Literary Digest Straw Vote Totals Taft Ahead
The Literary Digest publishes a reader straw poll with Taft at 19 324 votes Bryan 14 712 and Chafin 949 from a total of 85 710 with scattered ballots. It notes 96 percent of readers are preachers lawyers and educated men and shows Bryan leading in Maryland Virginia West Virginia Missouri and California.
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New York
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Bryan
Chafin
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Virginia
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Missouri
California
Improvements Planned for Depot Street Storefronts
A historic depot street storefront will become a corner display with a large plate glass front. The corner entrance will open directly from the corner, adding extensive show windows. A rear Adams avenue entrance will be replaced by a centered door amid plate glass and another display case. Carpenters begin next Monday on the Anson building.
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Bryan ridicules Roosevelt in Lambertville address
In Lambertville New Jersey on October 23 Bryan joked about being greeted as a Democratic candidate. He referenced reports that the president removed Gompers from labor leadership and installed Senator Knox, saying he feared being named to someone else and read newspapers nervously.
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Organized Labor
Knox
Bryan’s Stand on Free Silver Drives Wedge in Democratic Ranks
The piece argues that William Jennings Bryan remains unreconciled with sound money Democrats who back free silver. It portrays his rejection of prominent rivals as non Democrats and warns that he will not accept them as party members, insisting they carry their baggage if they leave.
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Mr. Bryan
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Ble
D N C Chairman Calls Fund Claim A Bluff In 1920 Era
Chairman Mack of the Democratic national committee says his report of a leftover campaign fund of 900000 dollars was a bluff. He asserts the same about the Bryan campaign in what is described as an equal truth.
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Mack
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Bryan Urges Resistance to The Gold Standard
A quip quotes Mr. Bryan decrying the gold standard as having killed tens of thousands, prompting questions about who or what has suffered and what critics label as demagogues and fads in financial theory.
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Mr. Bryan
Candidate Brian Discovers Sharp End Of Roosevelt Big Stick
Candidate Brian reports finding a sharp and blunt end on the Roosevelt big stick, describing it as fitted with a guent pen and noting potential danger or mischief associated with the object.
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Brian
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