Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has been divided in this campaign, but not noncommittal. Harvard has always been inclined to condescend toward national politics, and to view all candidates, as we should say in France, from high to below. The Nomad remembers watching the Harvard classes as they filed past in the great torchlight parade in favor of Blaine in 1884. There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side...
...outstanding issue of the campaign, the one vital problem which our next President will have to face, seems to me to be the question of the relations between the American people and the people of other lands. The people, I say; not the governments. In this great conflict, it is the people, not the rulers, who occupy the first place in our thoughts, and at the end, the people, even the women (God be praised!), will have to be considered. What ought our position to be? The situation is absolutely new in history. The problems that we shall face...
...could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once has he risen...
...case against the President, especially in regard to the Lusitania outrage and the Mexican turmoil, which have already been stated in a letter to the New York Times, November 5; all that I can point out hre is that in the very tone and method of his campaign, Mr. Hughes has utterly failed to exhibit those qualities of mind and heart which seem to me most needed in the present day spokeman of the American people...
...complains bitterly of the sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes...