Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felicitated Representative Tilson (Conn.), Republican floor leader, upon his 65th birthday...
Thousands and thousands of ballots cast by lowans in November, 1924, were on trial. Nearly half were for extremely radical Republican Brookhart for Senator, nearly half for Democrat Steck. Iowa had counted Brookhart elected, but Steck protested, and the Senate Judiciary Committee began months ago investigation of the pieces of "opaque paper" which collectively were designed to express the sovereign will of the people of Iowa...
...while Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...
...York Democrats feared that the Republican party in power would juggle the metropolitan redistricting to their disadvantage. Upstate Republicans feared that nationally the redistricting would be harmful to prohibition...
...from feeling grieved, frazzled, petulant, as the session nears its close, Senators give every evidence of being in the best of tempers. It has been an easy session. The Republican majority has had its own way, cheerfully assisted by Democrats who were glad to supply superfluous votes on nearly every occasion. Now there is little to be done. In fact, most Senators find themselves with nothing to make speeches about. Wherefore, it is proposed that a measure of limitation of debate be enacted for the closing weeks...