Clark Campaign Focuses on Sectarian Issue at Convention
The convention featured sharp clashes over sectarian questions and Charles Sumner Bird's role amid tensions with delegates and leaders over Bird's support for ex-Congressman McCall for Governor. Russell Wood as temporary chair questioned Bird's status as a party leader after last year's repudiation on the prohibition plank.
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Clark
Charles Sumner Bird
McCall
Bird
Russell Wood
Weight loss advertisement and political convention dynamics
An advertisement promotes oif of kerein capsules as a safe weight loss method by exercising outdoors and monitoring progress. The text shifts to a heated political convention scene discussing Mr Bird and Progressive support, including interruptions, a controversial newspaper headline, and a resolve offering respect to Mr Bird.
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Doherty
Bird
Patrick Anglin
Progressive split discussed at convention with Bird Walker noted
Norman comments on Bird and Walker changes and McCall support sparking a critique of party loyalty. Russell Wood cites past statements to highlight inconsistency while Hale defends principles over men and calls out platform tactics and Theodore Roosevelt loyalty.
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Walsh
Russell Wood
Bird
Mr. Walker
McCall
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Walker
Mr. Bird
Perrin
Progressive fight outlines effort to preserve party in 1916
The convention debated sectarian issues and backed a plan to keep the Progressive organization intact for 1916 to pressure the Republicans. Chairman Hale criticized Bird and Walker while endorsing Roosevelt as the likely Progressive candidate. Clark pressed for extending free vocational education and ending private-school funding, citing large untaxed private property and Protestant schooling.
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Chairman Hale
Hale
Bird
Walker
George Perkins
Massachusetts
Mr. Perkins
Clark
Ventions
Progressive Club
Republican Party
Wilson
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Harvard
Boston University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moody School
Committee On Credentials
Thore Credited for Pension Plank in Cambridge Letter
Joseph F. Wall of Cambridge corrects the Boston Post on Oct 2 coverage of non-contributory old age pensions. He notes Thore led the effort and that Cambridge ballots reflected the issue under his supervision and with AFL backing. He requests a print correction.
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Democratic Party
Wendell P. Thore
Edward PD. Collins
Mansfield
Thore
American Federation of Labor
Sterling
Boston
Cambridge
Fair Play
Post
Joseph FE. Wall
Decatur Street
Son Born to Composer F S Converse at Cross Ways
Oct 5 report from Westwood states Mrs Frederick S Converse gave birth at the Converse summer home Cross ways to a son, likely Edwin Winchester Converse, the seventh child and only living son of the renowned composer and his wife.
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Judge Callahan
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Kenneth MacDonald
McArthur
Norman
Theodore Roosevelt
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Bull Moose
Russell” A. Wood
Alvin G Weeko
Bunkum
Murray
G.O.R
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Nelson B Clark
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Col. Dohertys
Baldwin
W.P.B. Brooks & CO
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NEW Department
Adams
Marshall St
Union
Hanover
F. S. Converse
Tse
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William Tremont St. Neary
C. Gregor, Inc
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Julius Spencer Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cook
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Atlantic Ave
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Double Legal
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