Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restless Northwest, the chances of a Progressive-Democratic sweep were lessened when Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Howell of Nebraska, both very vaguely Republican, decided to campaign as Hooverites despite the opposite action of their Progressive and Farmer-Labor comrades in Minnesota and Wisconsin...
Representatives.-The chairmen of the Congressional Committees-Indiana's Will R. Wood (Republican) and Arkansas's Will A. Oldfield (Democrat)-each predicted, as a matter of course, that their partisans throughout the land would win or retain enough seats to control the U. S. House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism...
...keen political speech. Its most effective part by far was that overtone of Republican formality. To his earlier rebukes. Spokesman Hughes added: "The whole tone of Governor Smith's campaign has been far below what the country had a right to expect...
Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
Campaigner Hughes next went to Chicago. There he defended Republican progressiveness, prosperity, economy. He called some of the Smith speeches "clap-trap," "amazing...