1912 US Election Campaign Speech Audio - Theodore Roosevelt 2 of 9

Scholars routinely observe that the advent of radio reshaped political speech. But for more than a decade before the first commercial radio broadcast station was inaugurated in Pittsburgh in 1920, citizens had been listening to candidate speeches. This feat was made possible by the phonograph.

I will be uploading the contents of this 100 year old collection of campaign speech audio from 1908 and 1912 in its entirety.

"In Their Own Voices: The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908 and 1912"

Disc 1 - 1908 US Presidential Election
01 - 10 : William Jennings Bryan (Democratic Candidate)
11 - 24 : William Howard Taft (Republican Candidate)

Disc 2 - 1912 US Presidential Election
01 - 06 : Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Candidate)
07 - 15 : Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Candidate)
16 - 22 : William Howard Taft (Republican Candidate)

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[fishhead06]

What beautiful elocution and elegant oratory! How far society has fallen.

[peaceandmetal88]

It's not hard to grasp the gist of what he's saying if you just listen. What's gone these days is that educated accent that he exhibits when he speaks. Speaking in those days was much more like prose than today.

[lordsonnyxixi]

My God, this recording is one hundred years old.

[temp4010]

Unbelievable. His voice sounds just as eloquent and forceful as I thought it would. Why can't politicians talk this way anymore? Why do we settle for verbal jousting and 4-second sound bites?

[RedTV8888]

i totally expected his voice to sound different

[sfafasfasfsa]

i wish my party would remember him and eisenhower

[djiinraidinnae]

This.

I agree with everything he is saying. Though part of it he seems to be nodding toward his view on potential prohibition (a hot topic of the time), which is over and done with now (unless you count illegal/restricted drugs, which is kind of a form of temperance, just not over alcohol). Moderates need to be more noted. Pity that someone like him has to get in "by accident," due to an assassination.

[thesega99]

Fact: Dr.Eggman's appearance is base on Teddy. Look at Eggman's art from Sonic 3 and compare it to the famous picture of Teddy.

[deepwoodskentuckian]

@RonocDondra352 its still possible he would have been alive. i do give you credit for that

[RonocDondra352]

@deepwoodskentuckian I think I may have meant ww1 and typed ww2 by accident....whoops. But then again, look at daniel inouye

[RonocDondra352]

@MIKESOWELL they both ran against people that everyone thought they would win against. both were liberal republicans

[MIKESOWELL]

@RonocDondra352 True, but there is a HUGE difference between Dewey and TR.......