Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that here after debate do close at ten o'clock, was read and adopted. The question selected for the next debate was as follows: Resolved, That there should be free coinage of silver in the United States. The debate of the evening was on the question: Resolved, That a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. R. L. O'Brien, L. S., opened for the affirmative. He declared that all arguments directed against the advisability of government by a democracy in Brazil were invalid; because in becoming a republic, Brazil did not necessarily become a democratic republic...
...United States The United States, too, had a small population and a large territory at the beginning of the government. The Spanish Americans have proved by their commerce that they can make a republic successful. All the good that the emperor has done has been under a government practically republican...
Question: Resolved, That the republican form of government is the best for Brazil...
PHOTO. COM.HARVARD UNION.- Debate postponed one day. Will be held Friday December 6. Question: Resolved, That the republican form of government is the best for Brazil. Books on subject reserved...
...Thayer, L. S., in opening the debate for the negative, said that the condition of affairs could be summed up in the one expression, "put yourself in his place." He said he would agree with his opponents that the republican party was lazy but the question to be proved was whether or not President Harrison had violated his pledges. The president has been surrounded by incompetent heads of departments who wish to turn out men; in addition he is oppressed by poor service. The platform of the republican party he said, favors the extension of the civil service reform...