Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state, then later to the lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office was not by a Democrat or a Republican but by John Barleycorn-just before this sum total of all things iniquitous was kicked into his grave. The fact that John had once knocked out "our Frank," was so hotly resented by the good people of Ohio that they urged him thereafter to spend most of his time in Washington...
...Coolidge. The "Coolidge-anyway" movement, revived last fortnight as a local expedient in Illinois by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, drew another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen...
...Republican, in favor of having our party as a stalking horse for any candidate who emanates from super-government sources, is controlled by super-government policies and who, therefore, in event of election would be the agent of the super-government rather than the executive of the people under constitutional government...
Married. David Kalakaua Kawamanakoa, second cousin of Hawaii's last male ruler, King Kalakaua, son of Princess David Kawamanakoa, Republican National Committeewoman; to Eileen Hutchins, student at the University of Hawaii, daughter of Captain Charles T. Hutchins, U.S.N.; in Honolulu...
After that was 1856-"Free Speech, Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, Frémont and Victory." But, able slogan though it was, victory did not follow. The campaign was a bitter one. Frémont was the presidential nominee of the new and crusading Republican (Free Soil) party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil...