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Free & Easy. In any era, the black-bearded Rhineland revolutionary and the squeaky-voiced Whig editor would have made improbable bedfellows. The Tribune, as Hale explains, was a "great New York family newspaper dedicated to the support of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, temperance, dietary reform, Going West and ultimately, Abraham Lincoln." Marx, arrogant, embittered, exiled from his native Germany, was dedicated to the overthrow of 19th century capitalism...
...Roorback: A defamatory falsehood published for political effect-Webster's. The word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...
...philosophies behind the candidates, said Beer, are the basic issues in this campaign. Eisenhower represents "the typical Whig candidate who firmly believes that the role of the President is to be an executive and no more...
...matter whom we elect as President, Palamountain said that there is an important difference in the two parties' interpretations of the Presidency. He conceded that the men who make the policies in many government offices remain the same regardless of the existing administration, but asserted that Eisenhower has a "Whig" view that Congress is an equal and co-ordinate arm of the Government. Recent Democratic presidents have followed the policy that the Chief Executive is the "Voice of the people" whose business it is to tell Congress what to do, rather than merely to make suggestions, he pointed...
...Crimson article pointed out, few at Princeton did not find Whig-Cilo's initial irresponsibility unfortunate. The Princeton administration and Trustees showed courage in asserting confidence that undergraduates ultimately have sufficient responsibility to allow them to make mistakes. The principle of academic freedom demanded non-interference.)--Editor...