Editing Wide Awakes (section)

===Mission statement===
Typical Wide Awakes chapters also adopted an unofficial mission statement. The following example comes from the [[Chicago]] chapter:<ref>[[Franklin, Pennsylvania]] ''Repository and Transcript''</ref>

# To act as a political police.
# To do escort duty to all prominent Republican speakers who visit our place to address our citizens.
# To attend all public meetings in a body and see that order is kept and that the speaker and meeting is not disturbed.
# To attend the polls and see that justice is done to every legal voter.
# To conduct themselves in such a manner as to induce all Republicans to join them.
# To be a body joined together in large numbers to work for the good of the Republican Ticket.