Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nerve, the brass, of a Republican to walk down on Long Island and talk about what their party is doing to give the people parks...
...Republican candidate is what we call...
Able, experienced, great-capacitied Senator Robinson spent the last nights and days campaigning arduously in southern Illinois, where his voice could be heard in hard-fought Missouri. He made a side trip, for some reason, across Indiana into arch-Republican Ohio. Then he went home to Arkansas, one State he knew was going Democratic...
...Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite...
...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...