Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman has died at 57. Sherman was the mayor of Utica, NY in his 20s, a Congressman for many years, and ...

Richard Mourdock, Republican candidate for the US Senate for Indiana, says he can’t “unring the bell” of his comments about rape pregna...

Grover Cleveland’s widow Frances (he married her when he was 49 and in the White House and she was 21 and he’d known her since she was an in...

President Taft says the issue in this election is “On the one hand prosperity and real progress; on the other a leap in the dark.” And any...

The Bull Moose Party is not doing well at establishing itself everywhere, perhaps not surprising given that it’s only about four months old....

With Taft not appearing on the California ballot, Tafties in the state are organizing in support of Woodrow Wilson. Headline of the Day...

A lot of unverified claims continue to be made about the Balkan War, with a lot of exotic-sounding place-names. Kirk-Kilisseh, for example,...

President Taft tells the Maine Teachers’ Association that teachers should get pensions. The White House’s exterior is washed for the first...

Do you suppose that when people like Republican senatorial candidate for Indiana Richard Mourdock think about rapes that result in pregnan...

Rebel General Félix Díaz, nephew of the former president-for-life of Mexico, is captured by government troops. He was depending on rather ...

Wilson’s running mate, Gov. Marshall of Indiana, sends the state National Guard, with fixed bayonets, to occupy the Mineral Springs race tra...

Transcript . (Note written half-way through: I’m tempted to remove all indicators of who said what and let you guess, maybe have a quiz,...

Theodore Roosevelt is heading home for a rest. So that’s a Chicago-New York railroad trip for a man who was shot in the chest less than a ...

Hiram Johnson evidently didn’t know it, but the California Legislature passed a resolution allowing him to stay out of the state campaigni...

Roosevelt exhausts himself by holding meetings about the campaign in his hospital room; his doctors tell him to knock it off. One problem...

The NYT blames the new Women’s Social and Political Union militancy campaign on the “timidity” of the British government which failed to ke...

So I first saw a general mention that Mittens had told some business dudes to tell their employees to vote for him, and made a mental no...

Woodrow Wilson, in a speech in Delaware (he’s still doing campaign speeches where locals went to trouble and expense, he says, but he won’t...

Theodore Roosevelt issues a statement: “It matters little about me, but it matters all about the cause we fight for. ... the standard itse...

Transcript . Let’s begin with a quote from Oscar Wilde, whose birthday this is: “A man who does not think for himself does not think a...