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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan on his way to Europe, proposed to publish the Smith voting record the day he sailed. The New York Evening Post (Republican) anticipated him. It, too, had exhumed the record.. While awaiting Nominee Smith's reply to the subtlest, heaviest attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except...
...Literacy tests-requiring voters to prove that they could read and write. Education of the Negroes spoiled this. 2) Property requirements The Negroes' post-slavery discovery of industry and thrift spoiled this. 3) The "Grandfather clause"-admitting to suffrage any man who voted in 1867 or before, or was one son or grandson of such a man. The practical effect, if not the technical process, of denying Negroes a share in the government is, of course, a violation of the 14th and 18th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. It has become trite to point out the inconsistency...
Chicago's police chief, Michael ("Go Get 'Em Mike") Hughes, last week went to a hospital and had his tonsils removed. Then, recumbent, he resigned his post. Stated reason: health. The Hughes tonsils, however, had little to do with the Hughes resignation. The Hughes resignation had long been sought by citizens, including the loud Tribune, who had grown weary of Chicago's bawdy disorderliness under Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill the Builder") Thompson. The Hughes resignation seemed to indicate that an end to the whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten...
When the administration failed to deal as severely with British violation of the blockade laws as with German submarine violations, Bryan resigned his post...
found it advisable, last week, to post this notice on the doors of his cathedral...