Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lansing Ray, president of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...JERSEY: Governor Silzer is a lone Democrat faced by a Legislature of Republicans. He is called the "veto-governor" because of the large number of bills which he vetoed during the last session of the Legislature. Now a collection of his vetoes has been published. They are marked by plain speaking and a clear legal mind, and Democrats claim that, although 27 bills became law despite his objection, this collection of vetoes shows that he won a " moral victory...
...return of ex-Senator George Chamberlain, Oregon Democrat, to fighting politics is the ardent hope of fighting Democrats. He plans to resign from the United States Shipping Board in June, and will probably seek election to the Senate next year...
When Mr. Chamberlain was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs he was a staunch advocate of preparedness and came out strongly against his fellow-Democrat Newton D. Baker. He is probably the most conspicuously able statesman whom Oregon has yet given to the nation, and there are those who feel that he has merit as a Democratic presidential possibility...
...factor has to be considered. Former President Wilson's letter to Governor Sweet is generally understood to indicate his return to active political life and his influence may be decisive. No one believes that he would approve the nomination of Ford, or even Bryan. His "hope" that a Progressive Democrat would be chosen to fill the vacant seat from Colorado may be a hit at the conservative Underwood. Possibly he means to support his son-in-law, whom he allowed to perish miserably at San Francisco when a turn of his thumb might have made him President McAdoo, after recommending...