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Taft Nomination Triumph at Chicago Convention
Chicago ballots sealed Taft nomination on unanimous vote as Roosevelt supporters staged demonstrations. The columnist describes the seven hour session, the Roosevent surge, and the crowd’s fatigue to explain the Taft landslide and Roosevelt’s lingering influence.
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Lee P. Loomis
Chicago
Ill
Theodore Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Yorys
Republican Party
United States
Big Bill Taft
Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Vorys
la Follette
Wisconsin
Brutus
Rome
Caesar
Teddy
Coliseum
Blue Coats
Convention
Bryan
The
Law
Wabash Avenue
C. A. A. McGee
Robert M. La_ Follette
McGee
Wisconsin University
Senator Lodge
John R. Malloy
Columbus, Ohio
Alabama
Lincoln
Washington
Alice
Annex
Fairbanks
Iowa
W. E. Bliven
Miriam
Miss Bliven
J. W. Hackley
Woodstock
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Muscatine
Grinnell
College Town