Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expire next March. Whoever is elected to fill out his term will have only about three months' active service in Congress. Ordinarily there would not be a great fight for such a seat. Now it is different. The composition of the Senate is 50 Republicans, 43 Democrats, two Farmer-Laborites, one vacancy. Assuming, however, that the election of President and Vice President should be thrown into Congress, it is to be expected that the two Farmer-Laborites with at least three Republicans, LaFollette, Ladd and Frazier, would vote for Gov. Bryan rather than for Gen. Dawes. This would make...
...Manhattan, Mr. Kent points out two Democratic papers-the Times and the World. He declares that in their headlines and news they are "scrupulously fair" and "rigidly nonpartisan" and "on the other hand, certain hidebound Republican organs give to many of their dispatches a heavy Coolidge flavor and lose no chance to place the Davis candidacy in a bad light." This is hyperbole. These "hidebound Republican organs" refer chiefly to Frank Munsey's Sun, Ogden Reid's Pier Herald-Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little...
...that election, Dr. L. A. Nixon, a colored citizen of El Paso, and a regular Democrat of many years' standing, who had voted in previous Democratic primaries, presented himself at the polls and was denied the privilege of casting his ballot...
...political issue, Defense Day will probably turn out to be a "dud," forgotten as soon as the day is past. Only a few other Governors, such as Governor Sweet of Colorado, a progressive Democrat, and Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, a LaFollette supporter, fell in behind Governor Bryan...
LaFollette Progressives. "There remains the candidacy of Robert M. La Follette and Burton K. Wheeler?the first an independent Republican, the second an independent Democrat, running as such...