1. Laetitia
History 122
3/17/2012
The week of July 6th 1912
Important invents from this week.
3/17/2012
2. Table of context:
1. The old fashioned convention
2. The new world
3. The Baltimore Buckler Thorne
4. Mr. Roosevelt's opportunity
5. Tightening the Civic purse
strings
6. America’s Olympic Argonauts
7. Mrs. Murphy Capitalist
8. A Motor picnic abroad
9. The young Lawyer talks
politics
10. Advertisement 2
3. The old fashion convention
*At the time of the writing of the this article the Democratic National Convention was
going on.
– “It is beyond any question that a real convention is proceeding at Baltimore. That the delegates are
there to choose a candidate for president, and that they’re working faithfully on the job.”
*Roosevelt against Bryan both representing the bull moose party.
4. The Bills Discounted 48 percent
It’s set on the second page of
the newspaper, to attract
people. Advertising “No Rim
Cut Tires.”
5. The New World
• The New World Idea
– “There is nowadays a spreading of an idea which
has been lurking in the world for at least 2
thousand years. –We have lived in a civilization
reared upon the theory that each man is a
separate unit who has accomplished the whole
duty of man if he takes care of himself and his
family, and possibly here and there 1 or 2 others
that appeal to him…”
7. The Baltimore Buckler Throne
*After the Baltimore convention is over:
Describing the scenes as it ends, and the
inside of the convention hall.
“It was different inside the hall much
different. There occurred a series of scenes
as wild as any enacted in recent American
Political history.”
8. Mr. Roosevelt’s opportunity
• The opportunities of Roosevelt after the turn
out of the convention.
- “If He has Courage and Principles than this
is the favorable time for him to render A Great
Public Service.”
9. Tightening the Civic purse strings
• Henry Clay’s Tax meeting committee in
Philadelphia
- “He wanted the city ran just like a business
concern. He discovered that, while the Bullitt
Bill was carefully drawn to act as a sort of civic
cash register, the law was failing in this
purpose because its provision were being
dodged or absolutely ignored.”
11. Mrs. Murphy Capitalist
• Mrs. Murphy the wash lady and capitalism
- “ Mrs. Murphy was right not only about her
being an out-and-out capitalist, but also in
regarding herself as one that the country
could not get along with out.”
12. A Motor Picnic Abroad
• Stories about a trip through France
• “Among the many charms of motoring in
France one must assuredly include the casual
picnics the almost foreseen lunches and after
noon teas in the shadow of a beech wood
carpeted with violets….”
13. The young lawyer talks politics
• United States Supreme courts decision and
Edward S. Martin’s opinion…
• “Yesterday the United States Supreme court
decided something thus by four to three.
Justices 1, 3, 5, protested vigorously…
