Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear that the Democrats had discovered the simplest method yet of disfranchising Negroes. Certificates from Democratic primaries in the South are virtually the same as election certificates, so ubiquitously preponderant is the party. Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from the polls by a State law. But Negroes had this...
...They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia and Arkansas, and "possibly" Virginia and Texas. They said the border-states of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma would surely be Anti-Smith. They planned mass meetings, advertised for funds, pledged themselves to elect Democratic Congressmen but to defeat the Democratic national ticket. Asked if the Anti-Smith Democrats would accept Republican moneys (see p. 6), Bishop Cannon said: "Certainly. I never look a gift horse in the mouth." They disguised their antipathy for Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism in a "platform" attacking him only...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
Manufacturer Irenée du Pont of Delaware said last week: "I have always voted the straight Republican ticket, and I am still hoping that something may yet happen between now and the Presidential election which will allow me to vote that ticket again, conscientiously, this year. But then, I always have been of an optimistic disposition." Mr. du Font's worries -Prohibition, corruption, lawbreaking...
...revolutionist with Venizelos, dissolved Parliament and then signed a decree so altering the electoral law that the Venizelists, who would probably have won the next election, are now assured a sweeping victory. The decree provides among other things that no Jew may stand for election except on the "Jewish Ticket" which will have to be created for that purpose...