Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes had little trouble showing that the Smith proposal to put the States into the liquor business is, by definition, State socialism. The occasion did not require Spokesman Hughes to explain why taking private citizens out of the liquor business, by Federal law, was not equally Bismarckian...
...Hughes sought to pinion Nominee Smith on Water Power by inquiring why "Government operation" had been omitted from the Boston speech. That was the teat, he said. "Government operation" would mean "State socialism." "Let Governor Smith clarify his position. . . . Does Governor Smith contend that the Government has the right, under the Constitution of the United States, to engage in the power business, irrespective of flood control, navigation, irrigation or scientific research or national defense...
Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
...entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, oldtime Democratic State leader, now a bitter anti-Smithite. renewed his fight with a three-hour speech at Raleigh...