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Sanders & Hanna. The Maine election upset every intelligent Republican except plump, easy-going Everett Sanders. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. His job is to direct a national contest which in its economic outlines and social undertones has been compared to the presidential campaign of 1896. In that September, William...
When silver became king and William Jennings Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion...
Thus emerged in the campaign "the Garner issue"?an attempt by the G. O. P. to frighten the conservative electorate with the spectre of what would happen if a Texas "wild man" like Nebraska's William Jennings Bryan were placed within one step of the White House.
"Is he condemning the Wilson Administration for having given the Allied nations nearly all the money the American taxpayers owned and asking not even a definite promise to pay? Is he going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole...
But in every unbossed convention there are imponderables which a compelling personality on the rostrum may miraculously put into action. William Jennings Bryan had the power to sway delegates to unexpected results. Alfred Emanuel Smith will enter the convention, not only, as a candidate for the Presidency but also as...