Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They said: "Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Mississippi openly opposed the nomination of Governor Smith...
...order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia and Arkansas, and "possibly" Virginia and Texas. They said the border-states of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma would surely be Anti-Smith. They planned mass meetings, advertised for funds, pledged themselves...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
...well enough alone and not have any Southern campaign headquarters. To do otherwise, he thought, would be to admit and thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...
Such was the state of affairs when Senator Fess of Ohio, a most optimistic Republican, said: "Governor Smith will undoubtedly carry the Solid South. We have a fighting chance in North Carolina but it is idle for us to talk about winning the electoral vote of any other Southern State...