Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday the ninth you came to the Harvard Democratic Club as a liberal Democrat and gave reasons why the present Republican regime should be brought to an end. As we do not feel, however, that the reasons you gave for this change were either clear or fully developed, we ask you to answer fully the following questions in order that liberals may see just where you and the Democratic Party stand...
...charged--correctly in our opinion--that the Republican Party was controlled by big business which has corrupted the government for the benefit of the favored few. The last Democratic president, who was elected in 1916 on the slogan. "He kept us out of the war" admitted in a speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob...
...Republican Club of Harvard will have an organization meeting at the Union on October 16 and Congressman Beedy of Maine will speak before the club at that time. Other pre-election activities of the Club include another luncheon at the Union on October 25, at that time Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of the class of 1908 will address the Republicans...
Five student political organizations have been formed, the Harvard Democratic Club, the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, the Hoover-for-President Club, made up of Democrats who have bolted the party, and the Smith-Robinson Club, made up of voters who in spite of regular party affiliations intend to support Smith. The list of speakers which these clubs have secured for the last three weeks of October includes Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Democratic nominee for governor of New York, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt...
Members of all the political clubs are expected to take part in a debate planned by the Harvard Debating Union on the question, "Whether or not the Republican party should be maintained in power." This debate will take place during the fourth week of October although the date has as yet not been definitely fixed. The respective clubs will back the sides of the argument which their organization represents...