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John T. Sherman for President!
 
Fine people of the Federal Party, this is one of the most important elections yet fought. Not though as last time I was elected because we were required to act on the world stage, but because with each recurring victory for the Republicans the reforms which we struggled to pass get rolled back, because inequality is rearing its ugly head once again, because the welfare state and the sustainable economic system which supports it is being disassembled every four years we are not in power, though it has thus far clung to life due to our efforts in Congress.

This is why I ask you to nominate me once again, the struggle won't be easy I know, but it's possible. While we may not have secured the numbers needed to pass the Constitutional amendments required to further democratise our system we did secure a majority, and I feel that we can maintain that majority in a Presidential election.

I have talked with Mr. Sullivan and he has agreed to enter an electoral alliance with our party, and rightly so! The forces of progress should stand together against those of reaction, which become increasingly dependent upon the support of those who favour the continuation of Jim Crow. ((Well that's what he agreed in PM's anyway, if his standing means he backed out disregard this.))

Fellow Federals, I humbly ask once again for your support and nomination, so the next four years may be ones of progress!
 
Friends and compatriots,

I do not request that you vote for me on the basis of my desire to become the Republican nominee, but because I believe I am the best choice. Under my watch, the Southern states will be free from unwelcome federal intervention on the issue of Jim Crow. As has been demonstrated by Mr. Jarvis' failures, federal intervention will not solve the issue, but rather aggravate it and make it worse. The South must be allowed to solve the issue at its own rate.

The American economy has undergone its greatest expansion under minimum government intervention, and so I believe that non-interventionism should continue.

I will not recognize the false, rebel government of Germany, however I do not advocate any intervention on either side of the conflict. Europe is not affair, and we should not stuck our noses in it.
 
(I'd like to point out to Mikeboy that negotiations are still pending on any Federal-Progressive alliance, which is to say that I sent him a response to his request for the alliance but never heard back on his acceptance of my terms. Until something gets finalized with both parties agreeing on it in PMs before a public announcement, I'm not going to address it in-character.)

I call upon all fair-minded, hard-working Americans to unite behind the banner of the Progressive Party! I have spent the last twelve years campaigning tirelessly for your fundamental rights as American citizens both in the governor's mansion and at podiums across this great nation, and if I am elected President, I will continue that fight in the Oval Office! You have seen how President Jarvis attempted to dismantle our great nation with his regressive anarcho-capitalist tax policies, which I led the charge in opposing, and we all know his Vice-President and fellow Republican cohorts will attempt the same if elected.

The Republican Party envisions a world of neo-feudalism, where wealthy capitalists reign unchallenged over their working peasants without interference from the federal government, where wealth remains concentrated in the hands of the few and the privileged, those lucky enough to be born into the upper class. As President, I will end President Jarvis' regressive flat tax and restore the progressive taxation system that made our country truly great. For the working man, 10% of a week's wages is a great deal, while a 10% sacrifice for a stock trader simply means having to save a bit longer to re-furnish his third home. The United States once stood for the idea that having great privilege should entail an equally great responsibility to those who have less, and if I am elected President, it will again.

As President, I will end the unconstitutional Jim Crow laws preventing racial minorities from voting by enforcing the laws already in place. The 14th Amendment guarantees equal representation to all citizens of this country, regardless of their skin color, and I will take whatever steps necessary to end this unconstitutional and morally-reprehensible discrimination in place across the Southern states. I will not waver in this goal, no matter how many reactionaries rise up to defend their unjust privilege.

Moreover, I will propose strong but fair regulations on banks, stock-trading firms, and other financial institutions, to prevent the Great Boom from becoming the Great Bust. We have seen an artificial prosperity during the Jarvis years, ballooned by risky loans and debt-based finance, and its collapse will spell the end of the American way of life that we all treasure, particularly for those who toil the hardest to support this prosperity.

Finally, I will keep the United States out of foreign wars and restore her primacy as the champion of the American continents, so that European countries cannot bring their ancient feuds and strife into the New World. I will implement the Organization of American States proposed four years ago, to create a common forum for American nations to keep our states and peoples strong and free.

If you seek fairness, justice, and equal opportunity for all, vote Progressive. If you wish to avoid foreign wars and entanglements, vote Progressive. If you share my concerns for the direction of this country and the fate of its people, vote Progressive!
 
((New guy, hopefully this will shake things up a bit.))
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Name: Lenard Jenkins
Occupation: New York City Councillor, leader of the Socialist Labor Party ((Despite his smaller political position his power over the radical left in the country due to his leadership of socialist labor is what he derives the power to have a vote in the election from))
Ideology: Radical Left
Age:33
History: Born to a poor family in the lower Manhattan, Lenard's father worked in a textile factory and was involved in union activies. The factory, owned by the "Titans of Industry", soon began to crack down on it's workforce, union-busters were sent in to assault and harrass, union members, and suspected "Radicals". Disgusted by this behavior Lenards father fought against the thugs but, was overpowered and killed. Seeking justice the Jenkins family went to court, but the companies well-pade lawyers were able to outfox the attorney provided for them. Lenard would never forget that fact and worked his way through law-school vowing to assist poorer individuals who were victims of powerful corporations. However in college he met some members of the Socialist Labor party, a successor to the old Vinogradist libertarian party, and decided a better way to save the country was to help fix the system. Upon graduating he ran for a seet in the city council and won a narrow victory over the Republican and corporate backed incumbent. Since then he has rose through the ranks of the Socialist Labor party and is now its de facto leader, he wishes to form another leftist coalition with progressives and leftist federals to take the place of the long defunct democratic party. However his true dream is to bring socialism to America and spread his brand of economic justice across the nation.
 
((Yo, already running a socialist party with a radical-left political leader over here.))

((EDIT: Which is to say that you should join up with me instead of making your own small party, not like "GO AWAY LOSER" or anything.))
 
((Yo, already running a socialist party with a radical-left political leader over here.))
((Your still marked as an independent though, your party needs more members so I was hoping to bring in the far-left element and merge with your current party to make a new one.))
 
((Your still marked as an independent though, your party needs more members so I was hoping to bring in the far-left element and merge with your current party to make a new one.))

((Right, but if you join my party now you won't have to do the whole merger thing and it'll become a major party! This goes for you too, atomicsoda.))
 
((Right, but if you join my party now you won't have to do the whole merger thing and it'll become a major party! This goes for you too, atomicsoda.))
Right my character wouldn't join your party right now, he is more of a hardcore socialist then a progressive.))
 
I will endorse my Vice President, Simon Ritter, and would suggest making Horshington, or another pro-civil rights member of the party to the vice presidency, if only to ensure both the reformers, like myself, and the conservatives, like Mr. Stewart. That, in my opinion, would be the best course for the moderate candidate.

And whilst I could dismantle Sullivan's critique of my administration, I shall not waste my breath and energy, and instead focus all my efforts to ensure a third term in the White House for the Republicans, the best choice for America.

((Really, I would endorse Horshington, but Ritter was my VP, and a good one, so he'll gain my support))
 
((I'll take our conversation to PMs. In the meantime...))

The Platform of the Progressive Party

Trade Policy: Protectionism
Trade policy must be focused primarily on benefiting the American worker and the American consumer, not with increasing corporate profit margins. While foreign trade should be encouraged, it should also be tempered with concern for domestic production. American factories and those who depend on them come first.

Economic Policy: State Capitalism
Capitalism should continue to exist, albeit under strong governmental oversight and regulation. Without governmental controls, capitalists will naturally seek to oppress and exploit their workers, a consequence which should be avoided at all costs.

Religious Policy: Secularized
The right to worship according to one's own beliefs shall not be infringed. At the same time, religion should not be in any way connected to government policy. Religion is a private matter and should remain that way.

Citizenship Policy: Full Citizenship
Any citizen of the United States is entitled to his or her full civil rights as guaranteed by the Constitution, without discrimination due to race, class, or gender.

War Policy: Anti-Military
While the American military serves a vital role in defending our country from foreign aggression, it should not be used as a method of imposing government policy on other nations or thrown into needless conflicts unrelated to American interests. Investment in the military should be primarily focused on self-defense and border protection.

((Progressives should probably be considered Socialist POPs, in that they support both social and political reforms.))
 
((I apologize for the multiple messages but this is the result of some forum PMs, so here goes.))

To Councilman Leonard Jenkins of the Socialist Labor Party,

Good day, sir. My name is Michael Sullivan and I am the head of the Progressive Party, as you may already know from my Presidential candidacy four years ago. I believe we have a great deal in common, you and I, and I have the great pleasure to formally invite you and your Socialist Labor Party to join the Progressive Party, with yourself as a party officer.

As strong labor advocates and believers in economic and social justice, we can work together to strengthen the cause of fairness across the country and build a party with broad, lasting support. With your support in the Northeast and my political base in the Midwest, the Progressive Party will be a stronger, better organization capable of taking on both of the reigning political parties.

Enclosed you will find two train tickets to Springfield, where I look forward to speaking further with you in the governor's mansion with whoever you choose to bring. It is my great hope that we can find common ground together and make an announcement that will make social progress a lasting issue for the coming decades.

Sincerely,
Michael Sullivan
Governor of the Great State of Illinois
Founder, American Progressive Party
 
At least I can agree with three of your positions, Mr. Sullivan; I have been a firm opponent to war (though I was a pacifist), I support full citizenship, and I believe in secularism... Your economic views, however, are... less than savoury, to say the least.

Protectionism may protect American industry, but it also promotes inefficiency, high prices (unless, of course, you endorse price controls (which would, in turn discredit your attack of my administrations artificial growth)), and serves to make Americans settle for more expensive, lower quality goods, or for highly expensive foreign goods. And what about good not made here in the United States? Are they going to have these protective tariffs in place?

Worse still, is your belief that the Federal Government is the only way to protect workers. We have unions, and it has been incredibly apparent that businessmen, if they want to ensure they keep their workers, have to have some incentive to work there, either by increasing wages, being meritocratic (and therefore helping raise the poor from their poverty), or having high qualities. The quality of life has gone up more in my term than in any other term previous, only showcases that reform and progress not only can happen, but happen more easily and effectively, without government interference.
 
-An Impassioned Address to the Delegates in Congress (Feburary 7, 1924)

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Southerns, Northerns, Countrymen lend me your ears; I come to plead for Jim Crow, not to praise it. The evil that said policy does is oft spoken of; The good is forgotton by many; So let it be with Jim Crow. The noble Governer Sullivan has told you Jim Crow is evil: If it is so, it would be our duty to repeal it.
In Congress, under watch of Sullivan and the rest, for Congress is an honourable body; so are you all, all honourable men, I come to plead Jim Crow. It has kept peace & order in streets one dominated by Trial Riots, but Sullivan says it is evil, and Sullivan is an honourable man. A compromise between total equality and total discrimination it has kept the KKK from recovering as a signifigant force; does this element of Jim Crow seem evil? When the Southern People Groaned under the weight of Northern Military occupation did Jim Crow not satisfy them both? Evil should be less acceptable to the public. Yet Sullivan says it is evil and Sullivan is an Honourable man. All of the Older Delgates saw during the Little Anarchy that the Southern Republic of the Confederate States of America had the perfect oppurtunity to rise again, but Jim Crow mollified most of the people and even created some pro-union Southerners, was this evil?! But Sullivan says that the laws are evil and Sullivan is surely an Honourable Man. I speak not to disprove what Sullivan has said, However I am hear to speak what I know. Jim Crow was acceptable to all of you once, and not without cause. What cause then withholds you from seeing its benifits now? Judgement has been sacrificed to hopeless idealism and men have lost thier reason!

(At this time Stewart is stated to have paused and taken a small drink from the podium)

-Bear with me, My heart has been flung out with my words and I must wait until it returns to me. For many decades Jim Crow has kept peace on the streets of my beloved homeland, now Jim Crow is threatened and I fear that my homeland is with it. Noone seems to remember the conflict that destroyed my country anymore and the measures instituted to prevent the reccurance of that Tidal wave of destruction. Honourable delegates, If I were here to steer your minds to mutiny from your party lines I would do Sullivan and Jarvis wrong who as you all know, are honourable men. I happen to have a paper before me with the benifits of these disputed codes listed out. However I dare not read it for fear of disrupting your ideologies by informing you how much Jim Crow has benifited you. it would do a disservice to the effort of my counterparts to mention that Jim Crow did indeed establish an educational system for blacks where none one before. It would likewise be wrong of me to mention that by accomidating for limited discrimination Jim Crow has allowed both Agriculture and Industry to flourish with a supply of cheap labour that is certainly good for the country. For me to mention tha specific codes like poll taxes that discourage voting among the poor alllows for the votes of more educated and informed people like yourselves to be worth more, and thus paving the way for more efficient governance, would be a terrible disservice to our Partisan minds. Finally, to mention that the lower wages of African Soldiers helped enable us to field larger armies than our enemies in the Great War, and therfore triumph over jackbooted authoritarianism and barbarism whilst protecting our Beacon of Democracy, would be the greatest evil of all. Like I have said before I say this not to praise Jim Crow, but only to state what I know in my heart. That if one examines it through the eyes of calm reason, Jim Crow is better for our country than a lack of it.

Now I ask that you stay and please listen just a little while longer, and do me the honour of examining the arguements of Sullivan and his confidants. The progressives claim that the Republican party wishes for an America where Greedy Capitalists and Haughty Aristocrats reign unresricted over the cold and hungry masses doomed by misfortune or birth to serve them. And yet our current Republican President, Jarvis, refused to end his opposoition to the very Jim Crow laws that they claim will lead to this serfdom. The deregulation and institution of what Sullivan calls "Regressive", a flat tax, helped continue economic growth thaat filled the general coffers when the logic of the boom-bust cycle dictated otherwise, was this serfdom? I implore, no I beg, you all to examine these arguements made by Sullivan against Jim Crom and the Economics of the Republican Party and to determine whether or not these Hounourable Men are truly acting in the best intrests of our great Republic.

((BTW I would like this added to the speeches list))
 
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(((My Friend have introduced this to me. My english are ok, but not very well. Hope you can understand. Can I still be in the game?)))

John T. Sherman

and no to bill of rights

((Yes You can still be in the game, but the bill of rights has already passed. It is also highly recommended that you create a persona for purposes of role-playing. Where are you from? (If you don't mind me asking)))
 
OOC: It is a good idea to make a southerner, they are cool ;-p

((Didn't I once call you "That danish guy" or something like that back in the days of the good old SNP? Im still sorry about/laughing at that :p))
 
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