Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaper advertisements covering full pages in the New York American (Hearst). One of them said (in part): "In the Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place...
...necessary to make his second postscript. This time he said: "There is no question of government ownership about Muscle Shoals, as the government already owns both the power and the nitrate plants. The major purposes which were advanced for its construction were navigation, scientific research and national defense. The Republican Administration has recommended that it be dedicated to agriculture for research purposes and development of fertilizers in addition to its national defense reserve. After these purposes are satisfied, there is a by-product of surplus power. That by-product should be disposed of on such terms and conditions as will...
Before lending attention to what the Democrat had said the Republican paid his respects to New England industriousness, to the importance of foreign trade, to the current administrations "measures to vigorously restore and expand" that trade, not omitting the Commerce Department's share in the work, with indirect reference to the Hoover deeds in breaking down foreign (British) monopolies (rubber, coffee...
...Republicans had been talking about the tariff. Nominee Curtis, Secretary Jardine, Senators Moses, Borah and Fess, Speaker Longworth, Under-Secretary Ogden Mills and many another had been saying and repeating what a dreadful thing it would be for the Democrats to obtain power, because they would lower the tariff. The tariff, thanks to Republican persistence, was beginning to loom with Prosperity as one of the campaign issues. National Chairman Work (Republican) drew National Chairman Raskob (Democrat) into a public tariff debate, in the course of which Mr. Raskob promised to resign if it could be shown that Nominee Smith...
...Nashville, the Nominee paused for an unscheduled speech, a reply to Nominee Hoover's speech in Tennessee the week prior. He came down hard on the Hoover equivocating over water power and Muscle Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they...