Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Today's work was brought to a close today with the passage whereby southern state delegates, unless they represent at least 750 Republican voters from congressional districts, will be excluded from the convention.
A factor in the convention is the liberal group. It looks to me at present as though those delegates are likely to unite behind Hughes rather than Hoover. Hoover seems to have little chance.
The Old Guard is still in the saddle--so the word comes from Chicago--and with it comes the prediction that not Wood, not Johnson, not Lowden will be the choice of the Republican party, but that some other will be selected by the convention. In other words it may...
What takes place on the floor of the Convention Hall from now on will be mere puppet-play, actuated by the wire-pulling from behind the scenes. Stirring puppet-play it will be; the Old Guard, divided against itself, making what may prove to be its last stand in a...
And this after forty-eight expensive, meaningless primaries--the most expensive certainly, and perhaps the most meaningless that has ever been held in this country. If the convention results as it now seems likely to, in the nomination of a comparatively unheralded candidate, to what purpose will money have been...