((Is there any reason to have a Secretary of the Interior right now? We havn't done much with national parks and our resources.))
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Alright. I'll act as a tiebreaker.
I vote Yes on the PPSA.
The PPSA passes with 11 ayes, 10 nays and 0 abstains.
The President has has full diplomatic power in South America until a time such as he relinquishes it through personal action or Congressional Demand.
The update will be here today or tomorrow.
I vote Yes on the PPSA.
The PPSA passes with 11 ayes, 10 nays and 0 abstains.
The President has has full diplomatic power in South America until a time such as he relinquishes it through personal action or Congressional Demand.
The update will be here today or tomorrow.
(Ehhhhh... That is the second time you broke a questionable tie BBB
Too much executive power!
No, I really do not care that much)
Too much executive power!
No, I really do not care that much)
Times like these make me wonder if we live in a democratic parlamentary republic or a very presidentialist republic.
I, however, support democracy wholeheartedly so I will shut up for this term with my neutral pacifist views and wait until the next election to vote for a candidate with the same foreign policy as mine.
I hope you regret this choice later, when you are covered in peruvian blood.
I, however, support democracy wholeheartedly so I will shut up for this term with my neutral pacifist views and wait until the next election to vote for a candidate with the same foreign policy as mine.
I hope you regret this choice later, when you are covered in peruvian blood.
I was voting based on what I believed the Congress I've described would have voted for. The demand for non-intervention is large, as is the anti-Executive lobby, but the Empire of Liberty and the very executive-leaning character of Harrison's presidency still hold a slim majority. However, if and when Carr takes Peru, he'll largely take the interventionism with him, at least until WWI.
((A speech given by Terrance to a meeting of approximately 100 prominent liberals))
Ladies and gentlemen, when one dutifully pays one’s taxes they hope that their money may be spent with wisdom. That the government shall use the public funds to improve the lives of the common American. Mr Carr rejects this. He instead wishes to end the life of many common Americans! Why would he spend so much money on war rather than pensions or education? To what end?! I’ll tell you what end; tactless imperialism. Brute force impaling the will of the United State’s federal government on independent nations. Good young American lads shalln’t be dying on the fields of Latin America and the seas of the South Pacific to protect and preserve freedom, justice, or democracy. No! The shall be sacrificed for little more than opening markets and boosting Mr Carr’s self-perceived prestige. The Empire of Liberty is dead, and from its ashes one watches rise an Empire of Tyranny.
Ladies and gentlemen, when one dutifully pays one’s taxes they hope that their money may be spent with wisdom. That the government shall use the public funds to improve the lives of the common American. Mr Carr rejects this. He instead wishes to end the life of many common Americans! Why would he spend so much money on war rather than pensions or education? To what end?! I’ll tell you what end; tactless imperialism. Brute force impaling the will of the United State’s federal government on independent nations. Good young American lads shalln’t be dying on the fields of Latin America and the seas of the South Pacific to protect and preserve freedom, justice, or democracy. No! The shall be sacrificed for little more than opening markets and boosting Mr Carr’s self-perceived prestige. The Empire of Liberty is dead, and from its ashes one watches rise an Empire of Tyranny.
I agree completely with Secretary Terrance; this Empire of Liberty will bring nothing but despotism, both at home and abroad. We have no right to overthrow the government of a nation we don't like, just as they have no right to overthrow ours. This is the golden rule, and should be the guiding force of our policies! Not this goal of worldwide 'freedom,' which is carried out by men who strong-arm the Congress, ignore the Supreme Court, and overrule the protests of their own generals; no this system is not free, it is merely a glorified military state, where the votes of the individual are becoming less and less relevant.
Carr: Peruvian Blues
The election of 1905 proved to be a stunning victory for the ACP. Calvin Carr’s promises of non-intervention in the economy and a reassertion of American power at all costs captured the imagination of those Americans still enamored with the Empire of Liberty. Carr did not campaign much, being over 80 at the time of his election, but his campaign managers and promoters ran a whirlwind of election propaganda through the nation.
In the North, veterans were almost unanimous in their votes for Carr, and in the South veterans were the only ones who did not vote for him because of his connections to the Scorched Earth policy of the Civil War. Carr carried the South and captured California for the ACP by a thin margin for the first time in the party’s history. Meanwhile, Terrance, who had counted on California due to its Federal loyalties, found himself beset on all sides by the apathy stemming from the end of the Golden Age that rendered the Federal Party inert for much of the next four years.
The Democratic Party on the other hand, suffered the most psychologically damaging defeat since 1877. Weaver only managed to carry the most loyal Democratic states, and outside of them the election was an unfair fight between Terrance and Carr. The ACP’s victory was thus complete, although the next four years would cast a shadow over the euphoria that prevailed in the party during January 1905.
1. Results for the Election of 1905.
The first sign of trouble within the ACP came in the immediate aftermath of Carr’s inauguration, when he proposed a “Presidential Prerogative for South America”. The legislation would grant him the same powers in regards to South America as the Prerogative for Mexico had granted Cameron in 1841. For the ACP’s strong non-interventionist lobby, this was too much. They had supported Carr’s bid for the presidency for the party’s sake, but they would not allow him to plunge the United States into the same “imperialist expansionism” that they had criticized Harrison for, and so the PPSA faced one of the most divided Congresses ever.
The Federals split on the matter without Harrison’s guidance, and the Democrats largely abstained. The interventionist lobby won out by a vote of 51-49 in the Senate and 220-215 in the House. Carr and his new VP, David Hensdale, could do as they wished in South America. The president immediately began preparations for the “liberation” of Peru from the Communist regime that had ruled it since 1896. All he needed was proof that the Peruvian government was as bad as he claimed.
2. Calvin Carr, 22nd President of the United States.
Before he could do this however, Carr was forced to deal with another foreign policy matter, that of Europe and the Commonwealth. The 27th Commonwealth Conference was held in Washington in April 1905. The British spent much of the conference attempting to gain some sort of insurance of American help against the Tripartite Pact. Carr rejected such proposals out of hand. In a private conversation with the British ambassador, he even said “I do not give a damn about your petty European squabbles”. When the Conference ended, British and American relations were at their lowest point since before the Buffalo Conference. In the next general election, Arthur Balfour’s Liberal Party would lose its place in government in a backlash against the Prime Ministers “Yankophilia”.
To Federals, Democrats and more international ACP members, the President’s actions during the Conference were a disgrace. Non-interventionists however, were overjoyed. For a brief moment in May 1905, Carr was a hero among isolationists. In June, Carr set the country on a course that not only ripped the isolationist lobby from him, but would tear apart the Empire of Liberty. The American Occupation of Peru began on June 13th, when news reached Carr’s desk of an uprising in the Peruvian capital of Lima.
Taking this as his cue, Carr denounced the Peruvian government completely, and announced that the United States was now at war with the small, battered nation. Two days later, 51,000 men set to sea from San Diego Harbor. By the time they arrived in Lima on June 26th, the United States and the balance of power worldwide would have shifted immeasurably. The first of the international pushes that moved the world in the late 1900s was the creation of Italy on June 22nd.
3. Francis Wallingham arrives in Rome.
Over the last two years, the British and French had supported the attempts of one Francis Wallingham to unite the Italian Peninsula as a counterweight to Austria in the Adriatic. In June 1904, Wallingham had gained the support of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and in August of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont. In May 1905, the two kingdoms had proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy, and placed Emmanuel of Tuscany on the throne of the new kingdom.
The Pope was the only leader of one of Italy’s many nations who did not yield to demands to accept the Emmanuel’s sovereignty. So in June 1905, Emmanuel gave Wallingham 60,000 men to march on Rome with. The Papal Forces surrendered without a fight at Cerveteri, and Wallingham marched into the ancient center of the civilized world on the 22nd. Once there, he accepted the Pope’s oath of loyalty on behalf of Emmanuel [1].
With the Pope under him, Emmanuel could officially claim himself King of Italy. On June 23rd, he was crowned officially in Rome. As his first act, Emmanuel proclaimed that the territories of Venice, Lombardy and Tirol belonged to Italy. Although the Kingdom would not act on this claim until years later, it permanently drove a wedge between Austria-Hungary and Italy, forcing the new nation closer to France and Britain. For Americans however, the great drama was in Peru.
The “American Expedition to Peru” landed on the coast of Peru on June 25th 1905. By then the Peruvian government had assembled a ramshackle force of some 9,000 men to meet the American force, which was 5 times its size. The two forces met on June 25th at Huaral, just outside Lima. The first and bloodiest engagement of the Peruvian War would only last one day.
4. The 1st Dakota, who led the charge at Huaral.
The battle began with a US artillery bombardment that lasted three hours, and killed an estimated 1,000 Peruvian soldiers. The 6th US Army Infantry Division then moved in for the kill. In the seven hours of gunfire that erupted at Huaral, another 1,662 Peruvians were killed. The defenders beat a hasty retreat, which fell into a rout in no time. The 6th Infantry lost 632 men at Huaral; the only US casualties of the battle [2].
The invasion force then dispersed itself to occupy important cities and chase down the remnants of the Peruvian Army. The 6th Infantry paraded into Lima and arrested the government for “crimes against the Peruvian people” late that night. Two months later, the 9th Infantry engaged and destroyed the Peruvian Army at Oxapampa in the mountains. Over the course of the fighting retreat, the Peruvians lost 3,769 more men, and the 9th Infantry suffered 684 dead.
Despite the low number of American dead, the backlash at home was immediate and violent. To most Americans, Peru was a “wake-up call”. The same people who had happily gone along with Harrison’s rhetoric of an Empire of Liberty now denounced Carr’s actions in Peru as those of an “Empire of Tyranny”. Carr was forced to watch as the same nation that had roared approval during the Spanish-American War and the USS Bridgeworthy Incident, suddenly turned against foreign intervention.
They called the war in Peru “unjustified and tyrannical”, and it would stay so as long as American troops were stationed on foreign soil. When the mid-term elections of 1907 rolled around, isolationist candidates swept into office. The ACP jumped from 112 seats in the House to 184, and not a single one of the new members joined the intervention lobby.
5. Governor Joseph J. Jarvis, de facto head of the isolation lobby.
By then Carr had already managed to bring a semblance of “American Liberty” to Peru. In October 1906, the first non-Communist Peruvian election since 1893 was held. The Socialist Party of Peru and Peruvian Socialist Parties gained 52% of the seats in the new Peruvian Congress, and the Presidency in Adelmo Flores. Carr did not allow him to step into office until he had promised to abide by a pro-American stance.
Apart from the stresses of foreign affairs, the United States flourished. The economy grew by 27%, ensuring the continually rising standard of living of the average American. A proposed tariff was struck down in the House and Senate, as free trade was still the name of the game, and the American ratio of export to import was more than $30 to $1. Economically Carr thus benefited from the very nature of the exponential US economy.
Culturally, a small revolution was experienced in literature. Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage” broke bestseller records with its anti-war message, which reflected the American national consciousness. Daniel Howe’s “Washington in Winter” similarly riled up Americans with its story of a young politician who is corrupted by warmongering and imperialism in Washington DC. Music however, was the truest beneficiary.
From the South, a new style of music rose into the mainstream up North. Jazz, created by poor blacks living under Jim Crow, grasped the younger generations in New York and Illinois, traveling to California on the wings of rich kids searching for sunshine and blacks searching for work. The Blues too sprang up, first as a black form of music like Jazz. Eventually, a young man named Roger Thomas from Pennsylvania put anti-Peru lyrics to a Blues song. Though protest songs such as this would not be popular again for a long time as American wars became less controversial, during the American Occupation of Peru, the “Peru Blues” played in every bar across the country.
6. High Street, Chicago, later renamed Roger Thomas Street.
Foreign policy continued to be the largest player in Carr’s presidency though. On July 4th 1907, the Plebiscites for Canada, Quebec, New Zealand and Australia took place. French-speaking Canada unfailingly voted to join Quebec. All four new nations’ Constitutional Conventions settled for a government similar to Britain’s, with King Edward VIII as de jure Head of State.
Canada officially declared limited independence on July 4th 1908, as did Australia and New Zealand. Quebec did not wait that long, and had its Independence Day celebrations on December 3rd of the previous year. Yet for all this fanfare, the new nations still had to follow Britannia, and follow her they did when the Entente Cordiale came around.
In August 1908, the French and the British signed a military alliance known as the Entente Cordiale to counteract the Tripartite Pact in Europe. Dragged into the agreement were Italy, who eventually became one of the most blatantly warmongering members, and any nation subject to British or French rule. Two sides had thus formed who, when set upon each other, could unleash destruction on an unimaginable scale.
As the storm clouds gathered in Europe, America continued to be embroiled in the vitriol spewed at the Occupation of Peru. Carr had been lucky that the Santiago Pact had been so silent after the show of force in Peru and the shift in international power that Italian Independence brought. All he had to do was get the people to either accept or forget Peru, and the economy would bring him reelection.
[2] – Congressman Marshawn Cain, who had resigned his post to reenlist in the Army when Carr was elected, led the 3rd Dakota in battle, and suffered a bullet wound to the leg.
[1] – Two years later, Wallingham would use this to his advantage, threatening to Emmanuel that, unless the King signed the Entente Cordiale, he would see the Pope’s oath of loyalty as having been to him. The results of such an action were too terrible for the young nation to contemplate, and the treaty was signed.
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Exceptional Situation(s):
None whatsoever. Primary time.
Just as a side-note though, I only use isolationism because non-intervention(ism) is such an unintuitive thing to write or talk about.
The despicable war in Peru must be the first real crime against humanity our country have committed. I hope Carr will be voted out of office for his actions. But I am getting old, I can't keep up with a new dance, and it seems the American people abandoned Socialism for scumbags like Carr. I am going to retire from politics. I will spend most of my retirement praying for America to regain her soul.
((I was never even able to get my cabinet posts to you. Meh, oh well, guess it doesn't matter.))
I believe my task in the White House is done, and this battered old horse is as well. I will not seek re-election. I may, however, continue to supply my commentary on the political scene.
I believe my task in the White House is done, and this battered old horse is as well. I will not seek re-election. I may, however, continue to supply my commentary on the political scene.
((Sec. of State: Roderick Khur (King50000)
Sec. of the Treasury: Joseph Jarvis (Riccardo)
Sec. of Justice: William Johnson (atomicsoda)
Sec. of Industry: Samuel Davis (Projekt)
Sec. of Agriculture: William Taggerman (Zagorath)
Sec. of War: Simon von Ritter (Avindian)
Sec. of Volunteers: Marshawn Cain (Caezaire)
Sec. of Interior: Alicia Vallejo (Gloa)
Postmaster General: William Carlsson (thekinguter)
I believe that's all of them.))
Sec. of the Treasury: Joseph Jarvis (Riccardo)
Sec. of Justice: William Johnson (atomicsoda)
Sec. of Industry: Samuel Davis (Projekt)
Sec. of Agriculture: William Taggerman (Zagorath)
Sec. of War: Simon von Ritter (Avindian)
Sec. of Volunteers: Marshawn Cain (Caezaire)
Sec. of Interior: Alicia Vallejo (Gloa)
Postmaster General: William Carlsson (thekinguter)
I believe that's all of them.))
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I won't run as a presidential candidate. Instead, I will run as the right hand of Mr. Jarvis, his VP. I am sorry for those who were confused by my original statement.
-Postmaster General William III Carlson
-Postmaster General William III Carlson
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While I respect the President, and thank him for the appointment, my belief that America must remain free from these conflicts, especially from a great war I fear will emerge from Europe, and that we should remain friendly with all nations, I must announce my candidacy for President of the United States under the banner of the ACP (which I still believe should be renamed Republican).
- Secretary of the Treasury Joseph P. Jarvis
- Secretary of the Treasury Joseph P. Jarvis
((BBB, is it possible for you to tell me the current status of Indians in the U.S.?))