Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insult from Editor William Allen White, Republican, of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette to Candidate Hoover which will not soon be forgotten was the following, circulated in public prints last week...
...Republican shambles, he [Mr. Hoover] is vaguely reminiscent of a plump and timorous capon, fluttering anxiously on the outskirts of a free-for-all cockfight...
...want the nomination unless the Republican party meets the farm issue fairly and squarely!. . . I have no hankering for the kind of fame that rests on an unsuccessful Presidential campaign!. . . Agriculture realized the moral and economical wrong of Slavery and joining with Business it created the Republican party. I feel that there is again a crisis and unless this partnership [Agriculture & Business] is maintained now, the candidate named at Kansas City will have a hard road to travel...
There are three factions in the Republican party: Hooverism, anti-Hooverism and the Administration. Of these, Hooverism is the most popular, as demonstrated by the primary elections. The Administration is the most potent, by virtue of its record and occupancy. Anti-Hooverism is miscellaneous but its chief hero is Candidate Lowden, because he has a definite program for a large, definite group of voters. That this program is more important than personal success to Candidate Lowden is not doubted, except by such cynics as could read "sour grapes" between the lines of his conditional renunciation last week...
...program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...