Word: democratism
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...hatred engendered by the war. Anyone who can even faintly remember the political campaigns of the post-war period with their turgid oratory and their violent editorials is aware that hatred of the South was the chief political asset of most successful candidates. The ferocious denunciation of every Democrat as a friend of rebels, the continued waving of the bloody shirt, the cartoons of Thomas H. Nast, the editorials of Petroleum V. Nasby all indicate as clearly as anything could that the reconstruction policy was actuated more by a desire to punish the South than by a desire to benefit...
...principal cruiser-wishers are Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, sponsor of the bill and chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, and Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Committee. A large part of the Senate agrees with them that the cruiser is essential for the protection of U. S. commerce, that the Navy's lack of cruisers should be rectified. Extremists in this group, making a fetish of navies, are rankled by British and Japanese cruiser preponderance. They demand a navy equal to any in the world, consider possible wars with England or Japan...
Thus, last week, spoke Alfred Emanuel Smith, over the radio to the nation. He used the same microphone tha had carried his last campaign speech, proved himself again a dominating, if retired, Democrat...
Colorado. "Too much talking has ruined politicians," says Colorado's newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority...
South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: "It certainly looks very...