Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, the primary in Massachusetts approached. The same thing that was happening elsewhere began to happen in Massachusetts. This time President Coolidge wrote a note to Chairman Francis Prescott of the Republican State Committee and to him said: "Report has come to me that some persons in Massachusetts are proposing to write in my name as a candidate for President at the primaries on April 24. Such action would be most embarrassing to me and, while appreciating the compliment that is intended, I request that it not be done...
Apropos the resurgence of Coolidge-Anyway, on the very morning that President Coolidge's note to Massachusetts was released, the New York World, whose interest in Democrat Smith might be expected to make it help the nomination of the least formidable Republican candidate, published one of its bold uncompromising editorials, entitled "The Candidacy of Mr. Hoover." The World said...
...Republican leaders know that as against Gov. Smith their local tickets in the cities all the way from Boston to Chicago are going to be dangerously threatened. Naturally they are looking for a Presidential candidate who looks as if he might avert this danger...
...There are a number of reasons for Mr. Hoover's weakness in the debatable territory. The Republican farmers in the section from Illinois west have an old prejudice against him which is difficult to remove by explanations, especially since he is lined up against them on the McNary-Haugen bill. The Republican big business men of the East have, so far as one can ascertain their state of mind, a rather subtle but deep distrust of his temperament and his philosophy. They seem to feel that Mr. Hoover thinks too highly of his own judgment in business affairs...
...planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk trust, of starving New York's babies. Smith had answered, defied, publicly tongue-lashed Hearst, with Irish violence. Now, Hearst had forgotten, but Smith had not forgotten. To Tammany's coalition proposal...