Word: federalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence, fierce antiFederalist, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts four times, was elected on his fifth try, subsequently reelected. He approved a bill which carved a state senatorial district in Essex County into an absurd shape, but gave the Federalists no chance of winning. At a Federalist rally, an artist (legend says it was Gilbert Stuart) drew a head, wings and claws on a map of the district, shouted: "That will do for a salamander." Cried a voice in the crowd: "Gerrymander...
Fisher Ames was the Herbert Hoover of his day-except in foreign policy. A great New England Federalist, in a time when the Federalists were down & out, "a man of singularly pure and unselfish character," Fisher Ames was one of those stiff U.S. statesmen, like Hoover, who are respected without being popular, who are admired-by people who vote for somebody else; and who are considered wise-by people who wish they had time to discuss his ideas...
...Fisher Ames could believe that if he returned in 1941 he would consider his early warnings wrong. Looking at the state of the world that did not follow his advice, seeing the need for U.S. aid to Britain to check tyranny again, the chances were that the crusty old Federalist would say: "This is what I was afraid would happen...
...Author Earle's targets is the deadening and widely peddled notion that the U.S. was somehow swindled into fighting Britain's war for her in 1917 and is about to repeat the same mistake. In his scholarly, 73-page booklet, Scholar Earle sends readers back to their Federalist and writings of the Founding Fathers to show that almost from the beginning of the Republic, Britain has been fighting America's wars when she has not been safeguarding America's peace. The Fathers, Earle points out, were realists; they differed on many things...
Highlight of the Federalist Union's program this year was a speech delivered last by Clarence Streit, founder of the "Union Now" movement...