Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powers that be in the Republican party must be cursing their fate that the first stages of a presidential campaign year should be featured by such revelations as the Senate committee is bringing to light in regard to the oil deals that took place in 1920. There no longer seems to be any doubt that graft was rampant in more fields than this one during the Harding regime, but here particularly lies the threat to a Republican victory in November. Dishonesty that took place eight years ago is not likely to arouse much public indignation now, especially if the guilt...
...these reforms save money for the taxpayers of Illinois. And all of them--since the business of reforming State governments had made such little headway be 1917 that any reform was notable and Lowden's reforms were sensational--brought Lowden fame. It is not strange that the Republican party, then preparing to break the eight years hold of the Democrats in Washington, should have begun to talk of Lowden. Nor it it strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting...
Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...
What will happen next, and whether the road will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden...
...prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell out completely with Lincoln. Discontented folk in the North-there were many-urged Frémont to run against Lincoln in 1864. He declined for "the welfare of the Republican party...