Campaigning at Case: Presidential Elections,
1892-2008
1924: “Fighting Bob” LaFollette and “Silent Cal”
Coolidge
"Our opponents will receive a crushing defeat. As the
cause of the people has always triumphed in the past, so will
it be victorious in the present crisis of our country's history."
The prediction of G.M. DeMarinis, executive secretary of WRU’s
LaFollette supporters, proved correct. Adelbert College students
backed Progressive Party candidate Robert LaFollette with 196
votes to Republican Calvin Coolidge’s 129 and Democrat
John W. Davis’ 35. A poll of 30 faculty had Coolidge the
victor with 15 votes to Davis’ 8 and LaFollette’s
7.
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The ballot used in the straw poll at WRU.
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This image from the Reserve Weekly
reveals the winner of the WRU straw vote, Robert LaFollette.
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Senator Theodore E. Burton, Judge Pierre
White, and State Senator Maud C. Waite visited the WRU
campus through the efforts of the Reserve Republican Club.
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Ohio Popular Vote |
National Popular Vote |
Electoral Vote |
Calvin Coolidge (R) 1,176,130 (58.3%)
John W. Davis (D) 477,888 (23.7%)
Robert LaFollette (Progressive) 358,008 (17.8%)
Frank T. Johns (Socialist Labor) 3,025 (.2%)
William J. Wallace (Commonwealth Land) 1,246 (.1%) |
Calvin Coolidge (R) 15,717,553 (54.06%)
John W. Davis (D) 8,386,169 (28.84%)
Robert LaFollette (Progressive) 4,814,050 (16.56%)
Herman P. Faris (Prohibition) 54,833 (.19%)
Frank T. Johns (Socialist Labor) 28,368 (.1%) |
Calvin Coolidge (R) 382
John W. Davis (D) 136
Robert LaFollette (Progressive) 13 |
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve
University Archives, September 2004.
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