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Question: Who would you have voted for?
#1
William McKinley (Republican)		  
#2
William J. Bryan (Democratic)		  
#3
John Palmer (National Democratic)		  
#4
Joshua Levering (Prohibition)		  
#5
Charles Matchett (Socialist Labor)		  
#6
Other/Write-in		  
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Partisan results
Total Voters: 40

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Rockefeller GOP
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« on: July 27, 2014, 11:30:03 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 01:52:51 PM »
Quote from: MATTROSE94 on July 28, 2014, 12:51:32 PM
I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2014, 03:14:48 PM »
Quote from: MATTROSE94 on July 28, 2014, 02:37:08 PM
Quote from: SPC on July 28, 2014, 02:00:52 PM
Quote from: Rockefeller GOP on July 28, 2014, 01:52:51 PM
Quote from: MATTROSE94 on July 28, 2014, 12:51:32 PM
I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.

I'm not aware that Bryan was an advocate of racial segregation (any more than the minimal acquiescence that any Democratic candidate of the era was required to give to appease the South). I would think that a description of Bryan as a social conservative would have more to do with his support for Prohibition and involvement in the Scopes Trial.
I don't really know too much about Bryan's views on racial issues such as segregation, but definitely his views on prohibition and his stubbornness regarding the theory of evolution would have turned me off and pushed me towards McKinley in retrospect.

Fair enough, but as a side note I do believe he was a segregationist.
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