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Presidential vote totals and political critique from 1908 era
The report lists Michigan totals for Taft 7 637 676 Bryan 6 393 182 Debs 448 453 Chafin 241 252 Hisgen 83 186 Watson 83 871 Gilhaus 15 421 with a grand total 14 852 238 surpassing 1904 by 1 341 531. It notes party shifts and cites treasury deficits by Cortelyou. It also covers stamps designs, a Vermont bill on false news, Roosevelt and Rockefeller reincarnation jokes, tariff changes, Idaho forestry aims, irrigation congress plans, preservation of pioneer structures in Washington, pneumonia precautions in Chicago, and the steamer Enterprise on the upper Columbia.
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Michigan
Taft
Bryan
Debs
Chafin
Hisgen
Independence
Watson
People’s
Gilhaus
Socialist-Labor
Prohibition
Independence Party