Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee said that the Hoover campaign would be conducted on a budget of less than $3,000.000 (TIME, July 9), there was a general raising of eyebrows among political commentators, a general lowering of mouth-corners by local G. 0. P. bosses. Some $5,300,000 was recorded in the Harding-Coolidge campaign and more than $3,000,000 in the Coolidge-Dawes. This year, Chairman Work said, "We have candidates who will not need so large a sum." It sounded admirable, but a revised estimate was not unexpected...
Wise men have said that if any Republican, at any time during this campaign, should make any overt insinuation against Mrs. Smith's social fitness for the White House, it would be touching off political dynamite...
Postmistress Hattie Giddings of Doles, Ga., said that before and after Benjamin Jefferson Davis, Negro Republican, got her her post, she was requested to give money...
Georgia's Republican politicians rebutted these tales, and many another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...
...investigation was all anti-Republican in tone, what with Federal patronage having been Republican for eight years and the Senate investigators being mostly Democratic. So Postmaster General New asked to be heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson...