Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as many an Englishman generations after the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty toasted the bonny king over the water, so staunch Democrats insisted that Samuel J. Tilden was rightfully President from 1877 to 1881. In the election of 1876, Tilden received 184 undisputed votes in the electoral college, Rutherford B. Hayes, 165. The 20 disputed votes, of which Democrat Tilden needed only one to win were all awarded to Hayes by a Republican-dominated commission...
...which Governor Smith might, without legerdemain, draw is Massachusetts. Calvin Coolidge once governed it; but it has Wets, Catholics, immigrants; it sent last fall Catholic-Democrat David Ignatius Walsh to the Senate. Give its 18 votes to Smith, Smith's total becomes 262. Looking for 4 more votes, Governor Smith must cast his eyes far into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes...
...Muncie, Ind. The reason, which the senate decided was good, sufficient and constitutional, was that one of the quarrelers, a circuit court judge named Clarence W. Dearth, appeared to have committed acts for which he deserved impeachment. That the other quarreler, Editor George R. Dale of the Muncie Post-Democrat (weekly) was a fugitive from Judge Dearth's justice, across the state line in Ohio, lent color to a case which, originating as a question of freedom of the press, had ramified, as the press had intended it should, into a question of curruption in high office. . For three...
...right wing "Social Democrat...
...What Democrat competed against Rutherford B. Hayes...