Showing posts with label 1900 Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1900 Election. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Thursday, July 5, 1900. Democratic nominees and a Canadian VC.

The Democratic Party nominated William Jennings Bryan for President, and former U.S. Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice President.

Originally timed for July 4, a debate over the silver to gold ration for coinage delayed it.


British born Canadian soldier Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson

On the 5th July, 1900, at Wolve Spruit, about 15 miles north of Standerton, a party of Lord Strathcona's Corps, only 38 in number, came into contact, and was engaged at close quarters, with a force of 80 of the enemy. When the order to retire had been given, Sergeant Richardson rode back under a very heavy cross-fire and picked up a trooper whose horse had been shot and who was wounded in two places and rode with him out of fire. At the time when this act of gallantry was performed, Sergeant Richardson was within 300 yards of the enemy, and was himself riding a wounded horse.

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passed the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Last edition:

Wednesday, July 4, 1900. Streetcar disaster.

Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Thursday, June 21, 1900. McKinley and Roosevelt nominated, China declares war.

William McKinley and New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt were unanimously nominated for president and vice-president on the Republican ticket.

China declared war on the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan.

Major General Arthur MacArthur, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines and Civil War hero, offered amnesty for 90 days to Filipino guerillas.

Last edition:

Wednesday, June 20, 1900. Siege of Peking.