Conventions Quotes
There was much New England dissatisfaction with the disproportionate power held by the Southern states as a result of counting three-fifths of the slave population for apportioning Congressional seats. In addition they were disproportionately hurt by the War of 1812 and the Embargo on trade with England. Secession was proposed but failed to get a majority. A number of proposed Constitutional amendments were voted upon. The super-majority herein required would have diminished their vulnerability to Southern power.
Nagy was executed 2 years later by the Russian controlled Hungarian government after the revolution was put down.
The “thieves” won in the sense that TR was the choice of the vast majority of the Republican voters of the time, yet the party bosses manipulated the convention to deny Roosevelt the nomination. Taft was nominated, and Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose Party and outpolled Taft, but they split the Republican vote and lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
The 1968 convention turned out to be a debacle with police riots in the streets and parks.
During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:
Benton's solution was for the people to elect the President and Vice President directly.
This is one of the great erroneous predictions of American political history. He was not nominated on the second ballot. Nor on the third; Lincoln was
