Word: bossism
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...Hershey Arena was only two-thirds filled. Barry's speech, as Goldwater speeches go, was singularly lacking in fire. He took on the Kennedy Administration, tied it to big-city bossism and machine politics. The audience responded with listless applause. Seated on the platform, Governor Scranton appeared to be bored. All in all, this was the unhappiest appearance that Goldwater has made in a long while...
...Democratic National committee man from New York said in a speech at the Law School that his defeat by a "reform" candidate as Greenwich party leader had very little to do with charges of bossism. "There were intangible factors" which are hard to understand, De Sapio claimed, that led to his defeat...
From then on the article tells how the Taft Republicans in Louisiana resorted to elaborate chicanery and blatant bossism to prevent a supposedly pro-Eisenhower rank and file from exercising their democratic rights. It also tells how, once the villainous Old Guard was overthrown in the national convention. Louisiana Republicanism prospered under its new, Modern Republican leader, John Minor Wisdom. Stone writes well, and his story may be true, but his tendencies towards overstatement undermine his credibility somewhat...
...defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for attorney-general noted that "if we can't centralize our finances, we can't solve our problems. I admit bossism is unpopular, but I'm afraid it may be necessary...
That should have been that. But it wasn't. Inevitably, Buckley's move gave Morgenthau's three active opponents a chance to raise a cry of "bossism." At the same time, it enraged some delegates who had supposed that Wagner really meant it when he vowed to fight to the death against Buckley's brand of political feudalism...