Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star-eyed goddess of tariff reform" and who in 1884 coined the oldtime phrase, "A tariff for revenue only," a phrase repeated in national Democratic platforms as late as 1920. Nominee Smith had the double problem of breaking away from the revenue-only tradition and of embracing the historically Republican principle of protection without losing political steam...
...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...
...disputed the Republican claim of credit for "the new standard of American wages and American living conditions," by asserting that...
...relieve the Republican party and its managers of the necessity of spreading false propaganda about the Democratic attitude on the tariff by stating that neither the Underwood nor any other tariff bill will be the pattern for carrying into effect the principles herein set forth...
...significant bit of "crow-eating" because the People's Legislative Service is the voice of LaFollettism in Wisconsin. It was founded by the late great Robert Marion LaFollette as the official organ of his Progressive Republican movement. The statement came, moreover, two days after an editorial declaration for Smith by the Madison, Wis., Capital-Times. The backer and chief stockholder of the Capital-Times is Alfred Thomas Rogers, law-partner of the late great La-Follette. Another stockholder is Senator Robert Marion LaFollette...