Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klan and the Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities working for the election of the Republican national ticket. Their practices are intolerable. Their intolerance is disgraceful. They have exhibited some of the meanest motives which ever had a place in American politics. What they offer as patriotism and public morality has protected or promoted some of the worst corruption...
...Republican Party has these two allies and its campaign with them is sufficiently apparent to expose it to the properly indignant language of Governor Smith. The Tribune feels precisely as he does in the matter...
...that Governor Hughes is not running for President? Why didn't he take that nomination? He is doing more work to elect the Republican President than the nominee himself...
...Smith has brought the matter [Prohibition] into the open; he has destroyed the atmosphere of secrecy and insincerity that surrounded it; it cannot again be relegated to the hush-hush closet. From sheer gratitude for this clearing of a most poisonous atmosphere-which the Republican party and Mr. Hoover are both breathing and perpetuating-I shall vote for Mr. Smith...
...Republican candidate takes the credit for everything that has happened in this country that is any good to anybody. . . . Why, he even spoke about the increased number of children in the public schools. The Republican Party was not responsible for that. Thanks be to God, everybody had a hand in doing that. In my time I did my share...