Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equally famed as historian is William E. Dodd of the University of Chicago. He told why the Solid South might shift. But as to whether it would, he said, "The answer is not easy...
...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...
...Asheville conference was held just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted...
Such was the state of affairs when Senator Fess of Ohio, a most optimistic Republican, said: "Governor Smith will undoubtedly carry the Solid South. We have a fighting chance in North Carolina but it is idle for us to talk about winning the electoral vote of any other Southern State...
Noting that no Southern politicians of any potency were at Asheville, observers were little impressed with the likelihood of the Anti-Smith conference's actually having an effect on the electoral vote of the ten states of the Solid South, which have never yet gone Republican and are never likely to so long as Negroes are allowed to vote and hold office by the Republicans. More important to watch for were repercussions along the doubtful Border...