Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican nominee for President in the last preceding Presidential election...
National party conventions make platforms, candidates and, in the immediate sense of the word, politics. So it is highly important that the same people who support a party should make its politics. It has been otherwise in the Republican Party. The South, which cast a very light Republican vote in the elections, had a disproportionately large vote in the national conventions...
...remedy this situation, the Republican National Convention of 1920 adopted a new set of rules for allotting delegates. Chairman John T. Adams of the Republican National Committee last week announced the allotment for the convention of 1924, by which the South will lose 23 delegates and the North and West gain 75 delegates...
...district delegate from each Congressional District maintaining therein a Republican district organization and casting 2,500 votes or more for any Republican elector in the last preceding Presidential election, or for the Republican nominee for Congress in the last preceding Congressional election...
...additional district delegate from each Congressional District casting 10,000 votes or more for any Republican elector in the last preceding Presidential election, or for the Republican nominee for Congress in the last preceding Congressional election...