Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little group of wilful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." So said President Wilson of his Senate foes-most of them having been regular Republicans like the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few having been insurgent Democrats like Senator James A. Reed. But now the tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during...
...Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
Four days later, Ralph O. Brewster, big-mouthed Republican Governor of Maine, broke from his party strings and charged Mr. Gould with excessive use of slush in his primary campaign.* Said the Governor...
...paramount issue in this present campaign. It seems necessary to determine whether the people of Maine have developed a moral conscience as blunted as that of Pennsylvania or Illinois, or whether they are still mindful of the traditions and heritage of idealism and moral courage that have made the Republican Party great...
Senator-elect Gould is entitled to take his seat on Dec. 6 in the 69th Congress, and continue to serve through the 70th Congress. Thus, the slim Republican control Of the next Senate is still safe. However, Mr. Redman threatens to fight to unseat Mr. Gould, while at the same time, the Democrats are contesting the seats of Senators-elect Vare of Penn sylvania and Smith of Illinois...