Word: democratism
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...years later came his second chance. He was nominated for Senator, as a Democrat of course. Albert J. Beveridge had just defeated Senator Harry S. New for the Republican nomination. The disgruntlement of the New men helped to weaken Beveridge in the campaign and Ralston...
...editorial writer on a Cleveland paper for two years. He then served two terms as Secretary of State of Ohio, and in 1872 at 37 he was elected to Congress, served one term but was denied reelection. Until this time he had been a Republican, but he turned Democrat...
...member of the Court. Justice Brandeis has been called a radical. He is an admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities of the Court. Although a Democrat, after elevation to the Court he declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily...
...Sprague is Colonel A. A. Sprague, who is Commissioner of Public Works in Chicago. Formerly a Republican, he is now a Democrat and was the Democratic nominee for Senator last fall (being defeated by Mr. Deneen...
...freaks of the primary was the Democratic contest. William George Bruce, named by the Democratic state organization, lacked sufficient popular support, although he was unopposed on the ballot, and failed to poll 5% of the Democratic vote cast in Wisconsin at the last election. According to Wisconsin law a candidate must poll in the primaries at least 5% of his party's vote in the previous election. Bruce failed to do so. No other Demo-crat did. Consequently there will be no regular Democratic candidate in the election, although Bruce will run as an independent Democrat...