Hail, Columbia! (The Election of 1892)
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Question: For President of the Commonwealth of North America...
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Jeremiah Walter Bartlett of West Florida [Whig]
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August Vinzent Spies of Manitoba [Democratic]
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Miguel Jimenez y García of Yucatan [Commonwealth Liberal]
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« on: May 23, 2016, 05:29:09 AM »

Gerald Joyce Campbell was reelected in 1888 with a resounding margin, continuing a trend that cemented itsself over the last years: while the Democrats were strong in the first round, the prospect of one of their radical candidates as President must scare many Americans into resoundingly rallying around the non-Democrat candidate, this time the Whig Campbell. Alas, the first-past-the-post nature of the parliametary houses meant that the Democrats had made inroads into seats that were evenly divided between Liberals and Whigs as their oppositon, and after 1888 they claimed a narrow majority in the House of Commons (having won every seat in 7 north-western Plain and Great Lakes provinces) and a strong plurality in the Senate.

Mr. Campbell's second term thus was one that either had to be geared towards compromise or go down in gridlock. A seasoned Franklin City insider, the President chose the former. While not giving any ground on the monetary issue - the Democrats supporting the coinage of a silver-based currency, the Whigs and Liberals being in opposition to this - important passages of the Democratic platform, including in 1890 the landmark passage of an eight-hour work day, which was widely celebrated in the big industrial cities. In remembrance of this passage, workers began to hold parades and marches on May the first regularly.

Still, Campbell's second term was not full of achievments outside this particular issue. Having little power in Congress, he was often forced to idly sit by and oversee the nation, more like a notary than a proper President. It was thus to noone's surprise that the President announced he would not run for re-election.

By the time of the 1892 election coming, the following had emerged as candidates:

Governor Jeremiah Walter Bartlett of West Florida [Whig]
The first anglophone governor of the tri-lingual province of West Florida in over thirty years, Jeremiah Bartlett was chosen to suceed the President by the Whig Party. His platform is virtually similar to Campbell's one four years earlier, promising a "laissez-faire" attitude to most issues and no reformist attitude.

Member of the Commons August Vinzent Spies of Manitoba [Democratic]
Having been a radical in his youth, MoC August Spies, representing Manitoba's second district, based in Winnipeg, is the epitome of many Democrats: German-speaking, radical in attitude, living in the Plain provinces. In difference to past Democratic candidates, he is urban-based - to ensure the support of Labor organisations and Georgist factions - but still enjoys vast support among the German Democratic farmer base, due to his policies of a silver-based currency, his opposition to temperance and public education - the latter however far less so than his Democratic predecessors - and the democratic election of justices.

Businessman Miguel Jimenez y García of Yucatan [Commonwealth Liberal]
Miguel Jimenez is a businessman from Cancun in Yucatan, and he was chosen by an ailing party that struggles to find its place in the emerging duopoly between Democrats and Whigs. Chosen to expand his party's voter base out from the urban upper-class New England, the man that has never held public office did not get the easiest job around. His set of policies seems like a mix of Democratic and Whiggish policies, with a piece of social reform: support of temperance, protectionism and public education, total opposition to the silver coinage, arbitrary inflation and the income tax.

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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2016, 05:30:18 AM »

As a sidenote, one of those candidates did exist in real life, though in a rather, err different, role.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2016, 05:46:40 AM »

Spies.
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2016, 06:34:37 AM »

Lean Garcia
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2016, 10:25:27 AM »

Bartlett.
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2016, 02:20:18 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2016, 03:01:45 PM »

Spies sounds like a decent candidate.
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2016, 09:28:44 PM »

Garcia for public education.
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« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2016, 07:36:44 AM »

Still one day left here
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