Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies of the administration. . . ." In presenting it, Representative Way, Democrat, said: "The State of Florida has been betrayed...
...Young could not so easily dissociate himself from the Hero's role. Men-in-the-street might ignore him but in Washington he was being closely eyed by many a potent fellow Democrat as a possible presidential nominee three years hence. Last fortnight the Democracy dined at the capital in the name of harmony. The orators mentioned no names as 1932 candidates but among the diners one name was persistently whispered back and forth-Owen D. Young. He had, all admitted, done a great thing at Paris-a thing which could surely be dramatized for use in party politics...
Parades, music, an elephant borrowed from the Sells-Floto Circus, six Lincoln voters riding on a float, speeches, made up the scheduled events. Unscheduled were the activities of a squad of Dry agents under a "Missouri Democrat" who operated through Ripon during the celebration. At the height of the party and before the eyes of Secretary Good and Governor Kohler, they descended upon a soft-drink place directly opposite Jubilee headquarters, found inside several Wisconsin legislators, eight barrels of beer. Incensed celebrants threatened public condemnation by the State Legislature of this harassment by U. S. agents...
...efforts to belittle the dinner and to emphasize party dissensions served to rally many a Democrat to its defense. Senators who had declined asked permission to attend. Bishop Cannon denied he had attempted to scare anybody away. The sight of chuckling Republicans aroused party pride. Leaders again bent themselves grimly to the task of harmony...
...Democrat hosts prepared to rededicate themselves anew to fairness and justice, the bustling Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...