Atlasian Gentlemen's Psephological and Social Club - 1913

[ilikeverin]

Three hearty handshakes and a dashing smile to all for the creation of this Social Club!

The income tax is merely a feeble beginning.  A harbinger of the glorious socialist revolution that will sweep our nation. Simply look at the trends for the Socialist Party of the past few elections. Mr Debs shall be our President one day just as surely as our Lord Jesus Christ will one day return to earth.

Ye Olde PPP happens to disagree:

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By Jove.  I always knew Ye Olde PPP skewed to the secular side, but I had never expected to see those numbers so low.  Of course Jesus Christ will return to the earth.  I have hardly heard anyone dispute that thought, save those pernicious Reds and their misguided messiah, Eugene V. Debs.

I, for one, have been taking to reading the psychoanalytic papers out of Germany.  What fascinating insights they have gained on our day-to-day functioning!

[ilikeverin]

I will not hold with words against my mother! Allowing ladies to participate in the political process may as well make the latter more refined as the former more vulgar, assuming ladies' vaunted refinement is a natural condition at all rather than the result of the way our culture has grown. And the Negroes were made free men now this half-century gone and should by now be treated as such. But I suppose you have grown up in the South and so it is not really your fault that you should say such things.

Bully for you!  On this, at least, the Progressives and Socialists can agree.  We must spread democracy across the country and destroy the connection between politics and business (though not conflate the two like you Socialists argue for.  Hah!).  One of the best ways to achieve these goals is to extend franchise to the fairer sex.  Certainly their natural predilection towards fairness and honesty should serve our nation well.

[ilikeverin]

All I know is my fellow Ohioan Warren G. Harding will be a candidate for the U.S. Senate next year!

Whosoever wins the election will be a fellow Ohioan, Clevelandfan, as it is an Ohio Senate election. Pursuant to this discussion, I must say that I fully support recent efforts to amend the Constitution that we may popularly elect such officeholders.

And who leads that noble cause?  Why, none but the Progressive Party, of course!  I wonder when the Republican Party will just give up and admit defeat.  We Progressives are so bully about what we believe in that we are even nominating women candidates for Congress.  Wilson may have beat us this round, but Teddy'll lick him good in 1916, you mark my words.

[ilikeverin]

What a waste that the good Theodore Roosevelt did not win the Presidency in the last federal election. The Progressive Party will live on and shall perhaps elect a President one day.

Bully for you!  And that President will be Theodore Roosevelt, mark my words!

In other local news, skyscrapers continue to pop up in my hometown year after year. The lastest boasts an unbelievable 19 floors! I would not believe it had I not seen it with my own eyes. I have read in the newspaper that the Woolworth Company of New York City has erected a building that is 57 floors, though that must surely be an exaggeration. Though I do often wonder if God will soon strike it down as blasphemy as he did with the Tower of Babel. For centuries, the tallest buildings in the world were always houses of God. What right has man to deem mere commerce more substantial? I have no doubt that we are inviting Divine Judgement. My worries notwithstanding, here is a fine colored illustration of Memphis's newest goliath.

I certainly cannot believe the changes that are being executed near to the National Mall.  Why, they have finally selected a design for the memorial to the great Rail Splitter of Springfield!  I believe it to be far too ostentatious for a man of such modesty as Honest Abe, but unfortunately Congress is too busy catering to the whims of the monied interests to listen to men of erudition such as myself.