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Junior Chimp
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« on: April 02, 2014, 07:26:03 PM » |
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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.
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