Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jennie M. Callfas, Nebraska Democrat, three-time National Committeewoman. Reason: Prohibition...
Charles Wayland Bryan, Nebraska Democrat in 1924, the Democracy's candidate for Vice President. Reason: "economic" (see below...
Colonel Edward Mandell House, Texas Democrat, Altar Ego of the late Woodrow Wilson. Reason: "Governor Smith knows more about government than any other man in America...
Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which...
Ohio. With a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senator, several Democratic Representatives and several Wet cities, the home state of seven Republican Presidents and the birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah...