Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican. The event of the week's campaign from the Republican standpoint was a speech by President Coolidge at Baltimore. It was not strictly a political speech. The occasion was the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette; but Mr. Coolidge digressed on the subject of American Liberty and presently came around to the Constitution. Mr. LaFollette's name was not mentioned; but the President thoroughly denounced the LaFollette proposal to allow Congress to override a Supreme Court decision that any law is unconstitutional. Said he: "No President, however powerful, and no majority of Congress, however large, can take...
...Dawes maintained a continued silence which has endured since his speech on agriculture at Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). One of his chief occupations was the preparation of a speech for delivery in Milwaukee-pointblank at Mr. LaFollette. It was reported that Mr. Dawes, who had previously informed the Republican Speakers' Bureau that he would not speak more than three times a week, sent a second word-that he would not speak more than once a week. The campaign managers threw up their hands; Chairman Butler of the National Committee rushed west to Chicago to confer with the candidate about...
...that he had relatively little, as yet, on which to finance the rest of his campaign. Nevertheless, the LaFollette men continue optimistic, promise to carry Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Oklahoma and possibly California, Kansas, Arizona, Illinois. Wisconsin seems pretty cer tain. In the Republican primary there, the insurgent Congressmen who had been supporting LaFollette were all renominated with substantial majorities. Meanwhile, Senator Wheeler has continued his tour of New England, telling the mill hands: "When the people of the West got tired of their Congressmen, they got others. You can do the same. When their Senators were...
...Since attaining my majority, I have voted for nine Presidential nominees. Six of my votes were cast for the Republican nominees and three for the Democratic. If I am a bolter, I am a bolter of both parties, and twice as much a bolter of the Republican Party as of the Democratic...
...Tuchuns are military governors of the Provinces, or, more popularly, War Lords. They are the republican prototypes of the old Mandarin Viceroys and hold much the same power. Officially, there is no such thing as a Tuchun, the office having been abolished...