Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wished to carry the parallel further he might well ask what there is to distinguish a Democrat like Attorney General Palmer from a Republican like Speaker Sweet of the New York Assembly. Both of them have set forth to establish a new doctrine of Prussianism which is a veritable crucifixion of the spirit of American institutions...
...spite of the Southern Prohibitionists and the reactionary practices of Attorney General Palmer and Postmaster General Burleson, the individual Democrat, who is a Democrat on principle, has not lost these characteristics. The instincts of the great mass of Democracy still tend to keep it a party of the common people, not in the sense of the demagogue, but in the sense of Thomas Jefferson. They are still struggling whenever the opportunity offers and a free play of Democratic sentiment is permitted by party organization against those centralizing tendencies that are turning the Government of the United States into an autocracy...
...Freshman Daniel come to judgment: "let every man, if he be a true American, take his stand with the party among whose leaders Governor Calvin Coolidge and Mayor Ole Hanson stand foremost." A Harvard Speaker Sweet! Those who are Democrats, or who are for the man and not for the party, must feel themselves out in the cold with the foolish virgins or over on Deer Island with the Reds. Perhaps, outcasts that we are, we may point out that party is a means and not an end; that the good American, the intelligent American, votes the Republican or Democratic...