Word: lowdenism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counting. Of the 1,089 Republicans who assemble in June at Kansas City, a simple majority of 545 are all that will be required to nominate. But such simple majorities are seldom arrived at without preliminary complications. What with Favorite Sons and Uninstruction and the wishful valor of Candidate Lowden's friends, the height of Hoover optimism last week was 414 delegates, or 131 shy. And of these 414, only 45 were on-the-dotted-line, there having been up to last week only seven State conventions and one primary election...
...more significant than any other accident of geography and the calendar; and although only 17 States hold primary elections; leaving popular choice elsewhere in the hands of convention floorwalkers; and although the next pronouncement of -vox populi, in North Dakota, was scheduled to be unanimously in favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should be, as they call him at the Department...
Against. The following Republicans are opposed, more or less openly, to Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Candidates Curtis, Dawes, Lowden, Norris, Watson, Willis; G. 0. Politicians in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois (the so-called Six Big States, with a total of 337 delegates, which the G. O. Politicians hope to take to Kansas City uninstructed, for "trading" in a hotel-room nomination...
Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, holds third place with 1,727 votes, while, Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, is fourth with 1,071. Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland. Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, and Thomas I. Walsh, of Montana, are close contenders, with 809, 656, and 491 votes respectively. Charles Curtis, of Kansas, with 163, Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, with 152, and A. Victor Donaliey, with 114, also of Ohio, trailed...
...Dorlot 19 Will Rogers 14 Owen D. Young 11 Carter Glass 6 John W. Davis 4 William G. McAdoo 3 Oscar W. Underwood 2 A. Lawrence Lowell 1 Joshua Whatmough 1 Charles A. Lindbergh 1 James Angell McLaughlin 1 Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Frank B. Willis 40 William E. Borah 28 Alvan T. Fuller 27 Charles E. Hughes 25 George W. Norris 21 Calvin Coolidge 9 J. Thomas Heflin 5 Roscoe Pound 3 Nicholas M. Butler 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 Dwight H. Morrow 1 Will H. Hays...