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The Democrats lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though its effects were soon overwhelmed by the changes in trade caused by World War I. Wilson proved especially effective in mobilizing public opinion behind tariff changes by denouncing corporate lobbyists, addressing Congress in person in highly dramatic fashion, and staging an elaborate ceremony when he signed the bill into law.
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President Ronald Reagan's economic policies lowered tax rates and increased military spending, while congressional Democrats blocked attempts to reverse spending on social programs.
After the election of his close associate Fidel V. Ramos as President in 1992, Manglapus lowered his political profile, while retaining powerful positions such as chairman of the Philippine National Oil Company and the Lakas-National Union of Christian Democrats ( NUCD ), Ramos ' political party.
Democrats and tariffs
American trade policy relied on high tariffs under the Republicans, and reciprocal trade agreements under the Democrats, but in any case exports were at very low levels in the 1930s.
Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans.
Instead, he cast his ballot for John M. Palmer, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, or Gold Democrats, a short-lived party that supported a gold standard, low tariffs, and limited government.
There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones.
After the Civil War, Democrats were generally the party of trade liberalization, while Republicans were generally for higher tariffs.
Democrats skeptical of reducing tariffs during the Depression included Representative Henry Rainey ( D-IL ) and members of Roosevelt ’ s own administration – Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle.
The DVP platform promoted Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsides and hostility to " Marxism " ( that is, the Communists, and also the Social Democrats ).
Its platform stressed Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsides and hostility to " Marxism " ( that is, the Communists, and also the Social Democrats ).
The South had resisted policies such as tariffs to promote industry and homestead laws to promote farming because slavery would not benefit ; with the South gone, and Northern Democrats very weak in Congress, the Republicans enacted their legislation.
Like most Southern Democrats of the day, he was a proponent of coining silver and an opponent of high tariffs ; unlike them, he refused to use race-baiting to build political popularity.
The Bourbon Democrats supported a free market policy, with low tariffs, low taxes, less spending and, in general, a Laissez-Faire ( hands-off ) government.
Chase, a former Democrat, had alienated many of the former Whigs by his coalition with the Democrats in the late 1840s, had opposed tariffs demanded by Pennsylvania, and critically, had opposition from his own delegation from Ohio.
The Democrats, with the support of farmers and laborers, wanted to lower tariffs in order to promote free trade, while the Republicans, backed by industry and big business, believed that higher tariffs were necessary to protect American manufacturing.
Many of these Republican pickups were in the industrializing Midwest states, where the debate over tariffs, which were advocated by Republicans to protect domestic industry but opposed by Democrats to allow for free agricultural trade, lead to political change.
In this sense, the conservative element of the Democratic party was led by the Bourbon Democrats and their hero President Grover Cleveland, who fought against high tariffs and on behalf of the gold standard.
Democrats and with
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
The Free Democrats ( 12 per cent of the vote ) believe a nuclear war can be avoided by negotiating with the Soviet Union, and more dealings with the Communist bloc.
In a tense, closed-door session with Judge Smith, Rayburn attempted to work out a compromise: to add three new members to the Rules Committee ( two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican ).
An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.
Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.
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.
In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.
The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.
However, when Bush compromised with Democrats to try to lower Federal deficits, he reneged on his promise not to raise taxes, hurting his approval rating.
When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.
The bill passed the house with 234 votes against 200 opposed ( 132 Republicans and 102 Democrats voting in favor ; 156 Democrats, 43 Republicans, and 1 independent against ).
The final vote was generally along party lines, with no Democrats voting guilty, and only a handful of Republicans voting not guilty.
All of the 3 main parties saw their total votes fall, with Labour's total vote dropping by 2. 8 million on 1997, the Conservatives 1. 3 million, and the Liberal Democrats 428, 000.
During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.
Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.
As was the case with the Liberal Party for most of the 20th century, the Liberal Democrats face constant questioning about which of the other two parties they are closer to, in particular about which they would support in the event of a hung parliament.
A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft ( formerly Liberal MP for Leeds West ) and Paul Wiggin ( who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal ), continued under the old name of " the Liberal Party ".
After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.
He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.
After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.
Democrats and Underwood
His main support in this election came from a group of conservative Democrats known as " Democrats for Underwood " who opposed Charlotte Pritt, who had run a write-in campaign against then-governor Gaston Caperton four years earlier, and had won a multi-candidate primary in this election cycle.
Democrats and Tariff
Calhoun had been assured that the northeastern interests would reject the Tariff of 1828, exposing New England ( pro-Adams ) congressmen to charges that they selfishly opposed legislation popular among Jacksonian Democrats in the west and Mid-Atlantic States.
The Walker Tariff was enacted by the Democrats, and made substantial cuts in the high rates of the " Black Tariff " of 1842, enacted by the Whigs.
Democrats and 1913
Following the resignation for health reasons of President pro tempore William P. Frye, a Senate divided among progressive Republicans, conservative Republicans, and Democrats reached a compromise by which each of their candidates would rotate holding the office from 1911 to 1913 ( see Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate, 1911-1913 ).
Moberg had become a member of a young Social Democrats club in 1913.
When the Democrats reclaimed the majority in the next election, he was elected Speaker for the 1913 session.
In 1891, Calonder was elected to the Grisons ' cantonal legislative ( cussegl grond ) where he represented the Free Democrats, and kept his mandate until 1913.
In 1913 the Social Liberal Party and the Social Democrats got a majority in the lower house and Zahle was able to form a government backed by the Social Democrats.
Between 1913 and 1925, only five Democrats had managed to get elected to the council.
Adding to the growing tensions between the Congressional Union and NAWSA, Burns made a radical proposal once again at the 1913 NAWSA convention in Washington, D. C. Because Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress at the time, Burns wanted to give them an ultimatum — support our bill for suffrage or we will make sure you don ’ t get reelected.
Craddick ( 1913 – 1986 ), warned him: " Texas is run by Democrats.
In 1913, they were joined by the Liberals, in 1945 the Social Democrats and in 2004 the Greens.
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