Word: lowdenizer
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...Manhattan, Mr. Lowden had said: "I am not going to do anything to create bad blood." But in Chicago he was excited and emotional over what he said was the East's shocking disregard of Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen farm bill, containing the "equalization fee," talisman of the Lowden campaign, lay on President Coolidge's desk awaiting a probable veto. Mr. Lowden intensified the political significance of the bill by shouting...
...campaign in either party-and that it fixed the lines of force in the coming G. O. P. convention. Others viewed it as only a temporary resurgence of an undercurrent which can be diffused in the convention and submerged afterwards.* No one suggested that it bettered Candidate Lowden's chance of being nominated but all were agreed that it threatened Candidate Hoover...
...three factions in the Republican party: Hooverism, anti-Hooverism and the Administration. Of these, Hooverism is the most popular, as demonstrated by the primary elections. The Administration is the most potent, by virtue of its record and occupancy. Anti-Hooverism is miscellaneous but its chief hero is Candidate Lowden, because he has a definite program for a large, definite group of voters. That this program is more important than personal success to Candidate Lowden is not doubted, except by such cynics as could read "sour grapes" between the lines of his conditional renunciation last week...
...Administration declared itself wholeheartedly on the side of Hooverism, there would have been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...York World, which reminded people that Mr. Mellon came to office during the Harding regime, no Republican had a better right than he to talk, as he did last fortnight, about "the standard that we have set for this high office." Perhaps a thought of this crossed Candidate Lowden's agitated mind when he retorted to the Administration, for Mr. Lowden is something of a patrician too, in a large, squire-like...