Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orders. National G. O. P. Chairman Work and a squad of speakers traveled to Maine, by tradition a political barometer though its Presidential readings have been only one way (Republican) for 52 years.* Nominee Smith spent the week concentrating on the first premise of a Democratic victory, New York State. Busiest of all, National Democratic Chairman Raskob, fourth of the Big Four, traveled from Manhattan to the Midwest, to attend Nominee Robinson's notification, to see the farmers for himself, to lubricate local machinery, to arrange Nominee Smith's autumn itinerary. Mr. Raskob referred repeatedly to "the goods...
...Even Mr. Smith's plan of personal liberty and States' rights and State local option while perfectly sound Democratic doctrine is not in line with modern thought in sumptuary legislation. The people of the United States have passed the strictly States' rights construction period and there have always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess...
...hardly conceivable that our progressive and essentially moral people will go back to a condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...
...that the electorate has been agitated to a state of anticipation, if not of excitement, by the prospective election of the 31st President, how might shrewd crooks make gain without accepting direct graft...
...time when citizens who want to vote, especially citizens who have never voted before, begin to wonder when and where they must register in order to vote in the Presidential election in November. Following is a list, State by State, date by date, showing where registration closes comparatively early. (In States not listed, voters may register up to the week before Election Day, or be sworn in at the polls on Nov. 6, or qualify by producing tax receipts...