A Long and Flowing Whig: My New Timeline

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Right. So, that's the end???:confused:





Yeah Right! Pull a funny one.

My theory: Roosevelt, pissed off that the American War Machine has not been used to its full potential, will do something so stupid to start the war back up again.
Of course, there is every chance that he will cover his tracks so well, that it will look like the Germans started the war again.

*sigh*
 
Why are the Philippines being mentioned here I mean in the previous treaty it gave all of them to Japan so surely then Japan wouldn't except this new treaty. Also why was there no details in the peace treaties of anything affecting the Italian states or Austria Hungary
The previous treaty did not actually include the Philippines. It was part of Germany's offer for peace, but America and Britain would accept it, so it was left out of the Treaty of Gent.

Right. So, that's the end???:confused:





Yeah Right! Pull a funny one.

My theory: Roosevelt, pissed off that the American War Machine has not been used to its full potential, will do something so stupid to start the war back up again.
Of course, there is every chance that he will cover his tracks so well, that it will look like the Germans started the war again.

*sigh*
That's not my intention at all. Yes Teddy is upset he didn't get to go total war on Europe, but he's not gonna start up a war for fake reasons just to do it.

When is the second version going to start? I'd like to see it.
I'm still going to do the aftermath of the war before I start the remake.
 
Election of 1912: The Big Decision
The election of 1912 was the first where both parties held state by state primaries to determine who the candidate of their party would be.

Whig Presidential Primaries
The Whigs had several candidates line up for the Primary. There was John Bush, son of former President James Bush. He would represent New York. Unlike his father, John Bush didn’t go into politics. He would go into business and become manufacturer of electric goods such as washing machines, refrigerators, and radios. He campaigned on being the most knowledgeable about business, and therefore being able to save the economy after the war boom fell. Then there was Rick Paul, governor of Texas. He had originally been in favor of the war, but after his son died in the Pacific, he turned against the war and actively campaigned against it. The third major candidate was former president Robert Todd Lincoln. Lincoln had foreign policy experience, which he emphasized that America needed more then ever after the war. He, like the others campaigned against the war. The primaries were fierce, but in the end former President Lincoln won the party nomination. He was tempted to pick John Bush to be his VP, but he didn’t want to look like he was recreating his father’s ticket. So he would choose his other opponent, Rick Paul, to be his running mate.

The Populist Primaries
At first Roosevelt didn’t expect to even need the primaries, but as the war dragged on and became more and more unpopular, he was challenged for the party nomination. His vice president, William Jennings Bryan challenged him for the nomination. Bryan had ran for president several times before, and he said that if he didn’t win this time, he would retire from politics for good. Bryan didn’t like how Roosevelt was taking the party in a thNationalist direction, so he wanted save the party by bringing it back to the roots of president’s father. Needless to say Theodore would stand for a challenge. In the primaries he would defeat Bryan again and again. However, just to spite Roosevelt, Bryan would run as an independent with a substantial following. Bryan would pick Robert M. La Follette as his running mate. Roosevelt would then pick the governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, as his running mate.

Results
Roosevelt/Wilson: 226
Lincoln/Paul: 192
Bryan/Follette: 122

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House of Representatives
Populists: 236
Whig: 200

Senate
Populists: 55
Whig: 49

After the Electoral votes were counted, none of the three candidates had the 270 electoral votes to claim victory. The race would be thrown to congress. After several votes, a backroom deal was made between Bryan’s faction and Roosevelt’s factions. Bryan’s faction would give Roosevelt the Presidency, if Roosevelt’s faction would give Follette the vice presidency. The deal was struck on February 3rd. On March 4th, 1913, Theodore Roosevelt would be inaugurated for his second term, with Robert La Follette being inaugurated as Vice President.
 
I admit as soon as i read wilson's name, i kinda cringed. But when i read of the backroom deal, i actually felt pity for him. The loss of the Vice-presidency would definitely have to piss wilson off greatly.

Still, the Whigs seem to be making a slow comeback. Was also shocked about Lincoln though.
 
I admit as soon as i read wilson's name, i kinda cringed. But when i read of the backroom deal, i actually felt pity for him. The loss of the Vice-presidency would definitely have to piss wilson off greatly.

Still, the Whigs seem to be making a slow comeback. Was also shocked about Lincoln though.

You feel sorry for Woodrow Wilson? That's a first for this site. :rolleyes:

Anyways, yay, VP La Follette. And a continued Teddy presidency!
 
I never said they would retain it forever.

True. Plus, I doubt that the western powers would really care about the Tartar nation (Tartarstan?) since it's a small nation entirely enveloped in Russia, which has got to be hurting from the war and looking for some small nation to take out its frustrations on...
 

katchen

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Twilight of the Confederate States of America
Heart of Dixie
Alabama was in the heat of war. General George Meade leading the Trans-Mississippi army, General John C. Fremont leading the Army of the Potomac, and General John Brown leading his “Army of Liberation”. The clock was ticking on the Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln was anxious for a knock-out blow to end the war, and he felt that Montgomery was the key. Confederate President Jefferson Davis, under the exponentially growing stresses of war, has taken to Heroin, Opium, and Marijuana to ease his stress, but these drugs have altered his mind and he is now mentally unstable, yet with a gun to the head of everyone in his government.

Fremont and Meade pushed south toward Montgomery. Davis had enough sense to flee the government out Montgomery, and out of Alabama. He fled the government to Mobile, and from there he would flee to Havana, Cuba, where he would make his last stand. Davis gave one last order to Longstreet, saying “Do what it takes to win. Do what is best for the Confederacy. Do what is right for the South”. With that he left Longstreet in command of the Montgomery line that split the state into north and south. Longstreet knew exactly what he was going to do. He was going to what was best for the south. He would hold the line long enough for Davis and his government to reach Mobile and flee to Cuba. On April 12th, 1863, a white flag arose from the Confederate side of the Montgomery line.

General Longstreet and the governor of Alabama met with Generals Fremont and Meade. It didn’t take much negotiation. Longstreet and the governor agreed to surrender on condition that all confiscated property in Alabama would be returned to their owners, including the slaves that John Brown had confiscated. Fremont and Grant agreed to this. Alabama was forced to do make the same constitutional changes all of the other states had. Longstreet was offered a command in the Union army, but unlike Lee he was completely tired of war, and wanted nothing more to do with it. He would accept the punishment of the union, and hope to live the rest of his life in solitude. This dream would be interrupted in the 1870s when the call for generals rang out, he would return to service, in the union.

Unexpected Surrenders
Not long after Lee and Grant entered into Georgia, they received word from the state government. A vote had just been held in the state legislature to offer up surrender, and it had passed. They were waiting for reply from a Union general. Both Lee and Grant hurried to Atlanta to meet with the governor to formalize their surrender. The surrender of Georgia was formalized on April 30th. Georgia was allowed to keep it’s slaves as long as a new government was formed and a anti-secession clause was added to their state constitution.

Georgia wouldn’t be the only surrender in April. Shortly after Georgia surrendered Florida also surrendered. It didn’t surrender to a general, but instead sent it straight to Philadelphia, where the senate approved. They met the same conditions Georgia had, and rejoined the union.

Cuba is the last bastion of the Confederacy, and possibly their best hope for survival. Can the Confederacy survive and amphibious invasion? Will President Lincoln risk war with Spain just as the greatest conflict in the nations short history is ending?
Heroin? Heroin (diacetyl morphine) hadn't been synthesized from Opium by German chemists until the early 1900s OTL. Morphia maybe.Unless of course the name heroin gets applied to something totally different TTL.
 
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