In New York State, republicans try to campaing on these worried, relating Hylan to jazz, liquor and Harlem.
Have they recruited any pastors who've been willing to describe the Democrats as the party whose antecedents have been rum, rhythm and rebellion?
NORTHERN AND EASTERN TIMES: SEPTEMBER 15, 1924
The Socialist grow
As Coolidge numbers fall as the scandals of the Harding/Coolidge cabinet continues, accusations by republicans to McAdoo try to change the trends. They want alineated progressive independients and republicans to vote for whoever over supporting McAdoo. We show you one of those pamphlets:
'Willy plays an unfair game. He tries to make people on Montana, Wisconsin, New York and other states that he runs only for economic reform. That's false. He isn't a new name, he is another member of the Wilson cabinet. In secret, he supports the pro-brittish internationalism of Wilson. His love of free trade means in practice support of brittish merchants.
Make no mistake, he only supports the interests of his old bank, merchant and southern farmer backers as usual. As always, a democrat victory means southern domination on the cabinet, lead by this man from Georgia.'
Speaking of bad campaigning, the Republican Party is going to lose this election. Rev. Burchard can give himself a pat on the back for being an effective Republican operator in comparison: he only smeared. This pamphlet is premised in its entirety on lies, misconceptions and omissions of fundamental party policy.
Firstly, they're trying to appeal to voters in three different states with no obvious connection between them. Even in modern day politics, you just don't try and identify issues of simultaneous concern only to "people on Montana, Wisconsin, New York and other states" - you campaign on a state-by-state basis or issue a generic national advert.
Secondly, they have no idea where they're going with this attack on free trade. The main concern wasn't that McAdoo was too friendly to the British - that attack line had been out of fashion for a good couple of decades. It was that tariff reductions paved the way for an income tax (and, I'd assume, would have supposedly harmed American industry as well).
Thirdly, they're going completely the wrong way with the attack on McAdoo himself. He was from
California, not Georgia. Nobody was denying "He isn't a new name," either - he was a close relative of President Wilson, his involvement in the Wilson Cabinet and surely the Teapot Dome scandal would have been well-known to voters. And if I was attacking him, I would certainly not give him the cutesy epithet of "Willy."
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