Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Wilson was abroad everyone knew that America had her finger in the stew. Daily bulletins from Paris told how the world was being reordered by the arbiters of destiny. But then the Democratic Party, the party of participation, was in power here. Now the Republican Party, the party of isolation, is in power, and accordingly one would expect matters to be very different, at least on the sur face. This is, indeed, the case...
...Follette Progressive ticket, thereby breaking the Federation's policy. If this was their aim, which it is now permissible to doubt, they failed. The Executive Council stayed close to its policy; but by endorsing LaFollette and Wheeler as independent candidates, by endorsing their platform, by denouncing the Republican and Democratic candidates and platforms, it threw its moral weight behind the LaFollette Progressive movement...
...Republicans. "The Republican Convention gave Labor's representatives a brief and curt hearing. The Republican platform ignores entirely the injunction issue. It fails to deal with Labor's right to organize or the right of the workers, even in self-defense, collectively to cease work. That platform sustains the Railroad Labor Board, with all that it means in the direction of governmental coercion of wage-earners. It fails to recommend the ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
...Republican Convention nominated candidates unacceptable to Labor...
Democrats. "Labor's representatives submitted to the Democratic Convention identical proposals to those submitted to the Republican Convention. At this Convention an extended hearing was granted. The Democratic platform pledges that party to legislation to regulate hours and conditions of all labor, a proposal against which the American Federation of Labor has struggled throughout its whole history. It is silent as to the injunction. It does not meet the Railroad Labor Board issue. On that point it is so equivocal that the enemies of Labor may well feel that their desires will be met. It, too, fails to recommend...