Word: republican
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vice-president of the Constitutional Centennial Commission last year, and is, besides, the author of a history of the colonies, of biographies of Webster and Hamilton, and of several other works. He voted for Greely in 1872, and it was a surprise to many when he remained with the Republican party in 1884, and became chairman of the State Committee...
Great political enthusiasm is manifested this fall at Yale. Democratic, Republican and Prohibition clubs have been formed and each of these has organized a batallon. The greatest interest at present centres in the Democratic club. Its membership has increased more than eighty per cent over that of the last campaign. The battalion, under the name of the "Sumner Guards," contains about two hundred...
There is evidently a lack both of enthusiasm and funds at the headquarters of the rival democratic and republican state committees, as no final arrangements have been made by either party for a torchlight procession in Boston. It is no probable that either procession can take place before October...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...believed that the uniform will prove very satisfactory. The price of the uniform will be about $2.60, which will include the torches. Arrangements for the formation of the different classes have not yet been made, as the date of the procession has not been settled definitely by the Republican committee...