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...vote may seem very trifling, yet to Colonel William A. Gaston it means the loss of a senatorship. In 1916, by voting against. Wilson and since then by consistent opposition to Wilsonian policies which are still one of the textbooks of Democracy, he has brought upon himself complete repudiation by the Democratic National organization. Not an out and out repudiation, but a fatal negation of encouragement...
...city, Stamford Connecticut, becoming mayor for two terms, 1900 to 1902, and again from 1904 to 1906. He was Corporation Counsel of Stamford from 1908 to 1912, and was Democratic candidate for congressman-at-large from Connecticut in 1902, while in the campaign of 1916 he ran for the senatorship of his home state. Serving on the Democratic National Committee from 1900 to 1920, Mr. Cummings held the chairman ship of that body from...
...There is no strange reason for entering the Progressive party, or accepting a nomination for state senatorship," said Professor Hart. "Progressives apoligize neither for their existence, their principles nor their platform. They are doing just what the Republican party did in 1856. Harvard professors have occasionally been candidates for office, and in this campaign many college teachers and officers are in the thick of it. Professor Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia was a leading figure among the Taft delegation from New York at the Chicago convention, and had a large influence on the Republican platform; a former professor of Princeton...
...Present system directly induces nominations of unfit men for legislature. (1) Bosses nominate such men to help themselves to Senate: Pub. Op. XIV, 393 (Jan. 28, 1893).- (b) Present system prevents defeat of unfit candidates when nomiated.- (1) People dare not vote against them for fear of losing senatorship for their party: Atlantic, LVIII, p, 229 (Aug. 1891); Mitchell in Cong. Rec. April...
...Transcript mentions President Eliot as a possible candidate for the United States Senatorship...