As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.

He brought with him other former Republicans and practically all of Muñoz-Rivera's Federalists into a party that was to bring about the union of all political groups.

He was successful, they won the elections of 1904 and all subsequent elections until the 20's, when another defection of Republicans allowed for the creation of yet another party bringing into it persons supporting a status change.

The Union Party quickly gained the attention of the colonial governors, all Republicans, who were willing to work closely with them because of their control of the House of Delegates.

Most Irish Nationalists and Irish Republicans claim all of Northern Ireland and are not particularly interested in new borders.

As president he led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery ; he effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871.

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

He stated that " the death of both parties is all but certain ; the Democrats, because every idea they have brought forward in the past 12 years is dead ; and the Republicans, because its ideas have been realized.

The seven delegations controlled by Republicans all voted for Jefferson, and Georgia's sole Federalist representative also voted for him, giving him eight states.

These bills were not yet supported by all northern Republicans.

" Roosevelt himself did not have a clear idea of the New Deal at this point, so he promised no specific programs and tried to appeal to practically all groups of voters, even Republicans.

His support of giving all aid to the British " short of declaring war " won him the support of many Republicans on the East Coast, who disagreed with their party's isolationist leaders in Congress.

Most importantly, he began to build support among media elites, who appreciated his articulateness, straightforward manner, moderate positions, and his refusal to walk down the conservative path that all of the other Republicans were traveling.

( That being said, in all other positions up for office that year, Republicans — including all congressional and state legislature representatives — still won.

Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures, except for Virginia.

On the one hand, they were pressured by Republicans to boycott all sales to the Dutch ; on the other hand, Dutch police could be merciless in their efforts to stamp out smugglers on which the Republican economy depended.

However, neo-Gaullists have since rallied economic liberalism, with the result that modern French conservatives — such as the UMP, or before that the RPR, the UDF or the Independent Republicans — all supported economic liberalism.

) Another claimed that the Hampshire did not strike a mine at all, but was sunk by explosives secreted in the vessel by Irish Republicans.

This region was heavily Republican — in fact, Republicans had represented this district for all but four years since 1859, and was one of the few regions in the former Confederacy where Republicans won on a regular basis.

These voting blocs together formed a majority of voters and handed the Democratic Party seven victories out of nine presidential elections ( 1932 – 36-40-48, 1960, 1964 ), as well as control of both houses of Congress during all but 4 years between the years 1932-1980 ( Republicans won small majorities in 1946 and 1952 ).

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason.

The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

Four female witnesses waited in the wings to reportedly support Hill's credibility, but they were not called, due to what the Los Angeles Times described as private, compromise deal between " aggressive, gloves-off " Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Democrat Joe Biden.

" and " Republicans are far more likely to say they are born-again ( 52 %) than Democrats ( 36 %) or independents ( 32 %).

As they had been shepherded to passage in the Virginia House of Delegates by John Taylor of Caroline, they became part of the heritage of the " Old Republicans ".

Her fellow Republicans were put in office by the " drys " and, even though they eagerly partook in consumption of alcoholic beverages at her parties, in public they presented themselves as opposing the repeal of prohibition, lest they be thrown out of office by the dry voting blocks.

MacGowan was already with The Nips, though when they broke up in 1980 he concentrated a bit more on Stacy's Millwall Chainsaws, who changed their name to The New Republicans.

The Radical Republicans used this clause as the basis in 1867 for abolishing the ex-Confederate regimes, putting the states under Army rule, and deciding when they were to be readmitted to Congress.

The followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the name " Republicans "; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

Republicans were deeply committed to the principles of republicanism, which they feared were threatened by the supposed monarchical tendencies of the Hamiltonians / Federalists.

The Republicans distrusted Hamilton's national bank and rejected his premise that a national debt was good for the country ; Republicans said they were both forms of corruption.

At the same time, in the Senate, while the Republicans retained their majority, they lost 8 seats.

Republicans had long claimed that the only legitimate Irish state was the Irish Republic declared in the Proclamation of the Republic of 1916, which they considered to be still in existence.

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

" As of 2006, it had 105 Democrats and 4 Republicans as co-sponsors.

To counter Cleveland's image of superior morality, Republicans discovered reports that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo, and chanted " Ma, Ma, where's my Pa ?".

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

Scallawag had a special meaning after the Civil War as an epithet for a white Southerner who willingly accepted the reforms by the Republicans.

Gergen stated that by 1996 the selection process had become so expensive, mean and personally invasive that it discouraged several top Republicans from running.

The plan had bipartisan support in Washington, where the Republicans controlled Congress and the Democrats controlled the White House.

Giuliani later said the switches were because he found Democratic policies " naïve ", and that " by the time I moved to Washington, the Republicans had come to make more sense to me ".

Roosevelt was attacking both the judiciary and the deep faith Republicans had in their judges ( most of whom had been appointed by McKinley, Roosevelt or Taft ).

Republicans believed Marshall's constitution was an attempt to win over Debs ' supporters, who had a strong presence in Indiana.

Republicans opposed the ratification process, and were infuriated that the Democrats were attempting to revise the entire constitution without calling a constitutional convention, as had been called for the state's two previous constitutions.

A report in The Guardian, however, suggested that American politics has been " stuck in a two-way fight between Republicans and Democrats " since the Civil War, and that third-party runs had little meaningful success.

The abolition of slavery had historically been associated with Republicans, but Henderson was one of the War Democrats.

Grant's curt response to Johnson in the Stanton matter increased his popularity with the Radical Republicans ; John Weiss Forney, editor of the Washington Daily Chronicle, who had paved the way for previous presidential nominations, took up the effort for Grant's nomination, by first inquiring with Rawlins about Grant's interest in the presidency.

In 1860, many former Whigs who had not joined the Republicans regrouped as the Constitutional Union Party, which nominated only a national ticket.

The Republicans wanted to maintain the 1777 alliance with France, which had overthrown the monarchy and aristocracy and become a republic.

Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.