Word: democratism
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...name again, this time into the ear of President-Elect Hoover, this time for Attorney General. Thus did Mr. Hoover "discover" Mr. Mitchell. They agreed on Prohibition and its enforcement by the Department of Justice. Mr. Mitchell's appointment as Attorney General followed. He listed himself an "independent Democrat" but he had voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924, Hoover...
...might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed out, no Tribune stock belongs to her. Even so, Chicagoans were surprised at the coolness of Brother-in-law Robert's potent paper...
...Regular Republicans did not want La Follette on their committee was plain. The Finance Committee is com posed of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats. Among the Republicans is Michigan's Couzens, prime foe of Secretary Mellon. If Senator La Follette and Couzens join with Democrat members in opposing the Administration's fiscal poli cies, which is altogether likely, the Regular Republican majority will be overthrown by one vote. Well aware of this fact were the Insurgent Republicans in urging Sena tor La Follette for the Committee...
Combat began when Democrat Ransdell leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...
Facing his accusers, the "Grand old Democrat" began by proudly confessing to the treasonable charge against him- that he had indeed come from France to Valencia in a leaky old tramp steamer for the sole purpose of leading an insurrection against the present Government of Spain. Whole volumes of typically Spanish controversy have arisen as to whether Revolutionist Sanchez Guerra was received by the Captain General of Valencia "with a closed door"-i.e. whether the highest military official of the province was himself ready to become a party to the revolution...