# 1912 US Presidential Election

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1912-us-presidential-election/630901>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 8, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1912-us-presidential-election/630901 "2012-08-08T21:36:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1912-us-presidential-election/630901/41 "2012-08-13T07:40:54Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> “The best is the enemy of the good.”
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> – Voltaire

When the ‘good’ is the party of Jim Crow, I’ll gladly settle for nothing but the best.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1912-us-presidential-election/630901/42 "2012-08-14T06:33:31Z")

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> [@Olentzero](#):
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> When the ‘good’ is the party of Jim Crow, I’ll gladly settle for nothing but the best.

I’ll remind you that the Republican platform condemned “Jim Crow” in their platform as recently as four years ago, stating:

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> The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution which were designed for the protection and advancement of the negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the Supreme law of the land.

So if that’s a topic that concerns you, vote Taft in 1912!

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