Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three months ago, when James Eli Watson of Indiana was chosen by his Republican colleagues to lead them in the Senate, many were the predictions of trouble ahead for the north wing of the Capitol. Last week that trouble came, brimming up in the Senate to give Leader Watson a bad time...
...politician with whom the Hoover Administration is supposed to have little in common. But for that circumstance, Leader Watson could scarcely have asked for more favorable auspices when he set out in March to lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow Republicans last week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome...
This testimony greatly distressed Senator Watson, then an active presidential candidate. He denied the Rogers statement but not, according to his friends, emphatically, convincingly enough. Thereafter, according to the charges in the Rogers damage suit, Candidate Watson, Republican National Committeeman M. Burt Thurman and six other Indiana politicians (all defendants in this case) conspired to compel Plaintiff Rogers to reverse his testimony given the Senate committee...
...voters against the resolution were Senators Thomas Love and Julien Hyer, "Hoovercrats" who helped to turn the State Republican last year. When Senator T. J. Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies...
...appeared likely to be distinguished more for its absentees than its guests. Said North Carolina's Senator Simmons: "Harmony ... requires the unhorsing of Raskob." South Carolina's Senator Blease added: "I've been with the Smith crowd as far as I care to go." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune gleefully played up Democratic difficulties, fanned the flames of schism...