Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spokesman told the press in the brief conference held last week, that reports about his active participation in Congressional campaigns this fall (in behalf of Senator Butler of Massachusetts or any other Republican) should be regarded as purely speculative; that Senator Wadsworth of New York is coming to visit him this summer; that the Adirondacks are a delightful spot; that the mosquito ravages had been exaggerated. The gentlemen of the press were impressed by the tan and the high spirits of the President...
Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester of Southern delegations to Republican National Conventions...
...Republican Presidential possibilities discreetly, anxiously, even feverishly await the day when President Coolidge decides whether or not he is going to be a candidate for a third term. Administrationists in Washington, D. C., say certainly; farm blocers in the Middle West say not a chance; the President does...
...this fall's Congressional elections. In the Senate, the Democrats now have 39 members; are in danger of losing none; have good chances of gaining from four to ten seats. However, they do not forget the late Senator Medill McCormick's poignant remark after the 1924 Republican Convention: "All we Republicans have got is the certainty that the Democrats will ball things up for themselves, somehow...
...political crockery to contemplate. At all times, of course, they have their governor, Len Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...