Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental vice of American politics at this time, I would unhesitatingly declare that it consists in playing the game on too low a standard-far below the level of both the intelligence and patriotism of the voter. . . . Let us give to the country a thorough and fearless program. ... A Democrat in the days of Jackson was a crusader. A Republican in the days of Lincoln was an apostle...
...death on March 24 of Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado deprives the Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson...
RHODE ISLAND: The Providence County Jury refused to bring an indictment against newspaper men charged with libel by former Governor Robert L. Beeckman. One headline quoted was: "Beekman and his tool caught in open bribery with payment of $1,500 to Democrat...
...Chairmen of the Appropriations Committees of the two Houses-Senator Warren and Representative Madden (Republicans)-made public tabulated statements of the 1923 and 1924 budgets, showing a decrease of $233,802,504 for next year. At once Representative Burns (ranking Democrat of the House Appropriations Committee) replied that the statements did not tell the whole tale-that reappropriations and deficiency appropriations would bring the expenditure for 1924 well above that...
Ralston. A Democrat whose boom has not yet begun is the new "high-grass " Senator from Indiana. As The New York Evening Post sapiently remarks: "A Democrat who can recapture Indiana two years after the greatest Republican landslide in the annals of American politics is under no necessity of putting up a Presidential lightning...