Word: democratism
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...reading books on municipal government. Last winter, after living in Jersey City for ten years, Mr. Burkitt arose as a giant of the people. He contributed a series of letters to the Jersey Journal on the subjects of city bonds and citizens' taxes. He signed himself "The Jeffersonian Democrat" and soon became a noted public character. When he called for a mass meeting, 1,500 citizens turned out. Then he began attending sessions of the Jersey City Commission, over which Mayor Hague presides...
...exultation to make the following statement: "There is not much doubt about it. The next President of the United States, if a Republican, will be a fraternity man unless Herbert Hoover is elected." To this prophecy, lame enough in its omission of the two leading candidates for the Presidency (Democrat Smith and Republican Hoover), Editor Cleveland added the following: "Herbert Hoover is non-fraternity and anti-fraternity. Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. There he met and courted Lou Henry, now Mrs. Hoover. It is alleged that her sorority...
...evils of Reconstruction in New Orleans, driving out the northern Republicans and their Negro tools. Major General Behan was elected Mayor of New Orleans in 1882 and, having rid his city of the Carpet-Bag type of Negro officeholder, continued to be a doughty Democrat until...
Senator Walsh, of Montana, is not, it is to be feared, a very staunch Democrat. Merely because Governor Smith rolled up a few thousand more votes in the California primaries than he did, the Senator has withdrawn from the presidential race. He does not seem to realize that unless he becomes quite accustomed to defeat he can be no true follower of William Jennings Bryan, who was not discouraged after four attempts at the presidency. Indeed, the recent triumphs of Harding "normalcy" and Coolidge economy have made the Democratic donkey drink very deeply of the bitter waters, and for Senator...
...Watched Cyrus Locher, Ohio Democrat sworn in to succeed the late Frank Bartlette Willis, Republican. (On his third day in the Senate, Senator Locher was invited to preside in the absence of Vice President Dawes. He acquitted himself ably as a Parliamentarian, in the little he had to do during one of Senator Blease's interminable speeches...