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...Congress. *Thomas Jefferson loomed in 1799 as the foe of Federalism, leader of Republicanism. Present day Virginians hail him as father of the Democracy...
...Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences attend him everywhere. Everywhere he was applauded by the Hearst press, which admires President Coolidge and wants Secretary Mellon to succeed him, but whose owner is Candidate Smith's implacable foe...
During speechmaking, the room was darkened and spotlights played on a life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
...Captain Stayton bowed to his chief foe. "The Anti-Saloon league is as afraid of a referendum as a woman is of a mouse...
Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat...