{"id":11524,"date":"2013-03-29T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:12:07","slug":"in-the-political-graveyard-noted-famous-political-figures-lost-to-forgotten-political-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/03\/29\/in-the-political-graveyard-noted-famous-political-figures-lost-to-forgotten-political-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"in the political graveyard &#8212; noted famous political figures lost to forgotten political figures."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=164609\">what the Hell was this guy thinking<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Name Ambassador James Watson Gerard\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Votes 133,815 (62.08%)<br \/>\nSt. Sen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a063,879 (29.64%)<br \/>\nJames S.\u00c2\u00a0McDonough\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a017,862 (8.29%<\/p>\n<p>So. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19547\">About the man Roosevelt lost to in a 1914 Senate bid<\/a> &#8212; he never really had any intention on winning (Just trying to up his name recognition):<\/p>\n<p><em>Remarkably for a former Ambassador to the country, Gerard regarded Germany with little less than loathing. His bile was reserved not only for native Germans, but was also taken to include German-American U.S. citizens.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gerard gained particular notoriety for a speech given on 25 November 1917 to the Ladies Aid Society of St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital in New York. During the course of his speech he feared for the possibility of up to half a million German-Americans rising up and wreaking havoc within the U.S. once General Pershing&#8217;s American Expeditionary Force (AEF) took part in its first major offensive against the German enemy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>His solution was startlingly simple: to hang German-Americans from lamp posts. Unsurprisingly Gerard was unsuccessful in his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1920.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; we were right there at war with Germany. \u00c2\u00a0And another Presidential candidate running around wanting to imprison people based on little more than supposition,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=18713\"> Mitchell Palmer<\/a> &#8212; well, he might&#8217;ve gotten in had the political climate in 1920 been as it was in 1919 &#8212; as it were he bobbed u<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcampaigns.com\/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=18713\">p and down and finished off third<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, what the Hell was this guy thinking? Name Ambassador James Watson Gerard\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Votes 133,815 (62.08%) St. Sen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a063,879 (29.64%) James S.\u00c2\u00a0McDonough\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a017,862 (8.29% So. \u00c2\u00a0About the man Roosevelt lost to in a 1914 Senate bid &#8212; he never really had any intention on winning (Just trying to up his name recognition): Remarkably for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}