This election marked the fourth presidential bid by Eugene (*) Debs, and featured the competing platforms of "New Nationalism" and "New Freedom."
A candidate in this election declared "we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord" before walking out of a primary, and accepted his party's nomination with a speech called "A Confession of Faith." In this election's Democratic primary, Charles Francis Murphy's backing of "Champ" Clark outraged William Jennings Bryan and cost Clark the nomination. This election marked the fourth presidential bid by Eugene (*) Debs, and featured the competing platforms of "New Nationalism" and "New Freedom." In this election, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose Party and stole votes from William Howard Taft; both men were thus defeated by Woodrow Wilson. For 10 points, name this election held two years before the outbreak of World War I. ANSWER: election of 1912
A candidate in this election declared "we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord" before walking out of a primary, and accepted his party's nomination with a speech called "A Confession of Faith."
election of 1912