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...citizens are apt to forget that even at the end of the Revolutionary War nearly one-third of the population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they...
President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...insuring his defeat by separating the candidate from his platform. "This would so antagonize the western states already suspicious of the supposed Republican alliance with big business", said Professor Carver", that it would be fatal to the Republican party. This same mistake was made by the Whig Party in 1852", he continued, "when it permitted the Southern Whigs to write the platform and the Northern Whigs to name the candidate. It destroyed the Whig Party. It was not a 'howling' success in 1928, when the Democratic Party ran a wet candidate on a dry platform, and it will...
...election beanstalk had sprouted as none in Britain ever sprouted before. Century ago in the reign of King William IV there was something remotely like it. In 1831 the Second Earl Grey, Prime Minister, returned to Parliament with 370 Whig seats, the record party victory for all time until 1931. Last week the National Government of James Ramsay MacDonald returned supported by 476 Conservatives, 66 National Liberals, 13 National Laborites (including the Prime Minister) and 2 Independents. Total: the National Government holds the prodigious total of 557 seats in a House! of Commons of 615. Such miracles used to happen...
...finishing William Lynch's book several extremely vital and speculative questions are apt to arise in the mind of the reader. In the party battles it often appears that a strong, popular opposition, such as the Whig-Jacksonians under President Adams are forced to wait a four year term before it can come into power, acting in the meanwhile as a hindrance to the passage of important legislation. The situation is in marked contrast to the system employed in Great Britain and is as much a problem in our Constitution as it ever was. Much material for speculation is likewise...