Word: mckinleyism
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...more Democrats than Republicans. This was partly explained by the fact that many Democrats come from southern states which have few Civil War (Union) veterans. It was natural enough to find the Republican insurgents against the President. But where were the regulars-Brandegee, Elkins, Fess, Jones of Washington, McKinley, McNary, Moses, Shortridge, Spencer, Watson, Willis, et al.? All voting against the veto. Where were Lodge and Lenroot? Paired against the veto. Whereas among the Democrats, Glass, Bruce, King, Underwood and others were on the President's side. Following the President's veto only five Republicans-Cameron, Edge...
...veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention, not to say interest. On the morning of the day on which the bill was passed, seven Republican Senators took breakfast at the White House. They were Keyes, McKinley, Phipps, Sterling, Cameron, Dale, Harreld. Presumably the President argued with them to support his veto. All of them had voted for the bill originally except Harreld, who had been absent. At two in the afternoon the bill came before the Senate. The clerk read the President's veto message...
...McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations -James Ford Rhodes - Macmillan...
...Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley...
...Modjeski was born in Poland in 1861. He has just been awarded one of the annual John Scott medals by the American Philosophical Society. He designed and built the Columbia and Willamette River bridges, Ore.; the McKinley bridge, St. Louis; was one of the associated engineers of the Quebec bridge; and is now chief engineer of the Delaware River bridge, Philadelphia, which will have the longest single span...