Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposed to him were Finis J. Garrett, Democrat, backed solidly by his followers, and Henry Allen Cooper, Republican, backed by the Republican insurgents. Martin B. Madden, Republican, was, contrary to his wish, voted for by a small group of insurgents. The voting on all the roll calls until the ninth was remarkably uniform...
...British Labor Party Mr. Morrison declares that conditions in the United States have never necessitated the formation of a third party. The thought of the many years spent in political wilderness is apparently too horrible for the coquette still overwhelmed by the passing but pleasant affections of Republican and Democrat. Moreover conditions have never necessitated it. There are no millions of unemployed to make Labor fierce and desperate; the country, for the moment at least, is too prosperous to make any radical Labor Party appeal practically feasible. And so Labor goes on coquetting and Congress has its 376 lawyers...
...Coolidge apparently holds most of the trumps in the bidding for the nomination. But even if he outbids his rival Senator Johnson, there is always the possibility that the Democrats will call a higher suit. Mr. Coolidge represents the solid conservatism of the country; Senator Johnson has apparently espoused a flabby liberalism; in the background may lurk the man--Democrat more likely than Republican--who will ride the rising tide of radicalism and reform into the presidency...
...from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...
...great men spoke on the same occasion. Their sentiments were as different as their manners of expression. One has held what the other holds-an exalted post. One is an " out," the other an " in"; one a Democrat, the other a Republican; one a professor, the other a lawyer; one an ex-President, the other a President; one Woodrow Wilson, the other Calvin Coolidge. Perhaps it was natural that they should differ...