Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported that some of President Harding's vacation advisers urged him to inaugurate an "open shop " campaign with a view to making the so-called "American plan " of labor policy a Republican plank in the next election. President Gompers of the A. F. of L. immediately issued an emphatic protest in which he compared the " open shop " advocates to the Italian Fascisti and wondered who would be their Mussolini...
...name of Roosevelt, want the present Assistant Secretary of the Navy to be the next Vice President. One of the arguments against Calvin Coolidge is that Massachusetts is too prominent in Washington?when it can number among her sons the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of War, the Republican leader of the Senate and the Vice President. But neither Coolidge nor Roosevelt is excited...
...present, the Republican ring-leaders appear to have every intention of renominating President Harding. Mr. Coolidge, nothing daunted by the President's rebuke of Mr. Daugherty, has come out with an assured statement that the party will be satisfied with its present leader. There is little else, in fact, that it can do. If Barkis himself is willing, it would scarcely be politic for the party to repudiate him. And of his willingness, the statements of Messrs. Daugherty and Coolidge are the best witness...
...conjecture market is still as lively as ever. Why were these gratuitous prophecies made so early and so positively? There is at least one plausible answer. Perhaps their object is to put a damper on insurgents within the Republican ranks. These rebels, attracted by the vigor of a Borah or the vote-swinging power of a Johnson, have been spreading sly stories about the President's discouragement over his work. They have bored from within, intending to scuttle the ship quietly when the time was ripe. They have imagined that they could persuade him of his unfitness for office...
This is well enough, but such early rattling of campaign machinery is dangerous. Just as Democratic lemon-squeezing is premature, so is a Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...