Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequences of such an action might be far-reaching. As regards himself, it would probably mean that he would lose the prerogatives which he has always retained as a nominal member of the Republican organization. In the event of defeat this might be serious to him. As regards national politics, the consequences might be even more important. His supporters believe that he could carry from six to ten northwestern states. In so doing he would probably plan to prevent a majority in the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives. There his radical followers hold...
...Follette were actually chosen President by the House, the Senate in electing a Vice President could not elect a Vice President from his ticket, because the Senate is limited in its choice to the two highest on the list of Vice Presidential candidates. Then La Follette would have a Republican or a Democrat as his substitute in case of death. "Mr. La Follette," the calendar grimly remarks...
...Follette has not yet said he will be a candidate. His health, to mention only one consideration, might prevent his entering upon such an enterprise. Republican papers suggested that he might run out of resentment, by threatening his party to make it write his wishes into its platform...
James A. Frear, La Follette Republican from Hudson, Wis., spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...
...astute Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, thoroughgoing Democrat, has no use for diluted World Courts. Accordingly when Senator Lodge and his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee reported a proposal by Senator Pepper for a much amended and reservationed World Court, Mr. Glass explained: "If I were disposed to treat such grave matters with levity, I would say that Senator Lodge had changed his tactics-heretofore he has been throwing sand in the eyes of the people, while now he is throwing Pepper...