Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later came his second chance. He was nominated for Senator, as a Democrat of course. Albert J. Beveridge had just defeated Senator Harry S. New for the Republican nomination. The disgruntlement of the New men helped to weaken Beveridge in the campaign and Ralston...
...editorial writer on a Cleveland paper for two years. He then served two terms as Secretary of State of Ohio, and in 1872 at 37 he was elected to Congress, served one term but was denied reelection. Until this time he had been a Republican, but he turned Democrat...
...bought and edited the Toledo Journal for nine years. He was probate Judge of Lucas County for six years. He edited the Canton News-Democrat for ten years...
...again elected to Congress, as a Democrat from Toledo. For 14 years continuously he sat in the House of Representatives. But in the Harding landslide of 1920 he was defeated. In 1921 at the ripe age of 86 he left the halls of Congress. But he was not done. Eighteen months later, campaigning with pristine vigor of mind, he won his way back, reelected. He sat for two years more, and a year ago decided that he had had enough. Last February he made his farewell address to the House...
...member of the Court. Justice Brandeis has been called a radical. He is an admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities of the Court. Although a Democrat, after elevation to the Court he declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily...