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Governor Grover Cleveland (Union-New York)/Representative Henry Adams (Union-Massachusetts)		  
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Governor Benjamin Harrison (People's Alliance-Indiana)/Senator Joseph F. Smith (People's Alliance-Illinois)		  
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Representative Samuel Randall (Destiny-Pennsylvania)/Senator John Morgan (Destiny-Alabama)		  
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« on: April 02, 2014, 07:26:03 PM »
The Union Convention would be seen as a stinging rebuke of Cassius Clay's presidency. Though he was not on the convention ballot, Vice President Arthur Sewall was, but was handily defeated. Instead, the Union Covention nominated Grover Cleveland, a popular, nononsense Governor from New York. Cleveland pledges to fasttrack the United States back to the gold standard, blaming the current economic panic on the lack of sound currency. He also wishes to implement a complete meritocracy, putting an end to political patronage. Lastly, he opposes statehood for the Dakota territory and would pursue cuts to the military budget if elected. The convention nominates the young intellectual, Henry Adams, as Cleveland's Vice President, partly as a nod to the Adams family but also to incorporate a message of trust regulation.

After inconclusive results at both the Whig and Radical conventions, the two parties collaborated to form a temporary coalition, dubbed the People's Alliance. Four men's names were placed at the convention: Benjamin Harrison, James Weaver, Joseph Smith, and Walter Gibson. However, no candidate was able to attain a clear advantage in the delegate count. After much deliberation, Harrison's delegates offered Smith the Vice Presidency, and a compromise was made. Harrison supports statehood for Dakota, popular sovereignty on the polygamy issue, and maintaining the bi-metallic currency backing.

This unity coalition, the People's Alliance, would not go over well with either parties as a whole. A frustrated Samuel Randall refused to take part in the convention, and instead went on to form his own party. A handful of men including John O'Sullivan, William Walker, and others met in Zachary, Texas, and formed the Manifest Destiny Party, or Destiny for short. No longer in a mainstream party, Randall would embrace more zealous rhetoric, calling for a steep hike in tariffs, a return to the gold standard, and an increase in military funding, to "Create an American Empire on which the sun will never set." Randall supports statehood for Dakota, unconditional annexation of Babel, and lastly, greatly lifting the existing immigration restrictions. "All men, whether they be English, or Italian or Irish, ought to have the opportunity to fight in the army of democracy and Destiny," the Destiny platform would read. The convention would nominate Alabama Senator John Morgan as his runningmate.

Three days!
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2014, 08:07:08 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2014, 08:24:20 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2014, 08:28:33 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2014, 08:58:58 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2014, 10:20:02 PM »
I'm a Harrison/Smith man. Down with Cleveland! And down with the traitors in the Destiny Party. They spit upon the dreams of old Manifest!
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« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2014, 10:23:09 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2014, 10:23:21 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2014, 11:21:22 PM »
For Randall and America! Yeeha!
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2014, 11:23:31 PM »
Harrison/Smith. Its time to break the choke-hold.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2014, 12:04:33 AM »
Quote from: Dereich on April 02, 2014, 11:23:31 PM
Harrison/Smith. Its time to break the choke-hold.

The Union Party must fall! The dreams of Radicals and Manifesters must rise!
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2014, 09:16:43 AM »
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 12:04:33 AM
Quote from: Dereich on April 02, 2014, 11:23:31 PM
Harrison/Smith. Its time to break the choke-hold.

The Union Party must fall! The dreams of Radicals and Manifesters must rise!

Silver for everyone!
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2014, 11:45:31 AM »
Bah, Clevelandites. Don't they know that the Union stranglehold on the nation is hurting it (and is also tremendously boring)?
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« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2014, 12:03:47 PM »
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:45:31 AM
Bah, Clevelandites. Don't they know that the Union stranglehold on the nation is hurting it (and is also tremendously boring)?
You'll probably get President Debs or something soon.
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« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2014, 01:19:13 PM »
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:45:31 AM
Bah, Clevelandites. Don't they know that the Union stranglehold on the nation is hurting it (and is also tremendously boring)?

I'm getting pretty bored myself. It's like "C'mon, guys..." However, given the left's tendency towards the same, it's unsurprising that the right would lack a willingness to give up power for the sake of story.
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« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2014, 01:49:32 PM »
« Edited: April 03, 2014, 02:15:13 PM by Mr. X »
On a different note, I think it may be time for a non-Mormon ticket (sorry Zioneer, but the track record isn't good and more importantly, it is starting to get too predictable).  On the other hand the forces of good (liberals I like Tongue ) had an extremely long winning streak in the last timeline so I can't really complain.
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« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2014, 01:50:35 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2014, 02:56:10 PM »
Quote from: Mr. X on April 03, 2014, 01:49:32 PM
On a different note, I think it may be time for a non-Mormon ticket (sorry Zioneer, but the track record isn't good and more importantly, it is starting to get too predictable).  On the other hand the forces of good (liberals I like Tongue ) had an extremely long winning streak in the last timeline so I can't really complain.

Oh, I'm fine with a non-Mormon ticket; I just want either a Mormon on the ticket (either VP or Prez), or for the winning party to be Manifest/Radical, the "Mormon" party. A fusion of Radical and Whigs is also acceptable.
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« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2014, 03:05:29 PM »
None of the candidates are particularly appealing to me, but I went with Randall because he's a Pennsylvanian.
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« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2014, 11:04:18 PM »
What's up with the Cleveland love? He seems to be twice as popular as Cassius Clay ever was. Also, I guess we shouldn't have gone with Harrison/Smith, though apparently it wouldn't have mattered because Cleveland is the new Reagan.
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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2014, 11:24:42 PM »
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:04:18 PM
What's up with the Cleveland love? He seems to be twice as popular as Cassius Clay ever was. Also, I guess we shouldn't have gone with Harrison/Smith, though apparently it wouldn't have mattered because Cleveland is the new Reagan.

Haven't you heard? Forum Republicans suck Grover Cleveland's cock.
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« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2014, 12:21:41 PM »
Quote from: Senator Alfred F. Jones on April 03, 2014, 11:24:42 PM
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:04:18 PM
What's up with the Cleveland love? He seems to be twice as popular as Cassius Clay ever was. Also, I guess we shouldn't have gone with Harrison/Smith, though apparently it wouldn't have mattered because Cleveland is the new Reagan.

Haven't you heard? Forum Republicans suck Grover Cleveland's cock.

Harsh language, buddy.
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« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2014, 12:23:15 PM »
Random question, but it sprung to me: When does Lincoln die in this timeline since he wasn't shot as President?
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« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2014, 12:38:21 PM »
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« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2014, 02:09:55 PM »
Quote from: Cathcon on April 04, 2014, 12:21:41 PM
Quote from: Senator Alfred F. Jones on April 03, 2014, 11:24:42 PM
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:04:18 PM
What's up with the Cleveland love? He seems to be twice as popular as Cassius Clay ever was. Also, I guess we shouldn't have gone with Harrison/Smith, though apparently it wouldn't have mattered because Cleveland is the new Reagan.

Haven't you heard? Forum Republicans suck Grover Cleveland's cock.

Harsh language, buddy.

I speak the truth.

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Quote from: Senator Alfred F. Jones on April 03, 2014, 11:24:42 PM
Quote from: Zioneer on April 03, 2014, 11:04:18 PM
What's up with the Cleveland love? He seems to be twice as popular as Cassius Clay ever was. Also, I guess we shouldn't have gone with Harrison/Smith, though apparently it wouldn't have mattered because Cleveland is the new Reagan.

Haven't you heard? Forum Republicans suck Grover Cleveland's cock.
pshh. That's nothing compared to how this entire forum views Gerald Ford.

Get back to me on that when Ford wins this TL's '76 election.
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