Word: plat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pres. Cleveland, July, '94. II. Mr. Bryan is not a fit man to be President. (A) His political tendencies are against the best American ideas. (1) He and his party show a lack of reverence for judicious authority, (a) The Chicago platform earnestly menaces the Supreme Court (Dem. Plat., '96.) (b) Mr. Bryan sneers at the Federal Judiciary and Judge. ("Cross and Crown" speech and elsewhere). (2) If he were elected, we should be in danger from the wild vagaries of the Populist Platform (Pop. Plat., '96). (a) He would owe his election to Populist votes. (b) He would...
...advisable to return the Democratic party to power in 1896-(a) for the Republican party has a better financial policy than the Democratic party.- (1) This is shown by the vote on the repeal of the Sherman law (Forum, May, 1894).- (2) It is shown by recent party plat forms in representative Republican States-(x) Massachusetts, (y) New York.- (3) It is shown by recent votes in Congress.- (b) The tariff policy of the Republican party is at present better for the country than that of the Democratic party.- (1) The Republican party has done all it could to pass...
...words commonly meaning "go up" and "go down" occur, and has skillfully shown that in Aristophanes' time they were used simply as stage terms in the sense of "go on" or "go off," this signification arising from the early Greek religious processions where the first actor mounted a wheeled plat form to deliver his verses in honor of the god. Next he discusses the "positive testimony against the existence of a stage furnished by Aristophanes," under five argumentative heads. "First, the argument from mingling of chorus and actors; second, from the close of the plays; third, from impossible situations; fourth...