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1912 and presidential
The 1912 primaries represented the first extensive use of the presidential primary, a reform achievement of the progressive movement.
His popularity as governor, and Indiana's status as a critical swing state, helped him secure the Democratic vice presidential nomination on a ticket with Wilson in 1912 and win the subsequent general election.
United States presidential election, 1912
Category: United States presidential candidates, 1912
Three advocates for a federal income tax ran in the presidential election of 1912.
The task-oriented Taft was oblivious to the political ramifications of his decisions, often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.
Wilson's popularity as governor and his status in the national media gave impetus to his presidential campaign in 1912.
The United States presidential election of 1912 was a rare four-way contest.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912.
A major goal of the party's bosses at the convention was to heal the bitter split within the party that had occurred in the 1912 presidential campaign.
In the 1992 election, he received 18. 9 % of the popular vote, approximately 19, 741, 065 votes ( but no electoral college votes ), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.
In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.
Campaign poster from his U. S. presidential election, 1912 | 1912 Presidential campaign, featuring Debs and Vice Presidential candidate Emil Seidel
He received 913, 664 write-in votes ( 3. 4 %), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 %, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. His time in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and appeared in his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters.
Category: United States presidential candidates, 1912
The Democratic Party's continued enchantment with the populist William Jennings Bryan led Hill to support Republican presidential candidates William McKinley ( 1896 and 1900 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1904 ), William Howard Taft ( 1908 and 1912 ).
Finally in 1912, the diameter of the star was established, the precedence of the colors in the presidential flag and decorative cockade was determined, setting the order as blue, white and red from top to bottom or from left to right of the viewer.
( Other laws include Law No. 2, 597 of 11 January 1912, concerning the colors and proportions of the national flag, the presidential sash and rosette or cockade, and Supreme Decree No. 5805 of the Ministry of the Interior, published 26 August 1927, sets the size of the national flag for use in buildings and public offices.
Founder Francis G. Newlands was an " avowed racist " who in 1912 mounted his presidential campaign on a platform that called for a constitutional amendment to disenfranchise black men and limit immigration to whites only.
In 1912 she helped start the new Progressive Party and supported the presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1912, Baker supported the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, which led to a close relationship between the two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation.
A year after the Act's passage, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912 was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a speech that " obstructed recruiting ".
Category: United States presidential candidates, 1912

1912 and elections
As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.
The 1912 elections were won by Manuel Bonilla, but he died after just over a year in office.
The January 1912 elections brought a Reichstag where the Social Democrats, opposed to military expansion, became the largest party.
In the 1910 Congressional elections, Democrats swept to power, and Taft's reelection in 1912 was increasingly in doubt.
To avoid a " runaway convention ", in which unexpected or damaging amendments could be considered, the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress ; on June 12, 1911, it passed in the Senate by a vote of 64 to 24, with 4 not voting, and on May 13, 1912, passed in the House by a vote of 238 to 39, with 110 not voting.
The results of the 1910 elections made it clear to the President that Roosevelt had departed his camp, and that he might even contend for the party nomination in 1912.
It was not a single nationwide election but a series of local elections that began on December 1912 with most concluding on January 1913.
To assure his re-nomination in 1912, he called a special 13-day legislative session and deflated his critics by bulldozing through such progressive reforms as rural school consolidation and primary elections.
The Social Democrats, who by the 1912 elections had become the largest party in the Reichstag seldom gave priority to army expenditures, building up its reserves, or funding advanced weaponry such as Krupp's siege cannons.
In the German federal elections the MPL received 229 votes in 1898 and 20 in 1912 in the Lyck constituency.
With the introduction of free, fair and confidential voting in elections based on universal adult male suffrage in 1912 the Party managed to win the general elections of 1916, when Hipólito Yrigoyen became president.
The only important political role of the South in presidential elections came in the 1912 election, when it provided the delegates to select Taft over Theodore Roosevelt in that year's Republican convention.
Following the Romanian elections of 1912, he became a parliamentarian with the Conservative-Democrat Party led by Take Ionescu, and five years later he became a member of the government of Ion I. C. Brătianu as Minister of Finance.
The party won commanding majorities in the 1909 and 1912 elections, almost shutting the Opposition out of the legislature.
Due to an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that there would be no elections for state officials in 1912, Hunt's first run for reelection did not occur till 1914.
He unsuccessfully ran for Parliament during the elections of that year ( and several others in succession ), being fully reinstated as a citizen in April 1912.
Sulzer had enjoyed Tammany Hall support as the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1912, but he quickly drew the ire of the powerful leader of that New York City organization, Charles F. Murphy, by refusing to accept party instructions on appointments, by seeking primary elections rather than nominating by convention, and other actions.
They lost the 1912 elections to the Conjunción Patriótica allince, and went on to finish second in elections in 1914, 1916 ( in which they won the same number of seats in the House of Representatives as the National Conservative Party, but won fewer seats in the Senate ) and 1918.
* Eugene V. Debs was a presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Party in 1900 and thereafter for the Socialist Party in four more elections: 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920.
After another decade of election losses, the Home Rule Party was disbanded after the elections of 1912.
He was also nominated in 1910, and in 1912, losing all those elections, but Democrat William Paul Jarrett was nominated and won the elections in 1922 and 1924.

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