Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eminently unfair and unreasoning. He makes three statements the truth of which I cannot for a moment admit, and from them draws a conclusion which is not only illogical but is also a insult to the intelligence of the majority of men who voted in the recent straw ballot...
...Lazarus finds in the recent balloting in the University for Hughes a "strange distinction" from the results throughout the country. If Mr. 'Lazarus had followed with even the most cursory eye the results of other straw ballots held in colleges and by journals throughout the country, he would have been not so ready to state universally that all results had been in favor of Wilson. Results have varied with the section of the country, pretty much as those who are somewhat wiser than your correspondent of yesterday realize they must vary when the final test comes. No all-embracing Wilson...
...these three premises Mr. Lazarus builds, like an edifice of straw or a house of sand, the conclusion that "Harvard University, judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history." These the premises! This the conclusion...
...matter of Hughes vs. Wilson, the following facts are conspicuous: (1) the overwhelming majority in our straw vote for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes; (2) the expressions of admiration for Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth...
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 18, 1916.--Charles Evans Hughes secured a plurality of 138 votes over Woodrow Wilson in the straw ballot presidential election conducted here today by the Princetonian...