Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans have Onward Christian Soldiers for their campaign song, as Mr. Fort says [TIME, July 9], I shall lose my last vestige of hesitancy and vote against Herbert Hoover the Quaker and for Governor Smith the Roman Catholic. Perhaps in the Quaker Church, with its lack of ritual, there is inculcated a disdain for the ritual of others. Brought up in the worship of silence, Mr. Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft...
...Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem than Smith...
That, being the only reference to the Republicans, meant that the Smith Democracy would not make Republican corruption its campaign issue, but would campaign on the Smith record of progressive government...
...laborious effort of Senator James A. Reed to get nominated at the convention took a surprising turn when onetime (1907-21) Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter whom...
Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...