.

I'm just fillin' in for the time bein'.

What I want to know...
Would you set yourself down?

Now, you go ahead, honey.
We're all listenin'.

The mountain and the
squirrel had a quarrel.

The former called the latter,
"little prig."

Bun replied, "if I am not so large as you,

"you are not so small as I.

"If I cannot carry mountains on my back,

neither can you crack a nut."

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Oh, that's fine!

That's fine.

Something bothering you, Johnny?

I was trying to find out, sir... did
you graduate from the eighth grade?

Do you have a certificate to show
you're a regular, qualified teacher?

Well, now, I'll tell you this, boy.

If I know something you don't
know, then I'm qualified to teach you.

Providing, of course,
you got sense enough to learn.

Could I ask,
sir, have you ever taught before?

Well, yes, you might say so.

I recollect a time
there was about 50 men...

I learned them all to shoot and take care of
their rifles. I was the only teacher they had.

But in school?
That was in the army.

In the civil war! Right there's
the first thing I'm gonna learn ya!

The proper name is "the war between
the states," 'cause that's what it was!

You can look in the history books.

They call it the civil war.
What about that? Yeah!

I don't need to look in no books!

I was there, Shiloh to appomattox,

and you can take my word,
there weren't nothin' civil about it!

That's 'cause you were a ringtail rebel!

Otherwise, you wouldn't object
to it being called the civil war!

I done my fighting for the confederacy...

And general Lee, if that's what you mean.

I thought so.
I knew it from the start.

The important thing ain't what you know from
the start, it's what you learn goin' along.

We should have learned
one lesson from that war:

About our country staying united!

Abraham Lincoln said, "a house
divided against itself cannot stand."

Folks from Lincoln's own party...

Want to divide up Dakota,
the north from the south.

It just don't make sense.

My father says majority rules,

and they voted to make it two states.

You put your
finger on it right there when you says...

They voted on it.

But who's gonna run this state
after us old codgers is gone?

It's gonna be you young people,
that's who! But anybody ask you to vote?

No! No, sir.

They try to tell you they voted on it!

And you got no say-so!

That's your idea?

Just sit back and let them
chop the wagon in two...

When you know it's gonna be you
that's got to drive it?

How can we do anything about
it if we're not old enough to vote?

Yeah!

There's always ways to do things
once the body puts his mind to it.

I recollect a boy, wasn't much
bigger than you are, if at all!

When the war between the north
and south had only just begun,

a little fella ran away
and joined up with his drum.

He became a drummer

In a rifle company

The youngest
bravest drummer boy

In history

'Cause he kept

Drummin', drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin'
drummin', drummin'

Unafraid
he held his ground

Drummin'
drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin' while the shot and
shell was burstin' all around

In the middle
of a battle

That looked
like sure defeat

All
the ranks began to break

And someone yelled
"retreat"

But not that
little drummer boy

He stood there
like a stone

And played and played
the battle roll

All alone

Yes, he kept

Drummin', drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin'
drummin', drummin'

Unafraid
he held his ground

Drummin'
drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin' while the shot and
shell was burstin' all around

When the soldiers that
were fleeing drumming

Heard his drum and saw
that sight drumming

It was almost like a
miracle drumming

Their fear it turned to
fight keep it drumming

And how they fought and
how they won drumming

Is history today
drumming

Because that little
drummer boy showed the way

Yes, he kept drummin'
drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin', drummin', drummin'

Unafraid, he held his ground

Drummin', drummin', drummin'

While the enemy
kept a'comin'

Drummin' while the shot and
shell was burstin' all around

They say a rose that
blooms in summertime...

Must die when winter comes,

but the memory of its perfume lives...

Like the memory of those drums.

Well, now the war between
blue and gray is fadin' in the past,

but the courage of that drummer boy...

Is something that will last.

Wasn't that Johnny Shiloh?

Yeah, I guess that's what some
called him after... he was a yankee.

- He didn't fight for the confederacy.
- I never said he did.

But he was an American.
He didn't sit around and say,

"I'm only a little boy. What
can I do?" I'll tell my pa,

"if I'm old enough to help
with the milking,

I'm old enough to have
some say about things!"

And we gotta keep talkin', talkin', talkin'
like he kept drummin', drummin', drummin'!

What are you trying
to do, Mr. bower?

Get Alice fired before she starts?

Oh, hold on... moving
in, taking over a school.

I didn't exactly take over. I asked
you to send the children home,

to tell them there wouldn't
be any school today.

Now, Joe... the young'uns
were already there.

Most of them was all gussied
up, bein' the first day of school.

It just seemed a shame to send them home.

I don't think he meant any harm.

Right while you and I were meeting with
the school board, giving our word of honor...

That nothing like this would ever
happen! It won't ever happen again.

I figured if Alice knowed enough
to teach them for a whole year,

I knowed enough to teach them for
one day; Just part of a day, actually.

But that's just the point!
You didn't teach them!

Joe, please! You got them
cornered in the schoolhouse...

And then you delivered
a political oration...

About not dividing Dakota,
about making it one state!

It oughta be one state! If you had a
lick of brains, you'd see it for yourself!

Grandpa, that's enough!

I'm sorry, Mrs. bower.

Let's just hope none of the other
students go home and start talking.

I wouldn't figure on that!

Joe! Joe.

After this, if it's anything to do
with my family, just let me handle it.

Look, it isn't just about your family.

That's a public school.
I know.

I also know that you don't
know grandpa the way I do.

To you, he's probably just
a cantankerous old man...

That's not the point! He might be
the sweetest man in the whole world!

But if he's gonna
take over a public school,

inject politics into the classroom, then...

Then it's not just a little thing
that you can patch up at home.

I'll say one thing for you.

For a man that goes around preachin'
treason agin our United States government,

you sure make a big fuss over a little thing
like me teachin' school for a couple hours.

What do you mean
"treason," Mr. bower?

This business you keep talkin'
about settin' up your own government,

defying the president and the congress
that's been elected by the people!

Mr. bower, I don't mind you arguing politics,
so long as you don't do it in a schoolhouse.

You're entitled to your own opinion,
even if it is completely ridiculous!

But when you go around, start
accusing people of treason...

Joe, stop it! Grandpa,
get back in that house!

I don't care if he is your grandfather,
he's not gonna accuse me of treason!

It ain't just my idea. It's in the
Democratic digest! Grandpa!

The president himself
may send troops... be quiet!

I'm asking you as nicely
as I know how, please leave.

Alice. Alice.

No!

Best thing could have happened for Alice,

break it off with a man like that.

Cause her nothing but heartache
the longer she knowed him.

I... think it's time
for the two of us...

To have a little talk.

In here as good a place as any.

Remember the last time
I took you to the woodshed?

When you fought that barros
boy and bloodied his nose.

Never forget how you kept
a'wigglin' around.

I had me a big old kindlin' stick,

but mostly it kept
a'whangin' away in the air,

never connectin' with nothin'.

And all the time you was
a'howlin' like a banshee.

I'm gonna tell you something.

Most of the time I was missin' the purpose.

This isn't gonna be easy.
Just don't know how to say it.

"This is gonna hurt me
more than it does you,"

is the customary way to start off.

Least ways, that's how
I always got into it.

You know, I had a hunch
you never listened to me.

Pa...

I have tried, all the years
that you've been with us,

to make you feel
welcome... wanted.

And you have been.

There have been times when, well,
I've overlooked things that you've done...

More than I would for any
other member of the family.

What kind of things? But I won't have
you making trouble for Alice and Joe.

Me cause trouble?

Joe carder's making his own
trouble; More than he realizes.

Thinks just 'cause he runs that
little no-account newspaper...

I want you to promise me one thing:

That you will never again
argue politics with Joe carder.

Well, now, it weren't just me.

Don't you ever say one word to him about
whether Dakota should be one state or two.

Suppose he says something first?

I'm not talking about him, I'm
talking about you. I'm talkin' about him!

What do you think I'm gonna do? Just sit like
a ninny and not say nothin' if he pops off?

I've said my say.
You've heard me.

That's the way it's gonna have to be.

Now, that's the way it ain't gonna
have to be. I'll tell you that much.

If you think I'm gonna give
up my right of free speech...

That men fought and died for...

Just so Joe carder can have
everything his own way...

Will you listen to me? You think
I'm gonna sit like a bump on a log...

Whilst maybe my own
granddaughter is fixin' to marry some...

Benedict Arnold!
I'll tell you what I think!

If you're gonna remain here
as a member of this family,

then you better start to
exercise a little self-control...

Just the same as everybody else!

You said that.

If'n I'm gonna stay here?

Every time I... hello, grandpa.

Hello, grandpa. Mine is shinier than yours.

That has a little dent on it though.

Grandpa, what are you doin'?

I know when I ain't wanted.

I don't have to be hit on the head...

With a 10-foot pole.

What are you talking about, "not wanted"?

I ain't so old or so feeble
or so hard up that...

I have to stay with folks
that don't want me.

Calvin, what's going on here?

I just made a very reasonable
request of grandpa, no more.

Actually, a lot less than I might make
any day of any member of this family.

But i...
Excuse me, Katie.

Grandpa, please don't go.

Grandpa, you can't leave!

How can we practice or anything?

Grandpa,
please don't go! You can't!

Grandpa, please.

Grandpa, please! Grandpa, please don't go!

Please, grandpa.

Calvin, what did you do to him?

All I did... I asked him not
to argue politics with Joe.

Then you better get it
straightened out right now,

before he gets his neck
bowed any more than it is.

It took me a long time, Katie, before I
finally got around to saying anything.

I don't believe I've been unreasonable,
and I'm not going to back down.

But...

I guess you know best.

Grandpa, please don't go!

Thanks, Katie, for a lot of things.

I'll be seeing you again sometime.

Grandpa, please don't go!

Please, grandpa!

Grandpa, don't go!
Please, grandpa!

Papa, you've got to stop him.
You can't let him go.

We love you. Please, grandpa!

Please don't go. Grandpa.

Grandpa.
Grandpa.

Mayo...

Come back here.

If grandpa's goin',

then I'm goin' too.

Mayo.

Did you hear me?

I wish we hadn't even heard about Dakota,

Let alone...
Let alone comin' here.

I don't see any reason to review
what happened at the school that day.

Indeed, I think some of you parents have
already heard more than you care to hear.

I'm going to ask miss bower...

If she has any statements
she would care to make.

I wish you would all understand this:

Anything my grandfather did, he
did out of the goodness of his heart.

He didn't mean to do anything wrong.

You will all
have your opportunity to speak.

Now, shall we behave like adults
and allow miss bower to continue...

Without interruption?

And actually, I can't see the harm
in anything my grandfather did.

He merely... miss bower, do you
mean that you approve of what he did?

I mean...

If we're going to educate the children,

I don't see why...
I can't see any harm...

In letting them hear
both sides of the question.

What do you mean, "both sides"?

This question of statehood
has already been settled.

We've worked hard to get it settled.

That's not what I'm talking about.

Let me ask you one thing.

When your grandfather went there
to the school to poison the minds...

Mr. bower's too much of
a gentleman...

Mr. wampler, sit down!

To poison the minds of the children,

did he do so with your
knowledge and consent?

I knew where he was going, yes,

But I don't think he poisoned any minds.

Now, wait just a minute!
Let me get one thing straight!

I was the one that sent
her grandfather there...

To the schoolhouse that
morning. You were?

Not Alice. Not miss bower. Alice?

Joe, you promised. I'm not
gonna watch you get ripped apart...

For something that wasn't even your fault.

Don't say another word.
You just don't realize.

Your board questioned
this young teacher extensively.

She assured us that nothing of thi...

Well, who invited him here?

What's he doing here?

Of all the nerve!

Now that Mr. bower is here,

I'd just like to ask him
a couple of questions.

So would we. Yeah, we would too.

Isn't it true, Mr. bower... no! Stop it!

There's no need to go on
with your meeting any more.

And there's no need to vote
on whether or not to fire me...

Because I quit, as of right now.

Good. That's good.

Alice, you're being foolish.

Maybe I don't know your
grandfather as well as you do,

but even he wouldn't want you to
take the blame for something that he did.

Don't you understand anything at all?

He left because he thought
we didn't want him...

I'm all for family loyalty.
I think it's a wonderful thing.

But there are limits to all things!

Including my Patience!

Now, will you just leave me alone?

Alice, will you listen?

Whoa!

May I escort you up the street, miss bower?

Delighted, Mr. stubbins.

Until such time as we can
find another teacher,

meanwhile, the school will be closed.

Now, if there's no further business
to be brought before the board...

I got something to say.

I will not have this meeting...

Turned into another
political debate or debacle!

What I got to say, I don't think
anybody's gonna argue with.

If we was to pick out the worse
thing that could possibly happen,

that would be to have
that school closed again...

When it just barely got open.

Yeah, that's right.

The point is...

If I'd have took time
to thought about it...

I'd have realized I was doin' wrong.

Movin' into that school that way,

passin' on ideas that
I happen to believe in.

Well, I tell you,

that's been one of my troubles...

All my life.

I don't generally stop and think...

'Til after it's too late.

But this time I got it
all thought out ahead,

and I'd like to make you
just a little proposition.

What kind of a proposition?

What kind of a proposition?

Well, you get hold of Alice and talk
her into takin' the job back as teacher...

And you'll keep that school open.

That's a good idea. That's fair.

And I give you my solemn promise,

I won't say one other word
about politics...

Or whether Dakota
oughta be one state or two...

Until the whole thing
has been settled for good.

And then there ain't much use
to say nothin' after that.

He is absolutely right!

It ain't locked.
Just give a little push.

Just come over to tell you
that both Katie and I think...

It was a fine, generous
thing you did this morning.

We were proud of you.

Goin' somewhere?

I thought maybe.

Any place special in mind?

You figure it'd be easier
just to run off...

Rather than to stay here
and face it day by day.

I just wonder what people...

What people might say, that's all.

You haven't forgotten that bet you made with
Joe carder the first day we came to town.

Some of the boys have got a wheelbarrow
all decorated up, ready for the payoff.

Seems like if you left town now,

they might say that you were
running out on a bet.

They probably figured
you were afraid you'd lose.

Afraid I'd lose!
Do you want to know something?

In my whole life I've never been more...

Well,

I can't discuss that without gettin' mixed
up in something I promised not to talk about.

Oh, and another thing. The family
band has been invited to play...

At the rapid city election carnival,

the night the returns come in.

Trouble is, we haven't had
a band practice since you left.

Confound it, Calvin! You're
supposed to be the head of the family.

You ought to see to it.

The whole family's been kind of upset.

Upset or not, that don't matter!

You gonna have a band, you
got to practice, practice, practice!

Mostly we need you, pa.

Why don't you come home where you belong?

I know you'd let me wait my
life out, you'd never give in.

So I'm askin' you.
Please?

For Katie and the children...

And me.

What do you say?

Seems like if we was to get
started instead of standin' here talkin',

maybe we'd get there in time for supper.

That election night thing is gonna be our
first real chance to show off the family band.

West of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri

West of the
wide mo west of the wide mo

West of the wide Missouri

You'll work all day
'til sun goes down

West of the wide Missouri

Then everybody comes to town
west of the wide Missouri

Hoedown music starts to play

You whoop it up
'til the break of day

Then it's back
to stackin' hay

Then it's back
to stackin' hay

West of the wide Missouri
west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri

West of the wide mo
west of the wide mo

West of the wide Missouri

The gals have eyes that twinkle
and shine west of the wide Missouri

They kiss as sweet as dandelion
wine west of the wide Missouri

Eastern ladies may be fine
delicate and feminine

But every gal's
a Valentine

Every gal's a Valentine
west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri
west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide mo
west of the wide mo

West of the wide Missouri

Love's a treetop
towering thing

West of the wide Missouri

Every man becomes a king
west of the wide Missouri

Even in a gingham gown a
gal's a queen without a crown

The day she settles
dilly-aye down dilly-aye

Dilly-aye, dilly-aye down
west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri
west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide mo
west of the wide mo

West of the wide Missouri

Fellas don't wear
citified clothes

West of the wide
Missouri

But, oh, they know
their do-si-dos

West of the wide
Missouri

Eastern fellas may be slick smell
as sweet as a peppermint stick

But the boys that make us
dilly-aye tick

The boys that make us
dilly-aye tick

Are west
of the wide Missouri

West of the wide
west of the wide

West of the wide Missouri

West of the wide west of the
wide west of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri

West of the wide Missouri

West of the wide
west of the wide

West of the wide Missouri

My compliments.

And ours to both of you.

Hey, you might as well give up.

You're never gonna learn him how to dance!

I think he's sweet.

Aww! That's enough!

First reports!
First reports!

They just come in!
First reports!

Just fragmentary, scattered
returns from New York.

For Benjamin Harrison...

337.

For grover Cleveland...

294.

Delaware, with less than two percent
of the vote in: Yes? Yes, come on.

- Harrison... 219.
- Come on!

Cleveland...

348.

If Harrison can't even carry Delaware,
he's got no chance!

Let's put it over
with grover

Don't rock the boat
give him your vote

Give your vote to a man
who's a leader of men

Let's put
Stephen grover over

Over again

Never said a word, not a word.

Mr. bower.
Frank. Mr. Wrenn.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Now, Cleveland says
the future looks bright

Yes, that's right
the future looks bright

Ah, that's politics

The dollar is sound
and the market is right

Yes, that's right
the market is right

Ah, that's politics

Harrison says the market
is right the dollar is sound

The future looks bright

Ah, ah, ah
that's statesmanship

No democrat politician, he.

A great republican statesman.
An inspiration to us all!

Oh, Benjamin Harrison

He's far beyond comparison

He'll keep our land
a Garrison

Of life and Liberty

Cleveland promises
no new states

No new states
no new states

Ah, that's politics

No new senators
low tax rates

Low tax rates
low tax rates

Ah, that's politics

Harrison promises
two new states

Four new senators
low tax rates

Ah, ah, ah
that's statesmanship

Ha! Statesmanship? A giant!

A great man! The future
president of the United States!

Grover! Over here!

Oh, Benjamin Harrison

He's far beyond comparison

He'll keep our land
a Garrison

Of life and Liberty

Grover Cleveland grover
Cleveland grover Cleveland

Harrison says that his moustache is bright!

Stand back!
Stand back!

More returns!
More returns!

Wait a minute, wait a minute!
Returns, returns!

Hey, Joe, come on! You owe
us a ride! Come on! Get in!

Come on, Joe! Doesn't mean
the end of our fight for statehood.

We've just begun to fight.

Kind of has a nice ring to it somehow.

Joe carder! Shh!

It's about time
me and you went for a little ride.

I'm afraid you're gonna have to walk!

That's a good one! "Afraid
you're gonna have to walk"!

I always said, for a newspaper publisher,
you'd make a good wheelbarrow jockey!

When the official word comes over the wire,

then we'll start paying
any bets, not before!

No, Mr. Wrenn.

I'm ready if you are,
Mr. bower. Come on. Ya-hoo!

Hold everything! Hold everything!

Hold everything.

What now? Harrison won.

It's Ben Harrison. Come on, cut it out.

Elected president.
That ain't even possible.

What does it
say? It's true.

True?
The electoral college...

Has named Harrison president.

What's some college got to do
about it? What about the votes?

That's right! That's not the point.

Our president is always named
by the electoral college.

That don't even make sense!
Right!

If Cleveland got the most votes,
he's got to be president! Right!

No! No!

That's the way it's set up,
in our constitution! We won!

Don't you know anything at all about
American history? don't you realize...

All I realize is that the
democrats elect a president,

then the Republicans cheat 'em out of it!

Oh, Benjamin Harrison

He's far beyond
comparison

He'll keep our land
a Garrison

Of life and Liberty

All right!
Listen!

Listen!
We beat you fair and square!

They got Harrison!

All right, let's get Cleveland!

Ah, come on, fellas!

Don't start anything! I can
keep playing all night if I have to!

Don't start anything!

Apparently, the next President of
the united states has been chosen.

And the future of Dakota has been settled!

And nothing we can do here now...

Is going to change things one iota.

Not one thing.

I know some of you have
been bitterly disappointed.

I want to pass along to you...

Something that was told me
many years ago...

By a man whom I have
respected and admired...

More than any man I have ever met.

A man who never wavered
in his conviction...

That we here together
can build the greatest...

United country
in the whole bloomin' world...

If you'll just remember one thing.

There's a time to stand up and
fight for what you believe in...

And there is a time to join
hands and work together,

or all the fighting doesn't mean a thing.

He's just makin' that up.

Wasn't no important man at all.
Just something I told him.

I know that this man...

Swallowed more disappointment
than any of you did tonight.

This was back in '65...

When he had just returned
home from appomattox.

My father, rensselaer bower.

Where is he? Where is he? Here he is!

Here he is.

And so I suggest that this
is a time for joining hands,

a time for making up.

Well, if he's gonna quote such a good
authority, I guess I can't argue with him.

All right, to lead off,
I'm invitin' Joe carder...

To come and get his wheelbarrow ride.

Hey, that a boy, Joe!
That a boy!

And I apologize for anything I might
have said that was out of line, at any time.

Alice!

We're in deep water, darlin'

Clear over our head

'Bout time to either
sink or swim

'Bout time, 'bout time

We put an end
to all our bickerings

'Bout time, 'bout time

We got around to more
important things

Like golden rings

And pickin' out
the perfect furnishings

For you, for me

For us

for we

For your home and mine

'Bout time! - 'Bout time! - 'Bout time!

News! Big news!

Quiet!
Listen, everybody!

News! Big news!
Listen!

Quiet, everybody!

Up! Up! Up!

Big news! Listen!

"President Cleveland announced tonight...

"He will Grant statehood
to north and south Dakota...

Before Harrison
takes office."

People! People!
Listen to me!

Listen to me!
This will do it!

Now we can send four more republican
senators to congress and give Harrison...

The edge he needs!

There's more!

All right, there's more.
Listen!

"He will also Grant statehood
to Montana and Washington."

Washington and Montana!
They'll both go Democratic!

You send four more
Republicans back to Washington,

we send four more democrats!

Wipe out every gain you've made!

We're right back where we started!

One thing for grover Cleveland:

He listens to the mandate of the people!

Ah, that's politics!

That's statesmanship!

And when the razzamatazz
of our brasses

Begins to bezaz in the air
something grand

Better get ready to hear

And better get ready to cheer
the one and only

One and only, one and only
one and only

One and only, genuine
original

Original family band

Encoded by dw817 (Aug 19th 2015)