Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These and other Gooding pronouncements of Labor v. Wealth, were memorable because Senator Gooding, one of the wealthiest men in the whole wealthy Senate, is known as a stand-pat Republican...
Another week's dredging of the Oil Scandals produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...
...first impression," testified Mr. Patten, "was that I was indignant and mad at the tremendous expense the Republican Committee had gone to. . . . I simply stormed and I am afraid I used bad language...
...Patten: "Well, Cyrus calls himself a Democrat, but I don't know. Cyrus is a Democrat, I guess, because he was born that way, but I think he votes the Republican ticket about as often...
Chairman Butler telegraphed that he had never received any of Sinclair's Liberty bonds from Mr. Hays. At the same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion...