McDill critiques campaign finance and suffrage flaws in 1900s discourse
The piece argues money politics outweighs logic in choosing the next president, condemns vote buying and wealth-based disenfranchisement, questions Northern and Southern voting practices, and predicts a future battle over imperial policy and constitutional rights affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines. It contrasts Bryan and McKinley while defending universal suffrage and criticizing trusts and special interests.
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North Carolina
Bryan
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Ohio
McKinley
Hanna
Roosevelt vs Farmers in Dickinson County Commentary
Abilene and Dickinson county residents recall cowboys as rough yet bold figures while criticizing Theodore Roosevelt for calling cowboys superior to farmers and mechanics. The column cites Roosevelt’s Cuba and Chicago remarks to argue that such praise degrades hardworking rural people and misreads moral character.
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Dickinson County
Abilene
Century Magazine
Far West
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Cuba
Chicago
New York
Pro-slash pamphlet attacks McKinley Roosevelt ticket
The excerpt denounces McKinley and Roosevelt as unfit for office, calling them a danger to the United States. It contrasts them with Bryan and Stevenson as “typical Americans,” urging readers to vote against the Republican ticket in the upcoming election. The rhetoric targets a female executioner reference to portray moral failure.
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United States
McKinley
Roosevelt
Bryan
Stevenson
Roosevelt Insults the Volunteers in War-Era Letter
The 1893 exchange shows Theodore Roosevelt as swaggering and conceited while Alger and Wheeler defend the Rough Riders. Roosevelt’s offhand critique contrasts with Alger’s restrained reply praising all volunteers and discouraging invidious comparisons.
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United States
Spain
Alger
Santiago
Wheeler
Rough Riders
Porto Rico
Regular Army
Volunteer Army
R. A. Ancer
Col. Roosevelt
Bryan wager cited by Evening World on Ohio carry
The Houston Fible Company of Kansas City reported a New York private message quoting The Evening World. The note states James Kilduff, a Pittsburgh steel man, has offered a $100,000 wager that Bryan will carry Ohio.
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Houston-Fible Company
Kansas City
New York
Evening World
James Kilduff
Pittsburgh
Bryan
Ohio
Election Proclamation by Anderson County Sheriff
I D M Moore sheriff of Anderson County Kansas proclaims a general election will be held at all precincts for national state county and township officers. Voters will elect presidential electors governor lieutenant governor secretary of state auditor state treasurer attorney general state superintendent and more. A constitutional amendment proposal will also be submitted. Given this 2010 day of September 1900.
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Conway Mambilall
Inauras
Borkin
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M.S. Parnes Judicial
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I. D. M. Moore
Anderson County
Kansas
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Supreme Court
Kanana
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