Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make pleasant reading for the 700-odd delegates who plan to arrive more or less in Goldwater's pocket. Sample Tribune comment: "Because Senator Goldwater is the one candidate who can capture large chunks of Democratic votes without conceding to the Democrats more than a handful of GOP votes, he is the obvious choice for the minority party." Goldwater has remained the Tribune's choice through thick and thin. It classified Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton's last-minute arrival onstage as "a late and vain challenge" and "an exercise in futility...
RIPON, Wisconsin, July 4--Declaring that "the Republican party faces its greatest internal crisis since its founding 110 years ago," the Ripon Society today unequivocalbly condemned the principles of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) as untrue to the "moral" traditions of the GOP...
Recalling the pre-Civil War stirrings of the GOP, the statement proudly hailed the precepts of the early party: "It was a moderate coalition, avoiding the elements of fanaticism and hatred that sought to capture its center. Now as never before," it continued, Republicans should seek leadership in the example of Lincoln...
...president of the Ripon Society, John S. Saloma, assistant professor of Political Science at M.I.T. issued the 1500-word statement at the "Republican House," a restaurant adjoining the one-room school house where the GOP had its first formal meeting...
While admittedly impressive, the list is little cause for comfort. All the men indicted, save Public Safety Commissioner Frank Giles, are still in office, doing business as usual. Speaker Thompson has flatly refused to resign, saying it will prejudice his case in court. Efforts by the inept GOP minority in the House to unseat him have failed, and for the moment anyway, Thompson, instead of being in irons, is still the Iron Duke of Ludlow...