Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The wise course for the Democrats is plain. They must in the first place, nominate a man of much greater weight and strength of character than the Republican candidate. Nine-tenths of popular confidence lies in personality; and the Democratic convention must make it its first care to select a...
Altogether, the Digest's returns of over a million and a half votes have been a feature of no little interest in the pre-convention weeks; and have been in some ways fully as illuminating as to the course of public sentiment as some of the lightly attended official primaries...
In nominating Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio as Republican candidate for the Presidency the Chicago Convention selected a man not of accomplishments but of possibilities. In spite of his rise from printer's devil to newspaper owner in spite of his honorable record as legislator, lieutenant-governor, and United...
As the CRIMSON a few days ago surmised would happen a "comparatively unheralded candidate" emerged victorious from the welter of the convention. In retrospect it is easy to see how carefully the "coup" was planned, how the popular favorites were played off against each other to the point of exhaustion...
With a platform which leaves untouched the Irish enigma, the liquor question, and the bonus problem, and which passes lightly over treaty ratification and equal suffrage for women, and with a ticket reminiscent of the tail that wagged the dog, the Republican Convention has more or less adroitly passed the...