13: Republican China, 1912 – 1949, Part 2.

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 12, Republican China, 1912 – 1949, Part 1.

He had been a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported Theodore Roosevelt's " Bull Moose " Progressive Party.

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He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party of 1912.

The Wilson – Marshall ticket easily won the 1912 election because of the division between the Republican Party and the Progressive Party.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

" Roosevelt declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination in February 1912 ; Taft soon decided that he would focus on canvassing for delegates and not attempt at the outset to take on the more able campaigner one on one.

Roosevelt and his group of disgruntled party delegates and members bolted from the party to create the Progressive Party ( or " Bull Moose ") ticket, splitting the Republican vote in the 1912 election.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

Wilson was able to win a landslide due to the Republican spilt in 1912 whereas in 1916 the Republicans were united in their bid to oust Wilson.

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 ).

In 1872, it supported Horace Greeley, a former Republican Party newspaper editor, and in 1912 the paper endorsed Theodore Roosevelt, who ran on the Progressive Party slate against Republican President William Howard Taft.

In May 1912 the legislative assembly moved from Nanjing to Beijing with its 120 members divided between members of Tongmenghui and a Republican party that supported Yuan Shikai.

From 1912 through 1948, the county remained predominantly in the Democratic party, although Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower took the county in the 1950s.

Several other papers came and went ; as of 1912, there were several newspapers in the county: the Republican, the Tribune, the Montezuma Enterprise, and the Bloomingdale World, as well as papers printed in Rosedale and Marshall.

In 1912, Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county with a 3. 06 % majority over its Republican opponent William Taft.

* Ada Mills, a Republican political activist was born in Prairie Grove in 1912.

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

The second incursion, in 1912, although better prepared did not succeed, due to the Spanish government, which was forced to cede to Republican diplomats the illegality of monarchist encampments in Galicia and disarmed the remaining combatants within its territory.

Though the initial bill did not pass, the Republican party platform of June 1912 endorsed the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission.

In 1912, a Republican Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty and created a Republic of China.

The Democratic Party, since the division of the Republican Party in the election of 1912, has positioned itself as progressive and supporting labor in economic as well as social matters.

The third convention, held in London in 1912 allocated the first radio callsigns for use by aircraft.

A multilateral international sanitary convention was concluded at Paris on 17 January 1912.

Another multilateral convention was signed in Paris on 21 June 1926, to replace that of 1912.

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.

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.

On the evening of June 22, 1912, Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the convention.

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.

President Theodore Roosevelt, in his " Charter of Democracy " speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional convention, stated " I believe in the Initiative and Referendum, which should be used not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative.

He became active in the national Republican Party and served as a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924.

The last state constitutional convention, held in 1912, gave the governor a line-item veto, but reduced the supermajority required for overriding the veto to three-fifths.

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.

In 1912, Clark was the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, coming into the convention with a majority of delegates pledged to him.

At the 1912 convention, Champ Clark was the first person to receive a majority of the votes who did not go on to achieve a two-thirds vote and the nomination.

Palmer defeated Pennsylvania's incumbent Democratic National Committeeman, Colonel, by a resounding margin of 110 to 71 at the State Party's annual convention in 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.

In 1912, while still serving at Antioch College, Fess was a delegate to the state constitutional convention as well as being elected as a Republican to the U. S. House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1913-March 3, 1923 ( 6th District 1913-15, 7th District 1915-23 ).

The second, at 63rd Street near Stony Island Avenue in the south side's Woodlawn community, hosted the 1896 Democratic National Convention, and the third, located at 15th and Wabash on the near south side, hosted the 1904 – 20 Republican National Conventions and the 1912 Progressive Party convention.

The regulars won the day handily at the Indianapolis convention of 1912, with a successful recall of IWW leader " Big Bill " Haywood from the SP's National Executive Committee and an exodus of disaffected left wingers following shortly thereafter.

In 1912 and 1916, he was a delegate to the national convention of the Progressive Party.

This militant tactic was presented by Paul and Burns at the 1912 NAWSA convention in Philadelphia to Anna Howard Shaw and other NAWSA leaders.

He supported Theodore Roosevelt's progressive views and was the keynote speaker at the new Progressive Party convention which nominated Roosevelt for U. S. President in 1912.

Hart was a devoted friend and follower of Theodore Roosevelt and was elected as a Roosevelt delegate to the Republican convention of 1912.

* Text of the 1912 convention