Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Party Honesty: ". . . The Republican party today stands responsible for the widespread dishonesty that has honeycombed its administration...
...During the last presidential campaign the Republican managers were partially successful in leading the American people to believe that these sins should be charged against the individual rather than against the party. The question of personal guilt has now been thoroughly disposed of and in its place, challenging the wisdom and good judgment of the American people, is the unquestioned evidence of party guilt...
...Chief Justice of the U. S. As the youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss...
Said Son Taft: "I am sorrier than I can say that the people of this community have rejected the ideals and aims for which it [the Citizens' Republican Committee] stood...
Ohio. With a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senator, several Democratic Representatives and several Wet cities, the home state of seven Republican Presidents and the birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah...