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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: corbe on April 11, 2024, 03:18:21 pm
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Chicago Dems Plotted the World’s Greatest Jailbreak to Steal a Presidential Election
During the Civil War, Democrats came up with a unique plan to find more voters.
April 11, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
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“They will vote early and often, and they will fight,” Charles Walsh, a top figure in the Democratic political machine who had unsuccessfully run for Sheriff of Cook County, promised.
The year was 1864 and Walsh, the “doorkeeper’ of the Illinois House, who lost an election to a Republican by less than 800 votes, had a plan to win a presidential election the Chicago Way.
It was simple.
Abraham Lincoln was so associated with Illinois that “Land of Lincoln” would become its name, but Chicago was a whole other matter. Could Chicago Democrats hope to win Illinois? The Democrats had bet big on Chicago by bringing the Democratic National Convention to town.
The Democratic convention adopted a platform claiming that “after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war”, it was time to negotiate a settlement. But the convention was also to be the opening round of what became known as the “Chicago Conspiracy” in which Democrats plotted treason, a coup and a unique way to win an election.
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They will do the same thing 160 years later. I'll forever believe Nixon won Illinois in 1960.
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The incarcerated and the dead
The Democratic Party has quite the constituency