Volume 14 , Issue 46

100 Years Ago Today - 12 November 1912

It was one hundred years ago today, 12 November 1912, Tuesday, that we find in The Democratic Banner, out of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, that the department of justice was making a strenuous effort to push as close to conclusion as possible all pending anti-trust prosecutions of the Taft administration for President-elect Wilson and his attorney general when they take the oath of office on March 4.

While the issues had been joined in the two biggest pending cases, the suits against the steel and harvester trusts -- it was not thought they would be ready for decision by March 4. The steel suit probably would extend into the new administration, but officials foresaw the end of the testimony and arguments in the harvester case by April or May.

Wilson To Go Away For Three Or Four Weeks

On the second page of 1912 The Democratic Banner, we hear via of Princeton, N.J., Nov. 9 (1912) -- That President-elect Woodrow Wilson intended to follow out his listening policy for several weeks before making any announcements of important matters of state. President-elect Wilson said he had decided to go away next week on a vacation of three or four weeks, during which time he would be out of reach of political callers. The place where he would go was to be announced later. It was probable that he would make known very little about the policy of his future administration before January 1, 1913.

Governor Wilson was receiving about one thousand letters a day back then. Wilson refused to be drawn into a discussion of a proposed extra session of congress.

Total Vote In The U.S.

Out of New York, Nov. 9 (1912) -- we find that a table compiled from the latest official unofficial and estimated returns from all the states shoed the popular vote in the United States Tuesday (1912) as follows: Wilson 6,398,997; Roosevelt, 4,307,305; Taft, 3,359,364. The Socialist vote and that of other minor parties would total about 800,000. Wilson's plurality over Roosevelt, 2,091,692; Roosevelt's plurality over Taft, 947,941.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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