Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during this decade seemed rapidly to be acquiring the title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote for whatever measure the Republican leaders declared good...
...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
From an Electoral College standpoint, the new distribution, with its ten added votes in California and Michigan, gives normally Republican states an electoral gain while Democrats show a slight loss, reductions in much of the Solid South balancing other increases. The reapportionment also will increase urban versus rural representation, thus possibly aiding the Wet cause...
...York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt certain that the Republican Legislature would see to it that his district would disappear in the redivision of Massachusetts. He voted, nonetheless, for his own probable extinction...
...political campaign cost about 30? a vote, according to final figures last week made public by Republican and Democratic National Committees. Republicans spent $6,276,000. Democrats spent $5,342,000. As some 36,000,000 votes were cast, the combined expenditures of $11,618,000 represented slightly less than one third of a dollar for each ballot...