Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pride-pointing Republican editors gave Nominee Hoover credit for something new in politics. But, as a matter of fact-_. A few days before the Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
...weeks priorto both the Hoover-Baby and Smith-Baloney incidents, Nominee Curtis (Republican) was approached in Providence, R. I., where he was resting and yachting, and asked to pose for press cameras in the act of dirt-farming. Nominee Curtis' reply was: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming" (TIME, July...
...just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia...
Such was the state of affairs when Senator Fess of Ohio, a most optimistic Republican, said: "Governor Smith will undoubtedly carry the Solid South. We have a fighting chance in North Carolina but it is idle for us to talk about winning the electoral vote of any other Southern State...
Noting that no Southern politicians of any potency were at Asheville, observers were little impressed with the likelihood of the Anti-Smith conference's actually having an effect on the electoral vote of the ten states of the Solid South, which have never yet gone Republican and are never likely to so long as Negroes are allowed to vote and hold office by the Republicans. More important to watch for were repercussions along the doubtful Border...