A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Texas Electors Stand Pat.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 20, 1912:
Col. Lyon Says They Will Vote for Roosevelt — No Third Party.
    HOUSTON, Texas, July 10.— Col. Cecil A. Lyon said to-day:
    "If there is to be a third party organized in Texas, the men who placed themselves beyond the pale of the Republican organization will have to form it. The supporters of President Taft are the men I refer to.
    "I am at the head of the Republican organization in Texas and I intend to stay there. Col. Roosevelt is the Republican nominee for President, and our Texas Electors are already named and instructed for him."

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, July 20, 2012

Texas Electors Stand Pat.

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