Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic and Republican newspapers, almost without exception, said that the Smith reception had far surpassed Lindbergh's. The most emotional story was despatched by Robert Barry of the New York Evening World. The Boston Herald contributed a new version of an old jingle...
...said: "I will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...disagree entirely with Mr. Hoover and with Mr. Hughes and with all the Republican orators. I believe that under constructive, forward-looking leadership the American people themselves are fully competent to make the proper disposition of this question. So much for that...
...think," concluded Nominee Smith, "I have fairly made out a case here tonight that the Republican Party is seeking to continue its control of this Government under false pretenses. It is seeking to keep that control by misstating and misrepresenting the Democratic attitude, and misstating, by the same token, and misrepresenting its own attitude on a great many of the big questions...
...Baltimore. The Smith words were again like the gallop of cavalry in brisk attack. Of Republican Foreign Policy he said: "You cannot preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in Latin America." He flayed the G. O. P. for failure to reorganize the Government as promised, both in 1920 and in 1924. He ridiculed Mr. Hughes for saying that "prohibition" is a sham battle, while Senator Borah pronounces it the paramount issue of the campaign...