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Congressman Dawes was one of the small group of thirty - five House members who voted against passage of the Chinese ... body to the polls to vote against Dawes and for ( Silver Bill ) Warner , from whom he had wrested the seat in 1880.
Congressman Dawes was one of the small group of thirty - five House members who voted against passage of the Chinese ... body to the polls to vote against Dawes and for ( Silver Bill ) Warner , from whom he had wrested the seat in 1880.
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But , when the applause had subsided and the roll was called , the gold plank was adopted as written , by a vote of 818 % against 105 % . The silver men walked out . The rest was a foregone conclusion . Over the noisy longdistance ...
But , when the applause had subsided and the roll was called , the gold plank was adopted as written , by a vote of 818 % against 105 % . The silver men walked out . The rest was a foregone conclusion . Over the noisy longdistance ...
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The chairman of the New Jersey delegation announced that his state , which had always hitherto been dependably Democratic in Presidential elections , would withhold its vote on the convention's ballot . Ex - Governor Flower announced ...
The chairman of the New Jersey delegation announced that his state , which had always hitherto been dependably Democratic in Presidential elections , would withhold its vote on the convention's ballot . Ex - Governor Flower announced ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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