Word: crats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election on Nov. 5. This would mean a cat-&-dog fight among New Jersey Republicans, who are split. The split might be wide enough to let a Demo crat through. If Senator Edge resigned after Oct. 5, Governor Larson, not the People, would choose his successor, thus preserving a Republican in the U. S. Senate, harmony in New Jersey...
...favorable] view of Mr. Hoover in the South and wreck the very substantial foundation for a strong Republican party which has been begun in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. . . ." Adroit, he added: "Unless a very high-class Republican can be found for appointment to any local office, a Demo-crat should be named...
Governors, Senators. Complicating the presidential vote in many a State, are gubernatorial and Congressional elections. Republican Indiana, for example, seemed last week in a fair way to acquire a Demo cratic Governor. So eaten with corruption is the local G. O. P. reputation that Demo crat Frank C. Dailey, running on a "house-cleaning'' platform, seemed well ahead of Republican Harry G. Leslie...
...some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised by others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics, immediately began to reflect upon Mr. Reed's latest remark. In 1922 ex-President Wilson, irate because the Demo-crat Reed had helped smother the Versailles Peace Treaty in the Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed...
...ballot, and failed to poll 5% of the Democratic vote cast in Wisconsin at the last election. According to Wisconsin law a candidate must poll in the primaries at least 5% of his party's vote in the previous election. Bruce failed to do so. No other Demo-crat did. Consequently there will be no regular Democratic candidate in the election, although Bruce will run as an independent Democrat...