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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Nov 30, 2022 15:04:18 GMT
DICTATOR BRYAN ONCE AGAIN SEIZES WHITE HOUSE, ALLISON, ROOSEVELT AND DEBS FURIOUS
That was the headline of the special election edition of the New York Times, a paper now with a strong Republican bias. The economy was doing alright, with decent growth. Henry Teller, the Secretary of State, had negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Bryan judges ruled the income tax constitutional, and the direct election of Senators was now guaranteed in a new Constitutional Amendment. Word was that Bryan even wanted to overturn the Electoral College. Overall, the United States remained prosperous under the Bryan dictatorship administration. The Republican Party was in further disarray, as the party had been reduced down to 12 Senate seats. The Socialist Party, however, made huge gains in the 1906 midterms, getting them a total of 22 Senate seats. The DNC led to an unanimous Bryan renomination, with John Worth Kern, the incumbent Governor of Indiana, as his new running mate. The RNC reluctantly nominated a compromise candidate, William Howard Taft, with James Schoolcraft Sherman as his running mate. The SNC (that’s what I’m calling the Socialist National Convention) nominated Eugene V. Debs once again. Now, the question is: will the PNC (you guessed it) reluctantly jointly nominate Taft, or will they nominate progressive silver man George Lawson Sheldon instead? (FPTP convention, if Taft is nominated by the PNC his running mate on the Progressive ticket will be Sheldon, if Sheldon is nominated his running mate will be William Edgar Borah.) Gerd von Rundstedt Jeanne d'Arc
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Nov 30, 2022 16:07:17 GMT
Also Warlord247 are you interested? Sorry to ping, but you are from Oklahoma so… |
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Post by Warlord247 on Nov 30, 2022 16:21:37 GMT
Also Warlord247 are you interested? Sorry to ping, but you are from Oklahoma so… It seems pretty interesting. I'm not from Oklahoma tho!!!  |
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Nov 30, 2022 17:49:20 GMT
Also Warlord247 are you interested? Sorry to ping, but you are from Oklahoma so… It seems pretty interesting. I'm not from Oklahoma tho!!! Oh yeah sorry, you’re from Texas. |
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Post by Warlord247 on Nov 30, 2022 17:53:46 GMT
It seems pretty interesting. I'm not from Oklahoma tho!!! Oh yeah sorry, you’re from Texas. No worries, I find it funny considering me and gerdy's competition lol |
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Nov 30, 2022 17:58:02 GMT
DICTATOR BRYAN ONCE AGAIN SEIZES WHITE HOUSE, ALLISON, ROOSEVELT AND DEBS FURIOUS
That was the headline of the special election edition of the New York Times, a paper now with a strong Republican bias. The economy was doing alright, with decent growth. Henry Teller, the Secretary of State, had negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Bryan judges ruled the income tax constitutional, and the direct election of Senators was now guaranteed in a new Constitutional Amendment. Word was that Bryan even wanted to overturn the Electoral College. Overall, the United States remained prosperous under the Bryan dictatorship administration. The Republican Party was in further disarray, as the party had been reduced down to 12 Senate seats. The Socialist Party, however, made huge gains in the 1906 midterms, getting them a total of 22 Senate seats. The DNC led to an unanimous Bryan renomination, with John Worth Kern, the incumbent Governor of Indiana, as his new running mate. The RNC reluctantly nominated a compromise candidate, William Howard Taft, with James Schoolcraft Sherman as his running mate. The SNC (that’s what I’m calling the Socialist National Convention) nominated Eugene V. Debs once again. Now, the question is: will the PNC (you guessed it) reluctantly jointly nominate Taft, or will they nominate progressive silver man George Lawson Sheldon instead? (FPTP convention, if Taft is nominated by the PNC his running mate on the Progressive ticket will be Sheldon, if Sheldon is nominated his running mate will be William Edgar Borah.) Gerd von Rundstedt Jeanne d'Arc BTW, if the PNC picks Taft this will actually be literally equivalent to the OTL 1908 situation. It’s almost like this was all planned since I started this thread…  |
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Dec 1, 2022 17:00:39 GMT
OK, George Lawson Sheldon wins. Just one last poll before we go into the 1908 election… The Republicans and Progressives, after the consecutive disasters of 1904 and the 1906 midterms, have considered forming electoral pacts and doing more joint nominations at the senatorial and gubernatorial levels. Charles Evans Hughes, elected under a joint nomination himself, has been very vocal about supporting a coalition against the Democratic Party. Will the GOP and Progressives form electoral pacts and do joint nominations in the 1908 Senate, House and Gubernatorial elections? Gerd von Rundstedt Jeanne d'Arc |
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Post by Gerd von Rundstedt on Dec 1, 2022 18:47:51 GMT
OK, George Lawson Sheldon wins. Just one last poll before we go into the 1908 election… The Republicans and Progressives, after the consecutive disasters of 1904 and the 1906 midterms, have considered forming electoral pacts and doing more joint nominations at the senatorial and gubernatorial levels. Charles Evans Hughes, elected under a joint nomination himself, has been very vocal about supporting a coalition against the Democratic Party. Will the GOP and Progressives form electoral pacts and do joint nominations in the 1908 Senate, House and Gubernatorial elections? Gerd von Rundstedt Jeanne d'Arc Yes. They need those if they are going to survive into the future. |
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Dec 5, 2022 5:44:11 GMT
Alright, electoral pacts are formed. Time for the 1908 general election. Bryan/Kern vs. Taft/Sherman vs. Sheldon/Borah vs. Debs/Hanford.
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Dec 5, 2022 5:49:41 GMT
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Post by Gerd von Rundstedt on Dec 5, 2022 12:43:53 GMT
Definitely open. It's fun to see who's ahead. |
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Post by Warlord247 on Dec 5, 2022 12:54:50 GMT
I think closed is better, more realistic
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Dec 8, 2022 3:18:26 GMT
As a compromise, from now on I will hold Presidential elections as closed and all other elections as open.
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Post by Josip Broz Tito on Dec 9, 2022 13:53:06 GMT
COMRADE DEBS WINS, NATION ERUPTS INTO CIVIL WARHe had done it. My God. Businessmen all across the nation are furious, as they support a new nation opposed to this new socialist experiment, consisting of Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, except for New York, as outgoing governor Charles Evans Hughes had convinced New York not to secede. The South, seeing Debs as a fire-breathing civil rights advocate, seceded from the United States, forming a second Confederacy, led by Ben Tillman. The West, disaffected by a candidate that only appealed to the urban laborer, also seceded. Debs tried to appease this group from leaving the Union by appointing outgoing President William Jennings Bryan Secretary of State, but this only brought Nebraska back to the Union column. This is the biggest upset since Bryan won back in 1896. The entire nation is still reeling from the aftershocks. My God.  ibb.co/6J02d8RGerd von Rundstedt Jeanne d'Arc Warlord247
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Post by Warlord247 on Dec 9, 2022 14:07:05 GMT
Just for clarification Josip Broz Tito, are the federal states or the United States under Debs control? |
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