Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston had been big-town gloria in excelsis! But now the Derby was skimming out into the chill dew of New England's rural Republicanism. There were fears lest it emerge bedraggled. So the Smith Special hurried until it reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...
...only children but such massed myriads of adults turned out that even New York's arch-Republican Herald Trib une was obliged to report...
...Probably the greatest demonstrations ever accorded a Democratic presidential candidate in normally Republican southern New England attended Gov. Smith's pas sage...
Derby folk thought the peak of the day came when it skimmed across another state line to rock-ribbed Republican Hartford, Conn. Here five miles of packed humans jammed the streets, through which police fought a slow way for the Candidate's car. And at no point did the crowds thin or taper off?as happened in Chicago...
...first is party responsibility. When a party by vote of the people goes into office, it assumes responsibility for all and everything its accredited officers do or have not done. . . . A vote for the Republican Party indorses its record of crimes...