Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frederick H. Gillett, the white-goateed junior Senator from Massachusetts, made a speech a fortnight ago to a band of Republican women workers gathered in the Hotel Kimball at Springfield, Mass. He said: "It is at gatherings like these that we must sow the seeds which will win the election." He proceeded to comment on Nominee Smith's appeal for "a certain class or element of citizens...
...Springfield the charm, culture, intelligence of his friend, Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Then he said: "Of course, I cannot say very much of Mrs. Smith, because I have never known her, but if the contest was between Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Smith-He did not finish the sentence but the Republican ladies of Springfield thought they understood and applauded knowingly, enthusiastically...
Senator Gillett's "seed" speech was duly reported in the reliable Springfield Republican, oldtime Bible of many a G. 0. Politician. The "seed" about Mrs. Smith soon brought forth hot letters from Massachusetts Democrats. The Republican newsman, George E. Pelletier, who had reported Senator Gillett's remarks, called on the Senator to see if he would like to end the unfinished sentence about Mrs. Smith. The Senator said he did not exactly recall what he had said, that it was unimportant anyway...
...there is an outside chance for the Republicans to drive home the Methodist-Baptist bone-dry wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman...
Editors of Republican newspapers pointed with pride last week to "honest dignity" in Nominee Hoover. When his train paused in Montello, Nev., a woman thrust her child upwards to be kissed. The Nominee took the child and held it, but said: "I will kiss no babies for publication...