Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President conferred with Representative John Quillin Tilson, Republican House Leader, who said: "Nothing can be done to stabilize the prices of farm products and take care of the surplus," and predicted that the Democrats would make no gains whatsoever in the autumn elections...
Last week more primaries were held. In Wisconsin two important Republican senatorial candidates were Governor John J. Elaine (Wet) supported by Senator Robert M. ("Sonny") LaFollette, and Senator Irvine L. Lenroot (Dry), enthusiastic Coolidge man, although he was elected six years ago on an "insurgent" platform. The extremely bitter fight was won by Governor Elaine, with some 15,000 plurality...
...Hampshire Senator George H. Moses, antiworld court and president pro tempore of the Senate, was renominated in the Republican primary by a two-to-one vote over onetime (1911-13) Governor Robert P. Bass, his nearest opponent. The score: Mr. Moses, 33,900; Mr. Bass, 16,200. Robert C. Murchie, Concord attorney, was nominated by the Democrats...
...among other events William McKinley was nominated Republican presidential color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...
...graduated from Wabash College (Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...