Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has shown itself particularly active this fall with the Democratic Club's successful effort on the stump and the Republican Club's mast meeting and torchlight parade. The results of all the straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that...
...greatly impressed the other day at the forum debate between the Harvard Democrats and Republicans by the Fact that the second speaker fo the Republican Club brought out in one of his arguments the mistake which the present administration committed upon its accession in not offering any encouragement, not to say protection of co-operation, to the group of American bankers who had just succeeded with no, little difficulty in securing for American an equal share in the loan syndicate of the great powers in China. Ex-president Taft has put it will when he said in the Yale Review...
...sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing...
...those who have feared that not Mr. Hughes but the old standpat guard will rule the Republican party if put into power, this statement is undeniable confirmation of their fears: Mr. Hughes will not lead. He will sit back and let Congress in its infinite wisdom legislate or not legislate as the spirit moves...
...appeals made by the President's representatives at a Third avenue beer-garden. Secondly he cites as points in Mr. Wilson's favor the Army Bill, which disappointed and disgusted Secretary Garrison, and the Naval Bill "which," he says, "has done more for the navy than decades of previous Republican legislation." Increase of the navy, by the way, is something that no Republican (or Democratic) administration would have considered right in times of general peace, but--and here is the difference--in critical times of war, no Republican administration would have dreamed of delaying it and decrying...