Stalwart Nerd

Contemporary teachings about the Stalwart vs. Half-Breed feuds of the 1870s and 1880s usually contain glaring errors as they attempt to generalize the big picture. The portrayal of the Half-Breeds during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes as a clique of supporters of James G. Blaine is what standard textbooks provide, though it is anything but accurate. The historical record says something different, however. In "George Frisbie Hoar and the Half-Breed Republicans," Richard E. Welch, Jr., in part emphasizes the true characteristics of the Half-Breeds, in addition to their original comprisal among Republican Party ranks. He summarizes it well in p. 91: By the middle of the Hayes’s administration certain politicians were already representative of the goals and prejudices of Half-Breed Republicanism. Not James G. Blaine—who at this point represented a particular wing of the Stalwarts and became a Half-Breed only with the campaign of 1880—but men like Hayes, Hoar, George Edmund...

On April 4, 1952, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution enacting the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations. The committee was tasked to probe major foundations in the United States and publish a final report determining whether those groups carried out duties patriotic to the country, or if they made subversive moves. Chairman E. E. Cox (D–GA) The select committee was chaired by segregationist Democratic congressman Eugene E. Cox of Georgia, its namesake. It consisted of a 4–3 Democratic majority, although Cox's status as a member of the Conservative Coalition gave the committee a simultaneous conservative majority. Its three other Democratic members were: Brooks Hays of Arkansas Aime J. Forand of Rhode Island Donald L. O'Toole of New York The three Republican members were B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, Richard M. Simpson of Pennsylvania, and Angier L. Goodwin of Massachusetts. They were generally conservati...