Word: standpatism
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Consolidating the personal opposition to present-day Prohibition among the 200 men polled, and stepping its ratio up to the full membership of Congress (531), it is found that, politics aside, 369 members would favor a Change as opposed to 162 standpat Drys. But the same method of calculation shows that Modification in a real test would poll less than 225 votes. Therefore among the 369 privately for a Change there are more than 150 Senators and Representatives who vote Dry and think, if not drink...
...Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
Strange it is that this "standpat" Republican should have been born in Guilford, N. C., in 1836 in the reign of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic pals spilled cider on the White House carpets. Then he spent his boyhood near Terre Haute...
Last week he went into a deep sleep; after ten hours his heart muscles weakened; he died a "standpat" Republican, with something of the humanity of Abraham Lincoln, something of the fire of "Jim" Reed...
...those who have feared that not Mr. Hughes but the old standpat guard will rule the Republican party if put into power, this statement is undeniable confirmation of their fears: Mr. Hughes will not lead. He will sit back and let Congress in its infinite wisdom legislate or not legislate as the spirit moves...