Question
During a St. Louis convention, muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd lamented the impending destruction of the “Omaha Platform” if it wholeheartedly endorsed this position. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this position that provided a nickname to Missouri Representative Richard P. Bland, who names the “Grand Bland Plan” to codify this position into law.
ANSWER: free silver [accept bimetallism; prompt on “Silver Dick”]
[10e] Lloyd published the 1894 book Wealth Against Commonwealth as an exposé against this company. Ida Tarbell wrote a “History of” this company run by John D. Rockefeller.
ANSWER: Standard Oil [accept The History of the Standard Oil Company; prompt on Standard]
[10h] Near the end of his life, Lloyd studied democracy in this country for the posthumously-released book A Sovereign People. James W. Marshall built a sawmill on territory called a “New” version of this country.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or Helvetica; or Swiss Confederation, der Schweiz, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Confédération suisse, Confederazione Svizzera, Confederaziun svizra, or Confoederatio Helvetica; accept New Helvetia or Nueva Helvetia or New Switzerland] (Marshall was employed by Swiss immigrant John Sutter to build the mill, where he discovered gold in 1848.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |