Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democrats polled some 160,000 votes (40,000 less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
...Missourian Reed also noted an expenditure of $16 for water at the Pinchot headquarters and solemnly demanded to know if that item was not padded...
Then it was that Senator Jim Reed sprung a surprise, and for once the fighting Missourian had the Democrats behind him to a man. He called a resolution ordering a special committee of five Senators to investigate campaign expenditures, a committee on which there should be two regular Republicans, one Progressive Republican and two Democrats?giving the opposition the majority...
...What had he done, left undone? How had he sinned against the spirit of the Drys? This is what happened: The General was called back again before the committee to amplify certain complicated figures which he had previously presented. All went well with him until Senator Reed, mighty Missourian, began to quiz him in tones now jocular, now earnest. The Senator tried to get him to admit that some of the "light wine and beer bills" would, if passed, solve the enforcement question. The General refused to make any such admission. Then the Senator got to putting hypothetical questions, hedged...
That was all. The mighty Missourian had not got much?just a wee bit. But the ink was not yet dry on the "extras" when General Andrews was being shaped in the public eye as John Barleycorn Redivivus. Quoth, for example, Senator McKellar of Tennessee...