Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the Southern Prohibitionists and the reactionary practices of Attorney General Palmer and Postmaster General Burleson, the individual Democrat, who is a Democrat on principle, has not lost these characteristics. The instincts of the great mass of Democracy still tend to keep it a party of the common people, not in the sense of the demagogue, but in the sense of Thomas Jefferson. They are still struggling whenever the opportunity offers and a free play of Democratic sentiment is permitted by party organization against those centralizing tendencies that are turning the Government of the United States into an autocracy...