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Junior Chimp
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« on: September 06, 2005, 08:40:27 PM » |
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Mark Hanna, Ohio Senator and chief advisor to the late President McKinley, saw a doctor in February 1904 and was saved from a death by typhoid fever. At the height of his power and prestige, he challenged incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican nomination for President. He ended up winning it on the 7th ballot at the GOP Convention in Chicago. His running mate was the Progressive Republican Governor of Iowa, Albert B. Cummins.
Roosevelt refused to leave office without a fight, and declared the founding of the Progressive Party. At the new party’s convention in New York City, Roosevelt was unanimously dubbed the Presidential standard bearer. Governor Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin was chosen as Vice-President.
After the nomination of Conservatives Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and former Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia, millionaire Representative and newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst left the convention, decreeing, “The sell out to the gold standard.” The Socialist Party of the United States did not want the pro-Spanish-American War Hearst as its nominee, but Hearst’s influence and money won the day over Eugene Debs, and he was paired with Dr. Francis Townsend, a controversial left-winged physician and activist from California.
What a race the 1904 election will be? Who will take the crown of the Presidency? The stuff shirted, but very wealthy, Hanna Campaign? The popular Progressive President? Could the Democrats, weakened by in-fighting between “Gold and Silver” Democrats, pull off the biggest upset in U.S. history, or could the insurgent candidacy of William Randolf Hearst somehow turn the White House Red?
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