Chapter 4 The Era of Primaries and Change in the Early Twentieth Century Democratic and Republican Parties, 1896 – 1928
“We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord,” the speaker thundered to the crowd of some 1,000 delegates and an even larger audience in attendance on Monday, August 5, 1912. A crowd estimated at some 8,000 by The Chicago Daily Tribune filled the old Chicago Coliseum on the near Southside. “We fight in honorable fashion for the good of mankind, fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes,” the speaker told his audience. The speaker paced back and forth on stage as he spoke to the delegates and his audience on the opening afternoon of their convention. Affixed ...
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