Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrange a reciprocal tariff agreement with Canada (1911) by which each country would lower its protective tariff duties on the other's products. Canadian reciprocity was a pet issue of William Howard Taft, the measure was passed in the U. S. Congress by a combination of Democratic and Republican votes and injured President Taft with many members of his own party. The President's victory was then made to appear somewhat futile when the Canadians overthrew the Laurier Liberal government, which supported the reciprocity movement...
Politically speaking, indeed, President Coolidge will be traveling "Out Where the Blues Begin." Most South Dakotans are farmers, most farmers are disgruntled, most disgruntled among farmers are the farmers of South Dakota. From neighboring Nebraska comes In-surgent-Republican Senator George W. Norris. It also happens that South Dakota holds its presidential primaries earlier than any of its sister states...
Last week the Publishers' Auto-caster Service (an organization supplying news items to 2,000 small-town weekly newspapers) published the result of a straw vote in which 362,210 voters in 29 states named their men for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination. Though President Coolidge ran first among the Republicans with 87,176 votes, Mr. Lowden was a close second with 80,066 votes. Since President Coolidge had the advantage that goes with incumbency of the office, observers were surprised at the Lowden showing. Mr. Lowden's strength, however, was partly discounted by the fact that...
President Coolidge and Mr. Lowden together polled about 85% of the entire Republican vote (some 200,000). Senator William Edgar Borah, pugnacious Idahoan, ran a poor third with 14,525 supporters, Vice President Charles G. Dawes received 9,938 and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover...
...this policy of being neither Republican nor Democratic but of converting both Republicans and Democrats to its views that distinguished the Anti-Saloon League from that unfortunate political organization the Prohibition Party...