Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah had been the biggest Republican gun up to the entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...
...sixty years the Republican Party kept a politically solid North by creating and maintaining a bitter sectional feeling," he said, "but disintegration has come, and like a pack of timber wolves, smelling for the scent of fresh preserves, the leaders, orators and propagandists of the Republican Party are moving into the Southland...
...invade and win the South, the conventional Mark Hanna Republican of the brewery and bloody shirt will not do. There must be some disguise. The window dressing, this stalking horse, this bearer southward of the Judas kiss, seems to have been acquired in the person of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho." He described Senator Borah as a "peddler of political wares which he himself did not believe in when they were being made...
There were crowds and there was noise when the Brown Derby's train, coming from Albany, stopped at Springfield. Editor Waldo Cook, 63, of the Springfield Republican, said he had never seen anything like it in all his many and much observing years. At Worcester, the people and the noise were again one flesh. But at Boston, the people and the noise were such a People and such a Noise as no ecstasy had ever before sublimated. Journalistically recordable fact was of little importance, save as the finite is important in the infinite. Recorded fact was as follows...