Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express wish that in the Republican National Convention assembling June 10 my name be not placed in nomination. I request further that the Progressive delegates elected by the people of Wisconsin concentrate all their energies upon obtaining the adoption of the platform of Progressive principles which received an overwhelming endorsement in the April primary. . . . While the platforms submitted by Wisconsin have been scornfully rejected by Republican National Conventions since 1908, practically every important proposal submitted by the Wisconsin delegates up to 1916 has since been enacted into law. There are, indeed, only five of 31 planks submitted by Wisconsin...
...sure they did not succeed in writing the La Follette planks into the Republican platform. They were not expected to do that They were there to make a gesture-a pro forma offering of their planks. For the Republican Party to have accepted the offering would have been a sure proof of its insanity-because the La Follette platform denounced all the major works of the Republican Party-the tariff, the railroad law, the Mellon tax plan, the "degraded foreign policy...
...Marietta, Ohio, is situated Marietta College. There last week the class of 1884 was holding its 40th reunion. Naturally since a big Convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll-call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '84s who were listening in. And he exclaimed picturesquely: "Well, I declare...
...wheat prices in the Autumn of 1896 allayed agricultural unrest, defeated Bryan and elected McKinley. From a statistical point of view, there may well be a similar rise in wheat prices before election, with vast potential consequences to Robert M. La Follette and to the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. During the week, wheat rose 8? on the Chicago markets. Professor David L. Friday, famed agricultural economist, predicted $1.25 wheat by election time and $1.35 wheat by next December...
Theodore E. Burton, Congressman from Ohio: "The keynote speech which I made at the Republican National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...