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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

THE ELECTION OF 1916: Part Two - He Kept Us Out of War

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Both major parties have their conventions. The Democratic swashbucklers are at the podium, firing up a party to get excited about Wilson by linking him to a cause. One he didn't ask to be linked to. The Republicans get their party united, and toastmaster Warren G. Harding is fierce as he makes the case to dump Wilson. The Socialists also pick new candidates, a decision which may be as impactful as anything on Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 22nd, 1915, Kirkhirut, Indiana.

0:40.0

My dear Benson, how your communication of the 18th has just been received and carefully read.

0:48.0

In the closing paragraph, you assure me that you are not in the least irritated.

0:55.0

And yet I must conclude that you must have been at least a little bit

1:00.0

heated in what you had to say in answer to my letter. You doubtless preserved a copy, and if you will

1:07.4

look it over and note the number of eyes in it, appears to me strangely out of place yours fraternally

1:17.0

Eugene V. Debs

1:21.1

Eugene Debs had been the Socialist candidate for President in 1912, where we received

1:27.0

900,000, almost a million votes.

1:30.6

And just to put that in perspective, we are not talking about the tiny, you know,

1:35.2

socialist party of the United States that might have an office in a second floor

1:39.0

of Ashdabula, Ohio, or something like that. This is a serious movement.

1:43.7

900,000 votes is something like 10 million votes if you compare it to the election

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