Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crutch (he was injured recently in a motor accident). Few people in the audience could see beneath his bowed grey head, his haggard face. Feelings in the audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what...
Rain and lack of vitalizing issues kept Oregon's primary vote last week to the lowest on record. Results: Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary renominated, to oppose onetime Democratic Congressman Elton Watkins; George Joseph. Republican State Senator, apparently nominated for Governor, to oppose (apparently) Democrat Edward F. Bailey...
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES: STATESMAN OF REUNION-H. J. Eckenrode-Dodd, Mead ($5)-Rutherford Birchard Hayes, igth U. S. President, perhaps had no legal right to be President at all. Biographer Eckenrode thinks Hayes was not legally elected in 1876, that Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden was the majority's choice. The electoral vote was 185 to 184. But Hayes' election, whether or not strictly legal, gave the U. S. four years of good government. Tilden was "one of the ablest public men in the country, if not the ablest," but Hayes was "one of the best Presidents...
Followed years of labor agitation and national politics, with Debs in and out of new revolutionary groups. As a Democrat he had been elected city clerk of Terre Haute at 25, and to the Indiana Legislature at 29. In 1896 as a Populist he supported William Jennings Bryan, turned definitely away from Democracy to Socialism. As the Socialist candidate for President he got 95,000 votes in 1900, 402,000 votes in 1904, 420,000 in 1908 (the "Red Special" year), 897,000 votes in 1912. As Convict No. 9653 in Atlanta, he received 919.000 presidential votes...
...final criticism is inexcusable. Such remarks on returned ballots as, "Who is the people's candidate?" "Where is the Democrat?" etc. need not have been made if such persons had taken advantage of the opportunity to nominate by petition. Such opportunity was open for almost a week and not one petition was received. The nominating committee must necessarily choose from among the class leaders, and its efforts must be towards representing such things as athletics, managerial staffs, publications, and other activities, from among such leaders. If someone of ability whose name is not quite so well known...