Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political election": Here are the total popular votes for President by parties in the last four elections: YEAR REPUBLICAN* DEMOCRATIC† PROGRESSIVE...
...were from Wisconsin. More than that, all 40 had been selected with the approval of Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of that state; and still more, neither Senator LaFollette nor the Representatives of the state (all Republican insurgents, save one Socialist) were consulted. So was the patronage club leveled at the heads of the insurgents. Senator Lenroot is the only Wisconsin member in either House of Congress who approaches regularity. The event seemed to mark the end of the policy of trying to appease and mollify the insurgents-a policy of which Mr. Harding was the chief proponent. It seemed...
...once a lieutenant of Senator LaFollette. He, like most of the latter's lieutenants, eventually broke with his captain. In Mr. Lenroot's case, the break came over Mr. LaFollette's War policies. Mr. LaFollette does not forgive defection, although himself many times forgiven by the Republican Party. Ever since the break, Senators LaFollette and Lenroot have been antagonists. In 1920, Mr. LaFollette made vigorous efforts to bring about a defeat for Mr. Lenroot, who was up for reelection. Only the Harding landslide reflected the latter. But, in 1926, there will be no Presidential election to save...
...campaign of Mr. LaFollette and his followers against the Republican national ticket forced President Coolidge and William M. Butler to acknowledge that the insurgents had seceded from the Republican Party. So the Party has turned to attack them...
...most extraordinary comment on the situation came from Maximilian Harden, ardent Republican and fervent hater of the ex-Kaiser. Said he: "The writer is not Monarchist; but as a believer in democracy he must say that it is poor sportsmanship for a supposedly democratic nation to attempt to suppress the successful Party, however distasteful it may be. The Nationalists triumphed in May and again this month, despite all the organized powers of officials; and they are entitled to their share in the responsibilities of the new Government...