WI: Eric Muenter's bombing kills VP Marshall and/or Wilson

I've been working on some alternate timelines and one event that I think could make an interesting POD was the fact that Wilson's Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, was the target of a would-be assassination attempt. From what I've read, Eric Muenter tried to place dynamite in the Senate chamber in July of 1915 and failing that placed the dynamite in the Senate reception room outside Marshall's office door, with the bomb exploding prematurely at night injuring no one. What if perhaps the bomb hadn't detonated prematurely and that the explosive went off in the day killing Marshall and/or Wilson as well (for the circumstances of this hypothetical, perhaps Wilson walked with him to his office to discuss some matter before it detonated).

What direction do you think the country would take after this? What might happen if both were killed, or if only one of the two happened to perish?
 
If only Marshall dies there's little immediate change. The Democrats just have to choose a new VP in 1916. OTOH it could matter in 1919/20, if the alt-VP makes a determined effort to take over the Presidency during Wilson's illness.

If they both die, Robert Lansing will be President. He was much more openly pro-Entente than Wilson, so might find it harder to play the "kept us out of war" card. I don't really know anything about Lansing's views on domestic policy (the most important factor in Wilson's victory) so I can't say for certain whether he could have defeated Hughes. As OTL, it will probably be close.

If it's only Wilson who dies, then a lot could change. Iirc, Marshall expressed doubts about whether Americans should be travelling on belligerent ships, but backpedalled when it was suggested that he was out of line with the Administration. As POTUS he might have been more emphatic on that point. Less certainly, in dealing with Germany he might have explicitly limited his objections to the sinking of unarmed liners - implying that armed ones were fair game. Wilson never took this position out loud, but seems to have accepted it in practice. Had President Marshall made it explicit, and Germany adopted USW against armed vessels only, war might have been avoided in 1917, though this is far from certain.

There is of course also the question of whether taking such a line would have led to Marshall's defeat in 1916, but given that the Northeast - the most pro-Entente section of the country - was a Hughes sweep even OTL, my guess is that it wouldn't.
 
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If they both die, Robert Lansing will be President.

Just realised I might be wrong on this point. Does anyone know when Lansing was confirmed by the Senate?

Iirc, under the 1886 Act, Cabinet officers did not join the line of succession until they were confirmed. So if, when the double vacancy arose, Lansing were only an unconfirmed recess appointee, then the Presidency would not pass to him but to the Treasury Secretary, William Gibbs McAdoo.
 
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