Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outstanding in the cartoon history of the 1928 campaign have been: For the Republicans, Cartoonist Thomas Edwards Powers of the Hearst newspapers; for the Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance...
...Hoover, whose philosophy proclaims him an individualist of individualists, suffering the campaign so utterly to eclipse his personality? At the close of the War he was a figure for legend. . . . Now when the supreme opportunity opens before him he is become the Great American Abstraction...
...really is odd, this one-legged campaign. There is but a single figure [Smith] in it. You may hate him or you may love him, but it is because of Smith that you vote at all. A few thousands will vote for Hoover. Millions will vote against Smith. Millions will vote for Smith, too, but nobody is going to vote against Hoover. . . . During the whole campaign he [Hoover] has said nothing to hurt feelings and he has done nothing...
...more I see of this campaign the more strongly I feel that your election is of supreme importance to the country. Your qualities as a man and what you stand for, regardless of party, make me feel that the problems which will come before our country during the next four years will be best solved under your leadership...
Nominee Hoover made some history. He was the first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...