Chapter 23: Heresy
Jack followed Giannini closer and listened, only to learn that the topic that the men were arguing about was about former President Roosevelt's announcement of his candidacy for president.
One side of the argument is that President Washington voluntarily gave up running for a third term of president for the sake of democracy after being elected president for two terms, and now more than 100 years have passed, and no president has ever sought to run for a third term.
But now, Roosevelt, who has been president for two terms, is still delusional about running for the presidency next year, believing that Roosevelt has violated the rules.
As for the opponents, they have been arguing that the US Constitution does not explicitly stipulate that a person can only be elected president of the United States for two terms.
"Guys, let me introduce you, this is Mr. Dawson of Cedric Corporation, and now Cedric II is second only to Ford's Model T in sales!"
After Giannini brought Jack over, he temporarily interrupted the argument by introducing Jack to them.
After knowing Jack's identity from Giannini, for a while, several people present were a little surprised.
Although most of them know about the recent rise of a car manufacturing company in San Francisco, the name of which is Cedric & Co.
And they also know that Cedric's company is owned by a man named Jack Dawson.
But they really didn't know that Jack was so young!
After introducing Jack to the people present, Giannini took Jack to one of the old men who looked to be in his sixties and had many age spots on his face, and introduced Jack: "Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Andrew Schneider, the chairman of Schneider Company, Schneider Company is our largest cement company in California, and Schneider Company is the largest cement supplier for the San Francisco Redevelopment Project. ”
"Hello, Mr. Schneider." After listening to Giannini's introduction to the old man in front of him, Jack took the initiative to step forward. Shake hands with Andrew Schneider, who seems to be a little unresponsive.
"California has become the fastest growing state in the federal economy, and it is a time for large-scale infrastructure construction, and I believe it will not be long before Schneider becomes the largest cement company in the western part of the Federation!"
When Andrew Schneider heard this, he smiled and said confidently: "I also hope that day will come soon." ”
After introducing Andrew Schneider to Jack, Giannini took Jack to another middle-aged man in his thirties and continued: "This is Andrew Mueller, chairman of Calalumina, which is now the only federal aluminum production company west of the Mississippi River. ”
After hearing the identity of the middle-aged man in front of him, Jack suddenly felt a burst of surprise.
According to his vision, Cedric could not only produce affordable cars, but sooner or later began to design high-end cars, and then the production of high-end cars would consume a lot of aluminum.
Not to mention, he also has ideas for home appliances and airplanes, which are big consumers of aluminum!
"Mr. Muller, if there is a chance in the future, we will cooperate more!"
"Okay!"
"It's ......"
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Soon, under Giannini's enthusiastic introduction, Jack got to know the people present.
In addition to Andrew Schneider and Andrew Müller, there were three other people, namely Carl Neumann, chairman of Neumann Steel, Ruben Lorenz, chairman of the Lorenz brothers, and Michael Henry de Young, co-founder of the Daily Chronicle.
As for the topic of controversy that Jack heard when he was brought by Giannini, it was mainly caused by Carl Neumann and Ruben Lorenz.
Among them, it was Carl Neumann who believed that Roosevelt's candidacy for federal president violated the federal convention since the president of Washington, and it was Ruben Rawrenz who supported Roosevelt's candidacy for federal president and used Roosevelt's candidacy for federal president to violate the federal constitution.
As for the position of these two people, Jack thought about it for a while, and almost figured it out.
Because when Giannini introduced the identities of these two people to him just now, he specifically reminded him that Carl Neumann is a supporter of the Republican Party, while Ruben Lorenz is a supporter of the Progressive Party.
As a time-traveler from the modern era, Jack once thought that the United States had only two parties since its founding, until he chatted with a friend once, he knew that there was a third party in the United States several times.
Among them, there is a party called the Progressive Party, which is related to Roosevelt.
Just some time ago, when the federal Republican Party was nominating for the Republican presidential nomination, Roosevelt never imagined that he would lose to his former protégé, that is, the current US President Taft.
There is a saying that heretics are more hateful than infidels.
Therefore, in order to run for federal president, Roosevelt led his supporters to form the Progressive Party to participate in the next federal president, which became a frequent conflict between the Republican Party and the Progressive Party.
This is also a matter of contention between Carl Neumann and Ruben Lorenz.
Just when Jack was thinking about the reason for the dispute between Carl Neumann and Ruben Lorenz, one of the parties involved, Carl Neumann, suddenly asked Jack: "Mr. Dawson, do you think Roosevelt will be able to fulfill his ambition and be re-elected president of the Federation?" ”
"This ......" Jack felt like crying after glancing at Carl Neumann, and seriously, he didn't want to get involved in the struggle between the Republicans and the Progressive Party.
But what he didn't expect was that Ruben Lorenz, the other party to the incident, also asked him: "Mr. Dawson, what do you think?" ”
Although Jack knew about this year's federal presidential election, because the Republican Party was divided into two, Roosevelt and Taft were not elected, but instead Wilson of the Democratic Party benefited and was elected as the 28th president of the Federation.
Naturally, it was impossible for him to say anything about it.
However, he also didn't want to offend people rashly.
After thinking about it, Jack was about to skip the topic with a haha, but just as he opened his mouth to speak, he suddenly saw John Gerwitt hurrying towards him out of the corner of his eye.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have something to take care of."
After saying hello to Giannini and the others with an apologetic face, Jack immediately greeted him.
"What's wrong?" Seeing John Gerwitt's flustered expression, Jack suddenly sighed in his heart, if something big hadn't happened, John Gerwitt couldn't have come here in such a hurry to find himself.
"Huhuhu......" John Gerwitt took a few deep breaths and said to Jack: "Around 17 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a clash in the factory, which had already caused one serious injury and six minor injuries. ”
"Moreover, all the workers of the factory have already gone on strike!"
"What?" Jack felt nothing but a whirlwind of the world.
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