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the old bell summoned once more — this time over trenches in France — to remind a mobilized America that liberty

and slow imperial drift

that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce

distressed black frame

when the Republic had begun the slow

William H. Taft, Republican Nominee Barber_Word_Print the old bell summoned onceWilliam H. Taft, Republican Nominee a campaign portrait of the Ohio jurist turned standard bearer, issued as the GOP placed its considerable weight behind Roosevelt's hand picked successor. The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President, and eventually was. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional