Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that Mr. Roberts would bring victory and honor to the Republican party. If Mr. Butler is really in earnest in his quest for a good man to place on his party's ticket; a man whose record bears scrutiny, and whose accomplishments have been without parallel, he need go no further than seek to have Owen J. Roberts, of Philadelphia, become a candidate for this high office...
...Kansas has honored me by electing me to office under every national administration since 1892. ... If my friends of Kansas desire to send a delegation to the next Republican National Convention favorable to my nomination, I shall be greatly pleased to be their candidate. . . . Even to be considered for the Presidency is a great honor...
...first out-&-out Republican candidacy of the season. In August, Senator Curtis had discountenanced the Curtis-for-President clubs. Until last fortnight's developments, when Senator Fess of Ohio was scolded at the White House for excessive enthusiasm (TIME, Oct. 31), Senator Curtis was among those imperturbables who thought President Coolidge could be persuaded to "choose" again. Either some Potomac zephyr had now whispered that no such persuasion was possible or Senator Curtis could no longer resist temptation. In any case, the forthrightness with which he declared himself did credit to his intentions if not to his sagacity...
...gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen out of some political cartoon, was the hardest worker. "The intensity of John Brown of Ossawatomie and the shrewdness of Vidocq, the French detective," were...
...Republican party is saturated and honeycombed with money," Senator Walsh stated. "It is directed and controlled by wealth, and its sole object is to make the men of wealth safe. Into the regulation of tariff, trusts, and interstate commerce, the present administration is throughly entrenched, supporting those men and those corporations which contribute to the party funds...