The Republican journal., 1921-01-06
DOMESTIC


election year, politics held the atten-
ton of the people of the United States
during the greater part of the year
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio
was nominated for President by the
Republicans at Chicago June u. The
Democratic national convention at
San Francisco nominated Governor
James NJ. Cox of Ohio on July on
the forty-fourth ballot.
In the election on November 2. the
Republican national ticket was elected
by an overwhelming majority, receiv-
ing 414 electoral votes while the Demo-
cratic candidates received III. The
Republicans also won an OVerWhelm-
ing majority in congress-
BY winning their long fight for
equal suffrage the women of the coun-
try gained the right to vote for all
offices in the November election.
The United States Supreme court
on January upheld the constitution
ality of wartime prohibition and the
Volstead enforcement act. On Janu-
airy 16 nationwide prohibition under
the eighteenth amendment to the Con-
stitutiOn, went into effect.
On January 10 the New York as
sembly, with but two dissenting voices
voted to exclude the five Socialist
members of that body, pending trial
on charges that the platform of their
party is revolutionary
The anti-radical campaign resulted
in the indictment Of SO leaders of the
Communist Labor party in Chicago
on January p.
The railroads of the country were
returned to private operation on
March 1, under the terms of the Cum
minS-Esch railroad reorganization act.
Senator Truman II. Newberry of
Michigan was convicted in the federal
court at Grand Rapids on March 20
on charges involving the use of excess
siVe campaign funds. He and 16 CO.
defendants We're given prison sen
fences, but remained at liberty pending
an appeal to the higher courts,
The trial of the five Socialist mem
bers of the New York assembly ended
with their expulsion from the legisla-
ture April 1.
Several suits had been instituted
during the early months of the year
attacking the validity of the eight
zenith (prohibition) amendment. All
these cases were taken to the United
States Supreme court and on June Z
had t,tf nj r.
ment and tie VoIsteaG enforcement,
act were constitutional.
Big increases in rates were granted
the railroads of the country by the
interstate commerce commission july
81 to enable the roads to meet in
creased wages. Passenger rates We're
increased 20 per cent, with Pullman
Surcharge Of so per cent for the rail
roads Freight rates were increased
from % to 40 per cent in different sec
lions Of the country.
The trial of the Communist Labor
party leaders in Chicago in progress
Tor several months, ended August .
with the conviction of 20, who were
given Jail sentences.
The five Socialist assemblymen eX
PEELED from the New York legislature
in the spring. having been reelected.
were again unseated when the legis-
lature met in special session Septem-
Der q.
Sharp drops in the prices of cotton.
wheat and other farm products
brought appeals for assistance from
the farmers of the country during the
latter part of the year. Night riders
appeared in southern states in an eff
fort to force the growers to hold their
cotton for higher price and a move
ment was started to secure the holding
of wheat from the market.