By contrast, "standpatters" — a term Smidt borrowed from political scientist V.O. Key for people who vote for the same party year after year — swelled in numbers over that period.
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But because they failed they have less of a record to answer for, and so unlike Democrats defending the then-unpopular Obamacare amid a bad economy in 2010, G.O.P. candidates in 2018 will probably be running as standpatters amid low unemployment.
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Durley wrote two novels, My Soldier Lady and The Standpatters. She was also a convincing public speaker; her lectures on Margaret Fuller and on her travels were very successful.
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One group, including Charles Curtis, joined the machine faction and together became known as the "standpatters" or "regulars." The other group became the progressives, strong supporters of President Roosevelt, often called Square Dealers and included future Governors Edward Hoch and Walter Stubbs, U.S. Senator Joseph Bristow, Congressmen Edmond Madison and Victor Murdock, and journalists like William Allen White. In the 1908 and 1910 elections, the Progressives and Standpatters intensely competed for power and election issues become more intertwined with national politics. The primary election process, first used in 1908, allowed progressives to take over, ousting U.S. Senator Chester Long in 1908, and defeating four standpatter congressmen in the 1910 primary elections.
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Governors of influence: Cummins and Hughes — Progressive governors from different eras, parties, Iowa History Journal However, he gradually turned more conservative moving from La Follette's Progressivism to the New Era Republicanism of Warren G. Harding. In the 1890s, he led the Iowa Republican Party's progressive wing, or the so-called insurgents, to power at the expense of its old guard of conservative standpatters,Note: The term standpatters is attributed to Mark Hanna, who used poker slang to stand pat to describe wait-and-see Republican electoral strategy. who had controlled the party almost since its inception. After his postwar withdrawal from the progressive movement and shortly before his death, Cummins was defeated by a progressive contender within his own party.
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He also owned two farms near Pella."Cyrenus Cole disposes of stock in R-T," Cedar Rapids Tribune, 1913-08-08 at p.1. While serving as editor, Cole was very active in one of the two factions of the Iowa Republican Party — known as the "stand- patters," a more conservative alternative to the party's progressive wing."Deny that Perkins will quit the race: Score of Standpatters in Town for Conference," Des Moines Daily News, 1906-04-17 at 2.
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The rivalry became so intense that in the 1912 election, Progressives and Standpatters split over presidential electors and the Republican candidates were swept from power by the democrats. In 1913, some progressives, including William Allen White, Henry Allen, and Victor Murdock formed a separate Progressive Party. Other progressives like U.S. Senator Joseph Bristow and future Goveronor and U.S. Senator Arthur Capper refuse to break with the Republican Party. In the 1914 election the Progressive candidates lost across the board to Republican candidates who returned to power throughout Kansas.
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The Progressive National Baptist Convention formed in 1961 after civil-rights-oriented Baptist ministers, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. failed to replace Joseph H. Jackson, the long-time head of the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA). The older group stood aloof from the Civil Rights Movement which was often led by local Baptist ministers; the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA) often preached spiritual salvation rather than political activism. The dissidents nominated Gardner C. Taylor as president of the NBC USA. After an hour-long fist fight between reformers and standpatters, in which one elderly minister was accidentally killed, Jackson's supporters won.
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