Word: partisans
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...that failure Mr. Hoover speaks with an intimate knowledge and a lack of partisan heat that cannot fail to persuade. His review is detailed and overwhelming and points a moral for the future that is inescapable. The failure of Democratic leadership--"disintegration," Mr. Hoover well calls the present status of Mr. Wilson's Administration--necessitates that "the responsibilities of government be transferred." That is the single issue of the campaign in the Tribune's view, and Mr. Hoover has done a service to the country in stating the facts with such inevitable logic...
...issue at the election this fall is vitally important, and it will be a costly disaster if the Republicans are allowed to win, after their unidealistic and partisan conduct since the armistice...
Liberals and progressives of Harvard, now is the time to work for the election of Cox and Roosevelt, and so silence Ledge and the rest of his partisan knockers. FRANK O. HOLMES...
...detail the consular service. It is even today on a much more solid footing than our diplomatic service. The salary range, as I have said, is much higher. The positions from the highest to the lowest have, since President Roosevelt's day, been filled entirely without regard to partisan or political considerations. And a first-rate consul can ordinarily stay in the service, gradually moving up, as long as he likes...
...convinced that this good is best promoted by a certain cause or a particular party, and as time goes on this becomes so fixed in his mind that he is ready to sacrifice almost anything for its benefit. He loses his sense of proportion, and becomes a blind partisan. This is perhaps the chief cause of the evils in public life...