1912 US Election Campaign Speech Audio - Woodrow Wilson 1 of 6

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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[Dalton Stewart]

The comments are filled with bad things about Wilson, yet the video has no dislikes.

[VGTheater]

another socialist response,but that's what a socialist government do to people,it makes them dependent on government by eliminating competition in the free market.

[sfiorare]

you have no clue what you're talking about

[ShaunM1986]

Definitely the worst president ever he sold us all out by signing in the Federal Reserve Bank and IRS

[LS4N]

One of the best presidents in this country

[MrDdude41]

So tell me, despite the fact that Kevin Johnson is being unnecessarily vulgar, what facts you have to back up your point. He has some, he presents them in an impolite fashion which is completely unnecessary and which he should realize is no way to win an argument, however, what he's saying is true, or, at least, has facts behind it, whereas your argument has very few behind them.

P.S. This is how a socialist argues.

[Insanekid95]

Hope this racist, sexist, authoritarian and anti-first amendment warmonger is burning in he

[Insanekid95]

@jladrae

[Sean Byrne]

Yeah, I was being sarcastic so as to say "FDR wasn't murdered, dumbass." Does that clear things up?

[martymcfett]

Last I checked, strokes weren't weapons of murder. They're just painful reminders of our own mortality, something FDR apparently liked to ignore sometimes. The guy saw himself as a god.

[Sean Byrne]

Yeah, FDR was murdered by a stroke.

[althmanne]

Exactly. You could actually argue he's worse than the Southern segregationists. At least they had the shadow of a reason to do it - they had to win re-election in a racist South. He was a Democratic President from New Jersey, and as a Democrat there was no way he would lose the Solid South.

No. He chose to resegregate government, not for political expediency, but for a vitriolic personal hate.

And he was a "Progressive." Totalitarians of a feather...