Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Watson stands high in Administration councils. He is not only a member of the Republican Senatorial Committee, but he is next to Senator Lodge for the Republican leadership in the Senate. In 1916 and again in 1920 he defeated Thomas Taggart, Democratic "boss" of Indiana...
Asked if he were willing to " con-ede that it is all up with the Republican Party now " in the next election, he replied: "No, sir, I am not. What we need now is some old-fashioned party loyalty...
...noteworthy that this optimistic view is not generally shared among Republican leaders. Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, and Representative Wood, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, view with alarm both the President's World Court proposal and discontent among the farmers. Senator Watson's optimism is not as sweet as the President's. But it is more specific...
...throw his hat into the ring for the Presidential nomination in 1924. Political quidnunes surmised that his reasons were a firm belief that Harding now has the Republican nomination secure, and a fear of a third party after his Progressive experience...
Senator La Follette, radical Republican from Wisconsin, reached Washington after several weeks of rest at Battle Creek, Mich., and asserted: "The issues (of the next political campaign) will be domestic, and the greatest of these issues will be whether the people of the U. S. are going to take their government into their own hands...