[Rarebooks] TR Daily Offering

[Garry R Austin]

2/17/14

Each day we offer a Theodore Roosevelt related item. 

By 1916 TR had mended many, but not all, of the bruised egos and relationships that were aggravated by his Bull Moose Party run for the Presidency. He proved to be the spoiler in 1912. Wilson's election was all but assured when the Progressives ran TR, but it proved to be closer than expected. Roosevelt actually came in second in that election, he outpolled the sitting President, Taft, by nearly 650,000 votes. Roosevelt & Taft outpolled Wilson by 1.3 million votes. 
Theodore Roosevelt had been the Progressive leader of the conservatives, in 1912 he became the conservative leader of the Progressives. Could he be the Republican standard bearer in 1916? Possibly. However there was a movement within the Party to elect a moderate candidate. Charles Evans Hughes filled that bill. As a sitting Supreme Court Judge appointed by Taft in 1910 he had not spoken publicly about politics. He did not actively campaign for the nomination but made it clear that if he was nominated he would serve. It came his way on the third ballot.  But before the balloting, the progressive  wing campaigned hard for TR. This piece below is a scarce political polemic provided to delegates at the Chicago Convention......


We offer the following postpaid and net to all;

1916 TR CAMPAIGN PUBLICATION FOR THE CONVENTION

Lawson, Thomas W. A Path Pointer For Delegates To The National Republican Convention. Boston: Thomas Lawson, 1916. 			                 $125.00
Only edition; 24mo, pp. 48; Ballot blanks; original printed burgundy leather wrappers with oval openings for portraits of TR, McCall & Woodrow Wilson that lie underneath; Good, edge abrasion along the bottom edges, wear at spine edges; A real Treasure! OCLC Locates just seven copies; A Pro-Roosevelt polemic that failed as Governor Charles Evans Hughes secured the nomination but lost the election to Woodrow Wilson in 1916.




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