Campaigning at Case: Presidential Elections,
1892-2008
1912: Three Parties
Republican, Democratic, and Progressive parties each had a
student club at WRU. All brought speakers to campus, the Taft
Club promising, “some of the best known Republican spellbinders
out to show us who’s who.”
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The WRU student newspaper reported on
campus political activities.
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Ohio Popular Vote |
National Popular Vote |
Electoral Vote |
Woodrow Wilson (D) 424,834 (41%)
William H. Taft (R) 278,168 (26.8%)
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) 229.807 (22.2%)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) 90,164 (8.7%)
Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 11,511 (1.1%)
Arthur E. Reimer (Socialist Labor) 2,630 (.3%) |
Woodrow Wilson (D) 6,293,152 (41.84%)
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) 4,119,207 (27.39%)
William H. Taft (R) 3,486,333 (23.18%)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) 900,369 (5.99%)
Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 207,972 (1.38%)
Arthur E. Reimer (Socialist Labor) 29,374 (.2%) |
Woodrow Wilson (D) 435
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) 88
William H. Taft (R) 8 |
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve
University Archives, September 2004.
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