Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAMES M. COX?1920 Nominator ? Hon. James G. Johnson (Ohio) Seconders?Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Ky.) Senator Pat Harrison (Miss...
...Convention. The meeting of the Committee was to choose a temporary chairman, the so-called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker favorable to him. As compromises between the several factions, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi were the chief possibilities. The McAdoo group amicably agreed with the Underwood-Smith group in the choice of Mr. Harrison...
...naturally pleasing to be honored to preside over a convention that will assuredly nominate the next President of the United States"?the words came naturally to Mr. Harrison. They flowed from his tongue without a second's hesitation when he heard that he had been chosen as temporary Chairman of the Democratic Convention. He is a natural born partisan, and his name...
After such diatribes Mr. Harrison frequently retires to the cloakroom and meeting his Republican colleagues, many of whom are his good friends, pats them on the back. Vituperation is all in his day's work...
Representative Burton of Ohio will keynote for the Republicans. He is expected to make a good conservative speech, nothing spectacular. But what of Harrison? Won't he furnish drama! Won't he rake the Republicans over the coals! What will he leave of the Republican platform, that will then be a newborn babe, brought forth into the world only a few days before? Won't the Republican candidates slink away, like Cataline, before the scourging he will give them! Harrison is a man worth listening to. Hear his famous tongue as it has crackled...