Bryan vs Murphy Convention Reveals Political Struggle
A fierce convention clash pits Bryan against Murphy as delegates tire of a week-long fight. The report highlights a sensational attack on plutocrats and Tammany, Stanchfield’s sharp rebuttal, and Champ Clark's camp failing to block the New Jersey governor nomination.
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Stanchfield
Champ Clark
New Jersey
William Jennings Bryan
Charles I
Murphy
Tammany
Cardinal Gibbons
Bryan
Senator Kern
Judge Parker
National Committee
Kern
Parker
New York
Clark
Mack
Colonel Bryan
Democratic Party
Gage
Battle
Theodore A. Bell
California
Denver
Bell
Pattison
Ohio
Bryant
Congressman Brice
Virginia
Brice
Belmont
Ryan
Mr. Bryan
Harmon
Nebraska
Sulzer
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Stone
Missouri
Texas
Ilinois
John B. Stanchfield
Wax
Morgan
A. M. Dockery
Dave Francis
Danner
Wilnois
Bankhead
Oscar Underwood
Foss
Francis
Tammany Banch
Fitzgerald
Baltimore
Senator Reed
Princeton
Judge Westcott
Baldwin
Connecticut
Murry
Wilson Delegente
Oklahoma
Willian H. Taft
Norman H. Mack
Taft
James
President Taft
Roosevelt
South
Broad
Moham medanism A Manichaean Look at Islam in 1912 Baltimore
The piece reviews Mohammadanism as a historical religion, noting its founder Mohammed born in Mecca, his alleged revelations, conquests, and views of Jesus and Christianity. It describes God as a single lawgiver, salvation through works, predestination, and a heaven of sensual rewards, with strict treatment of women and a belief in a real bodily resurrection.
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Mohammeda
Mecca
Christ
Damascus
No Cave
Gabriel
Ife
Abu Bekr
Palestine
Syria
Asia Minor
North Africa
Europe
Constantinople
Gaul
Tadla
Sudan
Africa
Mohammed
God
Jesus
Heaven
Hell
Democratic Platform Highlights Include Tariff Reform and Anti Monopoly
The platform calls for revenue tariffs only, downwards revision of duties on essentials, and gradual reduction to protect industries. It urges stronger enforcement of anti trust laws, action to crush private monopolies, income tax via constitutional amendment, direct senatorial elections, presidential primaries, and rejection of campaign contributions by corporations. It supports one term, rate regulation of railroads and communications, banking reform for distress relief, and study of rural credit. Also pledges flood control for the Mississippi, national post road aid, Alaska rights, land conservation action, agricultural support, anti gambling in farming, merchant marine growth, pure food measures, civil service reform, and imperialism opposition.
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United States
Europe
Mississippi Valley
Philippines
Alaska
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Kentucky
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Thomas F. Ryan
August Belmont
Senator Stone
Reed
Tion City
Sheraton
West
Nixon's
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Charles
de Belvidere
Congress
Belvidere
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Pompeii
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Henry Clayton
Alabama
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Monetary Commission