Word: partisanships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sooner or later this realignment must inevitably take place. The line of cleavage between the Republicans and Democrats, once fairly marked, has recently become less acute, less perceptible, and in many cases has been obliterated. Great issues have become more identified with personal than with political partisanship, as the Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire...
Having voted in November, 1918, to divide their Government in the midst of a world crisis, the American people now find themselves without a Government that can function. Partisanship has paralyzed its members. The commanding prestige that the United States won in the war has been frittered away, and the country, after all its superb achievements, stands before the world today discredited and without a real friend. This is the penalty of that betrayal of faith which is all concentrated in the repeated refusal to ratify the treaty of peace. So far as the United States Senate is concerned...
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are blameless. Both groups, drunk with partisanship and selfish ambitions, have preferred national ignominy to sacrificing their party pride. Although "get together" has been the people's instructions to their Senators for the last six months, obstinacy and arbitrariness have been the order...
...offense of insubordination. He has maintained himself not because of the love and affection in which he is held, but by the politicians of the Democratic Party, but by the sheer power of the most penetrating and dominant intellect ever known in the White House. When a venomous partisanship that could not deal with him on a plane of mental equality succeeded in breaking him down, nervously and physically, the American people suddenly discovered that they were without leadership and that their Government had ceased to operate...
...Republican or a Progressive or an Independent. He is the kind of man that ought to be President of the United States, and he is the man The World intends to support for President of the United States regardless of all the artificial barriers of a debased and discredited partisanship...