Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson got 70 votes from the States of California, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Utah, Washington, West Virginia. Suppose Governor Smith should get none of these votes: subtract them from Wilson's total of 277, the result...
...word painting can fit the candidate. We must incarnate the philosophy of Jefferson and the invincible courage of Jackson. The same issues exist today as when Tilden, Cleveland and Wilson were elected. The tariff then as now was building up a privileged class, With the exception that today schedules are made in secret and our policy has caused European Governments to raise high walls against American manufacturers. Corruption then as now had driven men from Republican Cabinets, only then despoilers were pikers who lined their pockets with thousands, while in our day the booty has gone into millions. Privilege then...
...pristine vigor, gave Democrats a Cause and a Man. Texan, Dry, Protestant, he called on his party to nominate Governor Alfred E. Smith, New Yorker, Wet, Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against it and in favor of amending it for the same reasons that Wilson vetoed it. I don't want to question the motives of some of the prominent...
When Governor Smith takes out pencil and paper to cast up his chances, he probably begins by weighing his chances to get the votes which Woodrow Wilson got in 1916. Mr. Wilson needed 266 votes...
...Wilson failed to carry New York (45) and New Jersey (14), for both of which Governor Smith has a chance. Add 45 and 14 to 207: result 266: Governor Smith is elected without a vote to spare...