Word: democratism
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...unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow Senator from Nebraska, (1911-23) was his most cherished foe. But year by year his fire died down as he found the institutions he fought as impregnably intrenched as ever. In 1923, Senator Hitchcock, defeated, retired; Senator Norris, robbed of both foe and issues yearned for a quiet...
...voters swarmed about the polls. Police squads in cars, armed with rifles and machine guns patrolled the streets; state militia stood ready to answer riot calls. It seemed probable that onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, would again be elected Mayor; but followers of William E. Dever, Democrat, present mayor, were full of hope. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Independent, also...
...which Governor Smith might, without legerdemain, draw is Massachusetts. Calvin Coolidge once governed it; but it has Wets, Catholics, immigrants; it sent last fall Catholic-Democrat David Ignatius Walsh to the Senate. Give its 18 votes to Smith, Smith's total becomes 262. Looking for 4 more votes, Governor Smith must cast his eyes far into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes...
...Muncie, Ind. The reason, which the senate decided was good, sufficient and constitutional, was that one of the quarrelers, a circuit court judge named Clarence W. Dearth, appeared to have committed acts for which he deserved impeachment. That the other quarreler, Editor George R. Dale of the Muncie Post-Democrat (weekly) was a fugitive from Judge Dearth's justice, across the state line in Ohio, lent color to a case which, originating as a question of freedom of the press, had ramified, as the press had intended it should, into a question of curruption in high office. . For three...
...Editor Dale that the reason Judge Dearth's daughter ran away from home might be, not mental derangement, but moral. The girl was later found dead in a river. But Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House of Representatives to prosecute Judge Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that...