Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington will see Fordney, McCumber, Calder, Sutherland, Poindexter--names familiar to the majority of newspaper readers--for the last few months. Frelinghuysen "playmate of the President", France, Dupont, Mondell--will be gone. The Republicans stand a rebuked party, Lodge still there but badly shaken, Beveridge perhaps by the connotation of his name. Though speculation is already rife as to Congress in the next two years--a very small Republican majority; the balance of power in the hands of radicals Republican in name only; a "legislative moratorium"--the rebuked Sixty-seventh, and the incumbent Republicans, have still chance of accomplishing something...
...much speculation. The Progressives of 1912 rallied entirely about the standard raised by Roosevelt and their temporary success was due to Roosevelt's personality. On his withdrawal the party, as such, vanished from active politics. But it left its mark on the policies of both the Democratic and Republican leaders, and it left its name as a permanent bogie to be dragged forth again and again as a warning or a threat...
...passing of ten years the bogie has lost some of its effectiveness. Yesterday's elections were for the most part contested between the Republican Old Guard and the Democratic Reactionaries over a wide and empty No Man's Land...
...absence of issues as a decisive force is striking. In Massachusetts the candidates of both great parties have maintained the same attitude on the more outstanding questions. In New Jersey a prominent "wet" was the Republican candidate for governor on a "dry" ticket and his Democratic rival, a teetotalier, was politically a "wet." All over the country conditions have been much the same--a blurring of issues and comparative stagnation in both great camps...
...Democrats swept New York with one of the greatest majorities ever given a political party in the Empire State. Alfred E. Smith was victorious over Governor Nathan L. Miller, his Republican rival, by some 400,00 votes. Royal S. Copeland also won over the present Republican Senator, William M. Calder...