Taft Club article from WRU student newspaper
1 2026-04-07T16:21:07+00:00 Julia Teran 9aca9c408841ff28b321d7128a1e5c918a151e1d 9 1 Taft Club article from WRU student newspaper, 1912 2026-04-07T16:21:07+00:00 CWRU Archives unknown Western Reserve University ; R77000 Students ; K76240 Clubs ; S00000 Publications W00031A 1912 unknown [Things] Julia Teran 9aca9c408841ff28b321d7128a1e5c918a151e1dThis page is referenced by:
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Campaigning at CWRU: Presidential Elections, 1912: Three Parties
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Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, September 2004.
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Republican, Democratic, and Progressive parties each had a student club at WRU. All brought speakers to campus, the Taft Club promising, “some of the best known Republican spellbinders out to show us who’s who.”
The WRU student newspaper reported on campus political activities.Ohio Popular Vote
National Popular Vote
Electoral Vote
Woodrow Wilson (D)
424,834 (41%)
William H. Taft (R)
278,168 (26.8%)
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
229,807 (22.2%)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
90,164 (8.7%)
Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition)
11,511 (1.1%)
Arthur E. Reimer (Socialist Labor)
2,630 (0.3%)Woodrow Wilson (D)
6,293,152 (41.84%)
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
4,119,207 (27.39%)
William H. Taft (R)
3,486,333 (23.18%)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
900,369 (5.99%)
Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition)
207,972 (1.38%)
Arthur E. Reimer (Socialist Labor)
29,374 (0.2%)Woodrow Wilson (D)
435
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
88
William H. Taft (R)
8Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, September 2004.
