Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
...Pennsylvania, William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat, accomplished the lesser half of a political revolution by entering Philadelphia with a lead of 2,500. But the historic Philadelphia Republican machine swung the election to William S. Vare by some 230,000 votes. Mr. Wilson had carried 55 counties; Mr. Vare...
...such states as Pennsylvania, Indiana, Washington, Oregon, which are usually counted easily Republican, that the real significance of the election is to be found. Here the off-year anti-Republican trend was most noticeable, the Republicans winning by unusually small pluralities. For example, in Indiana, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson were reelected by some 20,000 votes instead of the normal 100,000 Republican majority. The Democrats have asked for a recount in several counties, but this will probably not change the results...
...Maryland that ardent letter-writer, Senator Ovington E. Weller, Republican, was defeated by Representative Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, who rode to victory on the wave of Wet-and-popular Governor Ritchie. Mr. Weller's campaign philosophy was that every voter would like to have a cheery letter from a U. S. Senator. He congratulated mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have...
...Since he was the only Republican Senator to be elected last week by a bigger majority than he had received in the Harding landslide of 1920, George H. Moses of New Hampshire announced that he felt like the "spared monument" of the Atlantic seaboard. Said...