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The Rise of a Super Power
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Hello, I am KeldoniaSkylar, and I will be your game moderator for the Rise of Super Power.

What is the Rise of a Super Power you ask?
The Rise of a Super Power is a role playing game based on the gilded age in the United States. Players may choose from, or create, personalities that populate the United States in 1892. President Grover Cleveland has just been elected to his second nonconsecutive term in office, which is the only guarantee politically. The make up of Congress will be determined by you the players, who will be determining the election results based upon your political affiliation in game. You can be a businessman, a congressman, a senator, the president, a member of his cabinet, or even an army or naval officer. The choice is up to you. But together you will help guide a United States that is on the cusp of becoming a world power into the realization of its role as a world power, or perhaps, you will help ensure that the United States stays neutral in world politics.

What do I need to do to play?
First, you will need to create or select a historical character, the only reserved character is our President who will be approved by me . To create a character a few basics must be decided upon. First, you will need a name and profession. You will also need to decide if you are Democrat or a Republican, additional political persuasions might open up at a later date if events turn out that way. You also need to select an age and home state or territory. Dependent upon your profession, or upbringing you might have other assets, these will need to be discussed with the GM. Finally, you will need to create a short bio for your character.

Name: Grover Cleveland
Profession: President of the United States
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Age: 55
Home State: New York
Bio: Cleveland is the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who oppose high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism has made him an icon for American conservatives. Cleveland has won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. He has relentlessly fought political corruption, patronage and bossism. Indeed, as a reformer his prestige was so strong that the like-minded wing of the Republican Party, called "Mugwumps", largely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his support in the 1884 election.
Player: Who is playing

Players will also have assets:
Net Worth: This is how much your character is worth. This includes all of your assets, and how much money you could get if you sold everything.
Cash on Hand: This is how much money you have in your bank. This is the money you can use right away to buy and sell things as you wish.
Debt: This is how much debt you have. This is from unprofitable companies, and from bank loans.
Stock Price: This is the aggregate price of the stocks of the companies you own.
Stocks Owned: These are the stocks, and how much of them, that you own.
Stock Value: This is the value of all of the stocks you own, personally.
Land: How much land you own in acres, its value, and where (for farms, plantations, and ranches)
Companies: This is a list of the companies that you own, and how big they are. You can even create your own!
Political Clout: This is how much weight you have with the Political Class, this includes the President (1), Congress (.75), State (.50), Important Local ie New York City (.30), and Local (.05) officials. The higher the number, the better your clout. Clout starts at 0.10 by default unless you hold a position in the government.

Unless playing a historical character, you will start with a net worth of $1,000,000. You will be able to distribute $900,000 of this however you want, the remaining $100,000 represents your house and land and other various sundries necessary to be a member of the upper class.

For our President:
Net Worth: $3,100,000
Cash on Hand: $3,000,000
Debt: -
Stock Price: -
Stocks Owned: -
Companies: -
Political Clout: 1 (He is the President)

I want to play a historical character what do I do?
If you want to start with something other than the starting wealth you will need to substantiate it through documentation.

OK, so now what happens
Sign ups will last for about a week, unless we get enough players earlier. These will be used to determine the composition of Congress, and thus how likely certain types of legislation are to be passed. Once sign ups are done, the game begins.

I've made my character, now what do I do?
Its time to start doing what your character does, be that bring bills to Congress, manage your business empire or take over a competitors, try and start a war with your newspaper, improve the nation's military, or maybe just maybe, take a nap... You will be able to conduct both public and private activities, public activities need to be announced and ICed in a post, while private activities are taken care of via PM or via IRC.

So I have my plans and I have sent to you or ICed, now what?
It is expected that you will interact with your fellow players to so IC response to what they are doing and maybe cooperate with or work against their plans! Additionally, there will be periodic updates to drive the experience, with foreign events, businesses going bankrupt, war, and the results of player actions. However, this game will be primarily driven by player interactions. Additionally, there will be bi-weekly updates that cover the "Year in Review."

IRC Channel

The IRC Channel is where a lot of discussion takes place, both in character and out of character. It is the true heartbeat of World in Revolution, as everyone gathers to discuss in-game and out of game issues. While it is not mandatory to be on the IRC Channel and to play World in Revolution, it is strongly recommended.

Link: Coldfront
Channel: #RoSP
Instructions:
1) Use the link provided above.
2) Choose the Flash app or the Java app.
3) Create a screen name; it’s recommended that you use your forum name, if available.
4) Close the #coldfront channel that opens automatically.
5) In the command box, type “/join #RoSP” without the quotation marks.
6) You’re in the chat! Welcome!
 
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FAQ
  1. This game uses rolling signups, so sign ups are still open. Yes, that includes positions in Congress.
  2. Officers in the United States military are not allowed to express political affiliations or parties. When you sign up, pm me your party preference it will affect the distributions in Congress. However your first duty is to the nation, not your political affiliation.
  3. The budget bill must be started in the House of Representatives, otherwise bills can originate in either house of Congress.
  4. The Senate has the power to approve treaties, declare war, and has to consent to appoints to the Presidential Cabinet, high office, and the Supreme Court.
  5. To filibuster in the Senate, you need to write a long IC (it can be anything including a just a list of phone numbers) and state that you are performing a filibuster.
  6. Possible votes on issues include Aye, Nay, and Abstain
  7. The Speaker of the House and the Vice President, or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, control the flow of legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively.
  8. The President and the Vice President can not be from the same state.
  9. Votes in the House and Senate will divided equally within the party with the remainder of the votes within the party being controlled by either the Speaker of the House or the Minority Leader.
  10. If a Representative or Senator does not vote on an issue, the Speaker of the House or the Minority Leader -- depending on the Congressman or Senator's political affiliation -- will control 75% of that Congressman or Senator's votes, as allocated above. The remaining votes will be cast as not present.
  11. Any member of Congress may bring a bill up for discussion in their respective chamber, however, it is the duty of the presiding member of the chamber - the Speaker in the House and the Vice President (or the President Pro Tempore in the VP's absence) in the Senate.
  12. Bills are required to pass both Houses of Congress and then must be signed or vetoed by the President, Congress may override a Presidential veto with a 2/3rds majority in both Houses.


Current Party Platforms
Republican Party Platform
The representatives of the Republicans of the United States, assembled in general convention on the shores of the Mississippi River, the everlasting bond of an indestructible Republic, whose most glorious chapter of history is the record of the Republican Party, congratulate their countrymen on the majestic march of the nation under the banners inscribed with the principles of our platform of 1888, vindicated by victory at the poll and prosperity in our fields, workshops and mines, and make the following declaration of principles:

We reaffirm the American doctrine of protection. We call attention to its growth abroad. We maintain that the prosperous condition of our country is largely due to the wise revenue legislation of the Republican Congress.

We believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor, there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. We assert that the prices of manufactured articles of general consumption have been reduced under the operations of the tariff act of 1890.

We denounce the efforts of the Democratic majority of the House of Representatives to destroy our tariff laws by piecemeal, as manifested by their attacks upon wool, lead and lead ores, the chief products of a number of States, and we ask the people for their judgement thereon.

We point to the success of the Republican policy of reciprocity, under which our export trade has vastly increased and new and enlarged markets have been opened for the products of our farms and workshops. We remind the people of the bitter opposition of the Democratic party to this practical business measure, and claim that, executed by a Republican administration, our present laws will eventually give us control of the trade of the world.

The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bi-metallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the government, shall be as good as any other.

We commend the wise and patriotic steps already taken by our government to secure an international conference, to adopt such measures as will insure a parity of value between gold and silver for use as money throughout the world.

We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot in all public elections, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast; that such laws shall be enacted and enforced as will secure to every citizen, be he rich or poor, native or foreign-born, white or black, this sovereign right, guaranteed by the Constitution. The free and honest popular ballot, the just and equal representation of all the people, as well as their just and equal protection under the laws, are the foundation of our Republican institutions, and the party will never relax its efforts until the integrity of the ballot and the purity of elections shall be fully guaranteed and protected in every State.

Southern Outrages

We denounce the continued inhuman outrages perpetrated upon American citizens for political reasons in certain Southern States of the Union.

Foreign Relations

We favor the extension of our foreign commerce, the restoration of our mercantile marine by home-built ships, and the creation of a navy for the proctection of our National interests and the honor of our flag; the maintenance of the most friendly relations with all foreign powers; entangling alliances with none; and the protection of the rights of our fishermen.

We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe Doctrine and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of the Republic in its broadest sense.
We favor the enactment of stringent laws and regulations for the restriction of criminal, pauper and contract immigration.

Miscellaneous

We favor efficient legislation by Congress to protect the life and limbs of employees of transportation companies engaged in carrying inter-State commerce, and recommend legislation by the respective States that will protect employees engaged in State commerce, in mining and manufacturing.

The Republican party has always been the champion of the oppressed and recognizes the dignity of manhood, irrespective of faith, color, or nationality; it sympathizes with the cause of home rule in Ireland, and protests against the persecution of the Jews in Russia.

The ultimate reliance of free popular government is the intelligence of the people, and the maintenance of freedom among men. We therefore declare anew our devotion to liberty of thought and conscience, of speech and press, and approve all agencies and instrumentalities which contribute to the eduction of the children of the land, but while insisting upon the fullest measure of religious liberty, we are opposed to any union of Church and State.

We reaffirm our opposition, declared in the Republican platform of 1888, to all combinations of capital organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens.

We heartily indorse the action already taken upon this subject, and ask for further such legislation as may be required to remedy any defects in existing laws, and to render their enforcement more complete and effective.

We approve the policy of extending to towns, villages and rural communities the advantages of the free delivery service, now enjoyed by the larger cities of the country, and reaffirm the declaration contained in the Republican platform of 1888, pledging the reduction of letter postage to 1 cent at the earliest possible moment consistent with the maintenance of the Post Office Department and the highest class of postal service.

We commend the spirit and evidence of reform in the civil service, and the wise and consistent enforcement by the Republican party of the laws regulating the same.

Nicaragua Canal

The construction of the Nicaragua Canal is of the highest importance to the American people, both as a measure of National defense and to build up and maintain American commerce, and it should be controlled by the United States Government.

Territories

We favor the admission of the remaining Territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United States. All the Federal officers appointed for the Territories should be selected from bona-fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable.

Arid Lands

We favor the cession, subject to the homestead laws, of the arid public lands, to the States and Territories in which they lie, under such Congressional restrictions as to disposition, reclamation and occupancy of settlers as will secure the maximum benefits to the people.

The Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition is a great national undertaking, and Congress should promptly enact such reasonable legislation in aid thereof as will insure a discharge of the expenses and obligations incident thereto, and the attainment of results commensurate with the dignity and progress of the Nation.

Intemperance

We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality.

Pensions

Ever mindful of the services and sacrifices of the men who saved the life of the Nation, we pledge anew to the veteran soldiers of the Republic a watchful care and recognition of their just claims upon a grateful people.

Harrison’s Administration

We commend the able, patriotic and thoroughly American administration of President Harrison. Under it the country has enjoyed remarkable prosperity and dignity and honor of the Nation, at home and abroad, have been faithfully maintained, and we offer the record of pledges kept as a guarantee of faithful performance in the future.

Democratic Party Platform:
The representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in National Convention assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party, as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland; we believe the public welfare demands that these principles be applied to the conduct of the Federal Government, through the accession to power of the party that advocates them; and we solemnly declare that the need of a return to these fundamental principles of free popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the Federal capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our Government under the Constitution as framed by the fathers of the Republic.

We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institutions, that the policy of Federal control of elections, to which the Republican party has committed itself, is fraught with the gravest of dangers, scarcely less momentous than would result from a revolution practically establishing a monarchy on the ruins of the Republic. It strikes at the North as well as at the South, and injures the colored citizen even more than the white; it means a horde of deputy marshals at every polling place, armed with Federal power; returning boards appointed and controlled by Federal authority, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several States, the subjugation of the colored people to the control of the party in power, and the reviving of race antagonisms, now happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness of all; a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading Republican Senator as "The most infamous bill that ever cross the threshold of the Senate." Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of office-holders, and the party first entrusted with its machinery could be dislodged from power only by an appeal to the reserved right of the people to resist oppression, which is inherent in all self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the polls, but in contempt of that verdict the Republican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coming elections will mean enactment of the Force Bill and the usurpation of despotic control over elections in all the States.

Believing that the preservation of Republican government in the United States is dependent upon the defeat of this policy of legalized force and fraud, we invite the support of all citizens who desire to see the Constitution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto, which have given our country a hundred years of unexampled prosperity; and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be entrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the Force Bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expenditure, which, in the shirt space of two years, has squandered an enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing Treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the already overtaxed labor of the country.

We denounce Republican protection as fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.

We denounce the McKinley tariff law enacted by the Fifty-first Congress as the culminating atrocity of class legislation; we endorse the efforts made by the Democrats of the present Congress to modify its most oppressive features in the direction of free raw materials and cheaper manufactured goods that enter into general consumption; and we promise its repeal as one of the beneficent results that will follow the action of the people in entrusting power to the Democratic party. Since the McKinley tariff went into operation there have been ten reductions of the wages of the laboring man to one increase. We deny that there has been an increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went into operation, and we point to the fullness and distress, the wage reductions and strikes in the iron trade, as the best possible evidence that no such prosperity has resulted from the McKinley Act.

We call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that after thirty years of restrictive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth, in exchange for our agricultural surplus, the homes and farms of the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of over $2,500,000,000, exclusive of all other forms of indebtedness; that in one of the chief agricultural states of the West there appears a real estate mortgage debt averaging $165 per capita of the total population, and that similar conditions and tendencies are shown to exist in other agricultural-exporting States. We denounce a policy which fosters no industry so much as it does that of the Sheriff.

Trade interchange, on the basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating, is a time-honored doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desires for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges by pretending to establish closer trade relations for a country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural products with other countries that are also agricultural, while erecting a custom=house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the richest countries of the world, that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products, and to exchange therefor commodities which are necessaries and comforts of life among our own people.

We recognize in the Trusts and Combinations, which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of Capital and Labor, a natural consequence of the prohibitive taxes, which prevent the free competition, which is the life of honest trade, but believe their worst evils can be abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary.

The Republican party, while professing a policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, has given away the people's heritage, till now a few railroads and non-resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million (100,000,000) acres of valuable land, to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.

We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman Act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future, which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency.

We recommend that the prohibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be repealed.

Public office is a public trust. We reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic National Convention of 1876 for the reform of the civil service, and we call for the honest enforcement of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a President, as in the recent Republican Convention, by delegations composed largely of his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions and a startling illustration of the methods by which a President may gratify his ambition. We denounce a policy under which the Federal office-holders usurp control of party conventions in the States, and we pledge the Democratic party to reform these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self-government.

The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling respect abroad and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American Continent, whose destiny is closely linked with our own, and we view with alarm the tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternatives of humiliation or war. We favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national defense, to properly maintain the honor and dignity of this country abroad.

This country has always been the refuge of the oppressed from every land - exiles for conscience sake - and in the spirit of the founders our Government we condemn the oppression practised by the Russian Government upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects, and we call upon our National Government in the interest of justice and humanity, by all just and proper means, to use its prompt and best efforts to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominions of the Czar and to secure to the oppressed equal rights.

We tender our profound and earnest sympathy to those lovers of freedom who are struggling for home rule and the great cause of local self-government in Ireland.
We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as the dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe; and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws against Chinese immigration and the importation of foreign workmen under contract, to degrade American labor and lessen its wages; but we condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immigration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands.

This Convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the Pension Office shall be done industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration of that office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful and dishonest.

The Federal Government should care for and improve the Mississippi River and other great waterways of the Republic, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to tide water. When any waterway of the Republic is sufficient importance to demand the aid of the Government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work, until permanent improvement is secured.

For the purposes of national defense and the promotion of commerce between the States, we recognize the early construction of the Nicaragua Canal and its protection against foreign control as of great importance to the United States.

Recognizing the World's Columbian Exposition as a national undertaking of vast importance, in which the General Government has invited the cooperation of all the powers of the world, and appreciating the acceptance by many of such powers of the invitation so extended, and the broad and liberal efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the undertaking, we are of opinion that Congress should make such necessary financial provision as shall be requisite to the maintenance of the national honor and public faith.

Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several States most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common schools are the nursery of good government, and they have always received the fostering care of the Democratic party, which favors every means of increasing intelligence. Freedom of education, being an essential of civil and religious liberty, as well as a necessity for the development of intelligence, must not be interfered with under any pretext whatever. We are opposed to State interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.

We approve the action of the present House of Representatives in passing bills for admitting into the Union as States of the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and we favor the early admission of all the Territories having the necessary population and resources to entitle them to Statehood, and while they remain Territories we hold that the officials appointed to administer the government of any Territory, together with the Districts of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona-fide residents of the Territory or district in which their duties are to be performed. The Democratic party believes in home rule and the control of their own affairs by the people of the vicinage.

We favor legislation by Congress and State Legislatures to protect the lives and limbs of railway employees and those of other hazardous transportation companies, and denounce the inactivity of the Republican party, and particularly the Republican Senate, for causing the defeat of measures beneficial and protective to this class of wage workers.

We are in favor of the enactment by the States of laws for abolishing the notorious sweating system, for abolishing contract convict labor, and for prohibiting the employment in factories of children under 15 years of age.

We are opposed to all sumptuary laws, as an interference with the individual rights of the citizen.

Upon this statement of principles and policies, the Democratic party asks the intelligent judgement of the American people. It asks a change of administration and a change of party, in order that there may be a change of system and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance unimpaired of institutions under which the Republic has grown great and powerful.
 
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William Jennings Bryan​

Name: William Jennings Bryan
Profession: Congressman
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Age: 32
Home State: Nebraska
Bio: Born in Illinois, William Jennings Bryan moved to Nebraska and became a lawyer. The Democratic landslide of 1890 brought Bryan into Congress, only the second Democrat to do so in Nebraska's history.

Net Worth: $84,300
Cash on Hand: $12,500
Debt: $12,100
Political Clout: .25
 
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Name: Lucius Braxton Shaw
Profession: Tobacco Planter
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Age: 33
Home State: North Carolina

Bio: Following the family legacy of agriculture, Lucius manages his family estates, growing Carolinian tobacco for the good people of the United States. However, Lucius pursues another field as well, politics. Intrigued by the Populists and their voice for the farmers, Lucius has advocated for the Democratic Party, mainly in following the "Free Silver" William Jennings Bryan, quite ardently, confident that they have his interests at heart. While he has entertained the thought of entering politics, Lucius is seemingly content with staying with his plantation.

Net Worth: $1,000,000.00
Cash on Hand: $146,069.5
Debt: $0.00
Stocks Owned: 200,000 shares in American Tobacco, 1,350 shares in American Cotton Oil
Stock Value: $769,930.50
Land: 1120 Acres
Companies: Tobacco Plantation
Political Clout: 0.1
 
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Name: Michael White
Profession: Soldier/Businessman
Political Affiliation: Republican
Age: 25 (June 10th, 1867)
Home State: New York
Bio: White's parents were in the upper middle class with White's father serving with the 80th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War as a Lieutenant. His family goes back to a long line of military service stretching back to the American Revolution. His father had also decided to using the money he had accumulated during the War opened a small ranch in Montana. Over the years the ranch expanded a little bit but is still relatively small. Meanwhile White when reaching the age of 18 joined the army and went to West Point to become an officer. After he graduated he advanced from the rank of Lieutenant up to Captain in the armythrough various retirements of current officers. Though a year ago his father died and in his will left the ranch to him as he had no other siblings to inherit the ranch. Currently the Pascoes, a family that has lived in Montana for years look after the ranch until it can be run once again directly by a member of the White family.

Net Worth: $1,000,000.00
Cash on Hand: $869,800.00
Debt: $0.00
Stock Price: $23,800.00
Stocks Owned: 10,000 shares in U.S. Leather
Companies: White Family Ranch
Land: 640 acres
Land Value: $6400.00
Political Clout: 0.1
 
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George Dewey

Name: George Dewey
Profession: Captain in the US Navy
Political Affiliation: None
Age: 55
Home State: Vermont

Net Worth: $700,000
Cash on Hand: $700,000
Debt: $0
Stocks Owned: None
Stock Value: $0
Companies: None
Political Clout: 0.10
 
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Name: Charles F. Crisp
Profession: Speaker of the House
Political Affiliation: Democratic Party
Age: 47
Home State: Georgia
Bio: Born in Sheffield, England, Crisp served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was appointed as solicitor general of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit in 1873. He resigned in 1882 in order to act as the Democratic candidate for the Third Congressional District of Georgia. He took his seat in the House in 1883 and has since rose rapidly through the ranks of the Democratic Party, gaining prestige through his spearheading of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 which gain much support among the farmers and rural folk. Now, as the Speaker of the House and the Democratic Party in power in the House of Representatives, Crisp can take on the challenge of removing Thomas Reed's reforms and strengthening the Democratic Party.
Player: Firelordsky

Net Worth: $1,000,000
Cash on Hand: $252,000
Debt: $0
Stock Price: $648,000
Stocks Owned: North American Co- 900,000 stocks
Stock Value: $648,000
Companies: N/A
Political Clout: .75
 
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Name: Andrew Hawkin
Profession: Congressman/Shipping Magnate
Political Affiliation: Republican
Age: 32
Home State: Massachusetts

Bio: Member of the illustrious Hawkin family, a family which ran the large Hawkin Shipping and Transportation shipping conglomerate, Hawkin grew up as a privileged individual who wanted nothing. despite his privileged upbringing, his father had an interesting tradition, where his kids would have to work the ships. While this was mainly an effort to increase the popularity of the company, it did teach the Hawkin kids to be responsible, hard workers. Andrew later, along with his brothers, attended Harvard University, where he became a distinguished student. Hawkin also cultivated a great interest in history, and politics, while at Harvard. After graduating, Hawkin managed to convince his father that the family should venture into politics. After that, the family began cultivating strong relations with the Republican Party, leading to Hawkin holding several important local offices. This all lead to Hawkin being made the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District in 1892. Hawkin then won said seat in a rather decisive win.

Personality: Hawkin is a relatively young, handsome man. He is incredibly intelligent, and has a strong understanding of history. He is rather charismatic, and charming. He also has been known for having affairs with women, a habit that might land him into trouble one day.

Name: Andrew Hawkin
Profession: Congressman/Shipping Magnate
Political Affiliation: Republican
Age: 32
Home State: Massachusetts
Player: jeeshadow
Net Worth: $1,000,000.00
Cash on Hand: $518,400.00
Debt: $0.00
Stock Price: $381,600.00
Stocks Owned: American Sugar Refining Co: 50,000 Shares, American Tobacco: 50,000 Shares, Standard Oil: 30,000 Shares
Companies: Hawkin Shipping and Transportation
Political Clout: 0.75
 
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The Commander in his civvies

Name: Cedric Richard Ashcroft
Profession: Navy (Commander on the USS Baltimore)
Political Affiliation: Republican (Mugwump)
State: New Hampshire
Born: 27 (4 October 1864)
Biography: Born in Manchester, and raised in Portsmouth, C.R. Ashcroft grew up in the sterile, cold home of his mother, a well-known abolitionist and prohibitionist, as his father was killed at the battle of Mobile some months before. Though from a well-to-do family, and (formerly) married into another, Ashcroft’s mother decided to bolster the household budget (and her own name) by becoming a writer for the up-and-coming newspaper, the Concord Monitor (which she also invested in quite generously).

Due to his restrained childhood, and him being an only child, Cedric took to reading and writing, and according to one of his tutors, he “was a thoroughly indolent and slothful child, more prone to be reading Poe and Emerson than doing his proper work” as well as being “utterly disinterested in studying aside from history and literature.” It was that love of literature and history that would change his life.

His mother may well have wanted him to follow in her footsteps and become a writer, or perhaps even the editor of the Monitor one day, but during one of his lessons, he parsed through some rather dull account of American history when he caught sight of Stephen Decatur, whose daring and skill at sea captivated the young man, who soon tasked himself with a rigid, though highly informal, naval education.

After begging his mother relentlessly for several years, she finally acceded and allowed him to enrol in the Naval Academy (her being friends with Congressman Ossian Ray certainly helped speed the process along); during his time there he gained a reputation as an exceptional and popular student, the latter largely on the merits of his success as one of the first Midshipmen, as well as his position as one of the academy’s leading reformers (some debate whether it was Admiral Sims or Commander Ashcroft who inspired the Academy’s tradition of Salty Sam). In 1885, after four years at Annapolis, he graduated with honours at the top of his class.

Then Ensign Ashcroft served aboard the USS Waban, before his promotion to full lieutenant, after which he served on multiple vessels. In 1889, shortly after his promotion to commander, he was serving on board the Viking when, whilst on patrol in the Caribbean, some particularly arrogant pirate attempted to seize the ship, perhaps thinking the small vessel was just a yacht; he was sorely mistaken. The attacking vessel was sunk and most of the crew seized. With this distinction, along with an impeccable record, Ashcroft was given a command on the USS Baltimore, shortly thereafter (he was originally intended to join the Maine, but due to her protracted construction, he was temporarily posted on the this protected cruiser instead).

In 1891, during a Washington gala he attended, he happened to meet Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge’s daughter Constance, whom he's tried, and thus far failed, to court (largely due to his family’s lack of wealth and standing). It was due to her father, however, that he became more invested in politics; largely regarded as a sensible and mainstream Republican, he nonetheless quietly endorsed Grover Cleveland over his own party’s candidate in the past election.

Net Worth: $600,000.00
Cash on hand: $200,000.00
Debt: 0
Stocks Owned: 5000 in General Electric, 2500 in Standard Oil
Stock Value: $13,375.00
Companies: N/A
Political Clout: .10
 
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Name: Zebulon T. Abernathy
Profession: Senator/Steel and Railroad Magnate
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Age: 52
Home State: Alabama

Bio: Born in 1840 to the Abernathy family, which possessed large plantations throughout Alabama, the young Zebulon experienced a privileged upbringing and was able to go to the best schools that money could buy. In 1858 he took up studies at the University of Alabama, studying primarily in Finance. His studies were cut short three years later however with the outbreak of the American Civil War. After Alabama followed the other states in declaring secession from the United States he joined the Confederate Army. Serving in the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment, which was later joined with other Alabama Regiments to form The Alabama Brigade, he engaged in a lot of fighting and fought in notable engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Lookout Valley, the Knoxville Campaign, the Battle of the Wilderness and the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign. After the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865, Zebulon and his regiment were paroled and returned to their homes in Alabama. Zebulon himself returned to his studies and completed them in 1868, afterwards returning to the family's main homestead to help oversee the running of the plantations. After a few years, during which he earned a sizable chunk of the profits, he left his duties and headed north to Tennessee. Once there he acquired a managerial position in the Tennessee Coal and Rail Company, helping to run the Cowan mines. Performing his duties to the best of his abilities, Zebulon proved himself to be a competent and somewhat inspiring man. Thus in 1876, when Thomas O'Connor purchased the company, he was promoted to run both the Cowan and Tracy City mining facilities. In 1885 he was promoted to the position of Corporate General Superintendent and helped to oversee the purchase of Pratt Co. the following year. However, after serving the company for a total of fourteen years he found himself bored and seeking his own success and thus he offered his resignation and returned home. Borrowing money from his family and their friends, Zebulon managed to organize enough financing to found his own company, Abernathy Steel & Railroad Co. First opening up in southern Alabama it quickly spread to operate in most of the state and then to Georgia and Mississippi. Using his new found wealth, Zebulon began to invest in the Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Co, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and finally North American Co. He also began to take an interest in politics and using his money and connections throughout the state of Alabama he managed to get himself elected to the United States Senate in 1888. Holding that position ever since and continuing to watch his company and investments grow, Zebulon has become a wealthy and influential man in the southern states.

Net Worth: $1,000,000.00
Cash on Hand: $201,545.00
Debt: $0.00
Stocks Owned: 150,000 shares in Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Co, 2,000 shares in Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, 2,500 shares in Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 5,000 shares in Union Pacific Railroad, 2,500 shares in Northern Pacific Railway, 1,500 shares in Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 150,000 shares in North American Co
Stock Value: $798,455.00
Companies: Abernathy Steel & Railroad Co.
Political Clout: 0.75
 
Name: Matthew O'Connor
Profession: Congressman and Lawyer
Political Affiliation: Democratic Party
Age: 36
Home State: Illinois
Bio: A congressman of Irish descent, Matthew O'Connor worked as a foreman in a railroad company in Illinois when he was young, he quickly pursued a law degree after working for a few years to collect a decent fortune. Matthew has always had democratic ideals, and thus he ran with the support he gained from his background as a workingman to represent Illinois in the congress. He also runs a law firm when not acting as a congressman and is known throughout Illinois as a truthful and principled young man who can be trusted with his duty. Matthew invests his money back into railroad companies as a token to his background.
Player: Matth34

Net Worth: $1,000,000.00
Cash on Hand: $280,100
Debt: $0.00
Stocks Owned: 50,000 General Electric, 10,000 Standard Oil, 15,000 U.S Leather, 100,000 Pullman Co.
Stock Value: $619,900
Companies: O'Connor Law Firm
Political Clout: 0.75
 
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Name: Grover Cleveland
Profession: President of the United States
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Age: 55
Home State: New York
Bio: Cleveland is the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who oppose high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism has made him an icon for American conservatives. Cleveland has won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. He has relentlessly fought political corruption, patronage and bossism. Indeed, as a reformer his prestige was so strong that the like-minded wing of the Republican Party, called "Mugwumps", largely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his support in the 1884 election.
Player: Dutchbag

Net Worth: $3,100,000
Cash on Hand: $3,000,000
Debt: -
Stock Price: -
Stocks Owned: -
Companies: -
Political Clout: 1 (He is the President)
 
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Name: Richard Croker
Profession: Political Chief of Tammany Society (Society of St. Tammany, Sons of St. Tammany, Columbian Order)
Political Affiliation: Democratic Party
State: New York
Born: November 24, 1843

Biography: The son of Eyre Coote Croker and Frances Laura Welsted, Richard Croker was born in the parish of Ardfield, Ireland. Two years after his birth, his family emigrated to the United States in search of the typical 'land of opportunity.' Unlike other Irish immigrants, they were Protestant, and were not land tenants. Eyre Coote Croker owned an estate in Ardfield, but he was a inefficient manager. Within a short space of time, he was as poor as his tenants.

Croker was educated in the public schools of New York City, where he eventually became a member of the Tammany Hall political machine. He served as a alderman from 1868-1870 and a coroner from 1873-1876. He later moved to Harrison, New York, but returned to the city to serve as the New York City Fire Commissioner, and then city Chamberlain under Mayor Hugh J. Grant. Following the death of previous boss, John Kelly, Croker became the leader of Tammany Hall, and managed to grapple absolute control over the entire organization. As head of Tammany, Croker received bribe money from the owners of brothels, saloons and illegal gambling dens. He is currently entangled in resisting Charles Henry Parkhurst's attacks on Tammany Hall's corruption.

Net Worth: $2,000,000.00 ((I took a educated guess based off his wealth quantities at the time of his death.))
Cash on Hand: $580,000
Debt: $0.00
Stocks Owned: - (WiP)
Stock Value: - (Wip)
Companies: - (WiP)
Political Clout: 0.4
 
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Name: Victor R. Norris (Viktor Romanovich Nikonov)
Profession: Congressman (California's 2nd Congressional District)
Political Affiliation: Democratic Party
State: California
Date of Birth: May 27th, 1863
Age: 29

Biography: Viktor was born to two upper-middle class Russian immigrants in Nizhny Novgorod, his father was a successful tradesmen and his mother was from a small landowning family. They immigrated to California in 1866, looking to capitalize on United States' of America's bright economic future. His father, Roman, started a successful furniture company which allowed for Viktor and his two siblings to attend grammar school in San Francisco then attend the University of California, San Francisco majoring in English and History. His family became increasingly wealthy with the growth of his families furniture company: Roman's Furniture. Viktor became active in politics, donating funds and being on the campaign team of Edward B. Pond's run for Mayor of San Francisco, as well as being a close campaign adviser to Washington Bartlett during his successful run for Governor of California in 1887.

In May 1888, Viktor Americanized his name and married Caroline Keynes-Smith, a socialite and daughter of agricultural magnate Thomas Keynes-Smith. The marriage increased Victor's influence and wealth substantially, leading him to run for Congress in the 1890 Congressional election. Funds from both his father's and father-in-law's companies helped him in securing the necessary funds and influence to win by a large margin against the Republican candidate.

Net Worth: $1,000,000
Cash on Hand: $265,000
Debts: $0
Stocks Owned: 2,000 Standard Oil, 5,000 North Pacific Railway, 5,000 American Sugar Refining Co.
Stock Value: $39,090
Companies: N/A
Political Clout: 0.75
 
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Name: Andrew William Shaw
Profession: Naval officer, Captain; commander of cruiser USS Boston
Political Affiliation: Republican Party
Age: 39 years of age; born 7 January 1853
Home State: Pennsylvania
Bio: Shaw, born into a military household, bore striking resemblance to his father. His father (George Charles) before him had, likewise, been a military man; he had been the commanding officer of USS Manhattan, one of the four ironclads that participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay; when USS Tecumseh struck a mine while leading the charge into the Bay, Shaw had barely time enough to steer his ship clear from the sinking ironclad, having been trailing close behind. After the Union victory was assured, he accepted the surrender of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, commander of the Confederate ironclad Tennessee.

Having idolized his father all throughout his youth, Andrew joined up with the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy in 1875. Shaw almost immediately became an expert in naval gunnery at all ranges, and after being promoted to Captain and being commissioned as commander of the new cruiser Boston in September 1880, he almost constantly drilled his crew in gunnery exercises at extreme ranges. He quickly became an advocate for expanding the United States Navy to much larger sizes, in order to enforce the nation's interests worldwide; however, he will, regardless, do his duty to the nation and the people to the best of his ability.


Player: MastahCheef117, of course!
Net Worth: $1,000,000
Cash on Hand: $180,000
Debt: $15,000
Stock Price: $1,185.00
Stocks Owned: 500 shares in Standard Oil
Companies: --
Political Clout: 0 (naval officer)
 
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Everyone here except Cheef is a blithering liar. "No Debt" >.>
 
Don't worry people will have a form of upkeep... there was a reason for the $100k reserve...

Also the game will probably start Tuesday Night or Wednesday Pacific Time.
 
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Name: David S. Mausche
Profession: Banker and Industrialist
Political Affiliation: None
Age: 42; born 8 November 1850
Home State: New York
Bio: A first-generation immigrant, Mausche was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine into a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family. His upbringing was comfortable, and his education expensive, attending the University of Paris from 1869. Although his Parisian studies kept him away from the initial German invasion, with the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, he was soon caught in a maelstrom of strife and conflict. Fleeing the emergence of the Paris Commune, Mausche emigrated to London briefly, and then onto the United States, where he arrived near-penniless in New York, at the tender age of 22.

For the next decade Mausche would strive to step onto and ascend the greasy pole of capital. He found work as a clerk at a small Wall Street firm, before moving into accountancy for a number years at several different banks and financial firms. His capital grew, alongside his fiscal experience and connections. By the age of 30 he had ascended into managerial positions, and by 35 into executive and shareholdering roles. Like many others he began with modest investments into rail-roads, utilising his income from banking, and soon his interests grew into sugar, tobacco, and other growing sectors. Mausche became a growing figure on the New York Stock Exchange, founding his own merchant bank in 1890 with a number of New York associates, Mausche & Co. The initial fortunes of his company have been spectacular, and Mausche's star seems ever-ascendant.

Net Worth: $800,000.00
Cash on Hand: $190,000.00
Debt: None
Stocks Owned:
  • 100,000 in American Sugar Refining Co.
  • 100,000 in American Cotton Oil
  • 25,000 in American Tobacco
  • 10,000 in Northern Pacific Railway
  • 10,000 in Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
  • 10,000 in General Electric
Stock Value: $610,000.00
Companies: Mausche & Co
Political Clout: 0.10

Player: Watercress
 
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Name: John Lind
Profession: Congressman
Political Affiliation: Republican
Age: 38 (March 25, 1854)
Home State: Minnesota
Bio: Born in Sweden, Lind emigrated to America with his family at the age of 13 to the German-dominated city of New Ulm where he quickly learned to speak German almost fluently. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and became a lawyer. His loyalty to the Republican Party was noted in the following years and he was awarded a Republican nomination to Congress in 1886 which led to his easy election in the Second Congressional District in 1887, thanks to his connections with the Swedes and Germans in the district plus the fact that a majority of the district was Republican. Since then, Lind has been reelected twice and still represents his district with his firmly moderate republican views.

Player: Haresus
Net Worth: $1,000,000
Cash on Hand: $700,000
Debt: $25,000
Stocks Owned: 10,000 shares in North Pacific Railway
Stock Value: $45,000
Companies: N/A
Political Clout: 0.75