Word: democratism
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...White House that the President would make no speeches in the interest of any candidates for election next fall, except that he might go to Massachusetts to aid Senator Butler, his close friend and political associate, who faces a stiff contest with onetime Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat), who was unseated by Mr. Gillett two years...
...limit to their talk. Every now and then he still speaks of that limitation, but the whole incident seems in a fair way of being forgotten. You see that man with the iron grey hair and iron jaw-rather a fine figure -that is Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements. He is one of the fiercest attackers of prohibition. You see that...
...What this Government needs is a political upheaval to sweep away the dead wood. I do not hesitate to ask my party associates what the Democratic party is here for? To join in these nefarious schemes? To unite with Mellon in all his demands? A few days ago my secretary (Hicklin Yates) defined a Democrat as one who worships at the shrine of Woodrow Wilson and votes with Andrew Mellon. The Republicans at least have a policy?even though it is a buccaneering expedition...
...Democratic Senators Robinson (titular leader), Harrison (star rhetorician), Edwards (wet campaigner) judged that in a recent contest* Dr. M. D. Taylor, county health officer of Aztec, N. M., had written the best definition of a Democrat: "A Democrat is one who believes in the fullest freedom of speech, press and religion, and separation of church and state; laws that bear equally upon all classes, without special privilege or monopolistic advantages; rights of States guaranteed by the Constitution, and less national paternalism...
...Princeton University, "Dick" Cleveland figured as campus critic, as reformer. Ardent Wilson Democrat, he followed in his hero's footsteps by attacking the upperclass-men's club system. He associated himself with the so-called "great unwashed" (the socially unassimilated element of the student body) and refused the many club invitations that were addressed to him by virtue of his personality, attainments and appearance, which was quite the reverse of "unwashed," he being a tall blond shot-putter cast in a noble mold. After the failure of his "revolution" he contented himself with a running public commentary on life...