Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...facts and have followed the course of events that they can continually outwit the force of changing officials of the government who are unacquainted with their posts and have no time to learn their duties properly. No great republic has yet been able to use experts and retain its republican government; and it remains for us to find a means of using them and controlling them, or of losing our efficiency and power without them, or of becoming an autocracy under them...
...Frederic C. Howe, of Cleveland, Ohio, Secretary of the National Progressive Republican League, gave the seventh of the series of lectures on "The Social Problem and its Remedies," yesterday afternoon. His subject was "The Problem in Government" and dealt with the cure for boss rule...
...added to this bill that the state legislators must pledge themselves absolutely to support or ignore the agitation for direct election of United States senators. The next move was to establish the recall, so that the people could discharge those officers who proved faithless to their trust. Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries, the people forced the unwilling legislature to pass a genuine corrupt practices act, which is so severe as to prevent further corruption...
...Howe is secretary of the National Progressive Republican League, an organization lately formed to propagate the ideas of the insurgents in the regular party. He has been active in city and state affairs and was a member of the Ohio Senate between 1906 and 1909. He is the author of a number of books on municipal subjects and has lectured at Cleveland College, Western Reserve University, and the University of Wisconsin...
...Frederic Clemson Howe, of Cleveland, secretary of the National Republican Progressive League, will deliver the seventh of a series of lectures on "The Social Problem and its Remedies" in Emerson D, on Tuesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The title of the lecture is "The Problem in Government...