Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640073170

The gentleman from Massachusetts seems to have just found out that Texas was a rebellious State and that it was his privilege to abuse her for joining the Southern Confederacy. Does he not know that when the South laid down her arms she did so in good faith. and that each State of the formner Con federacy sent her quota of volunteers to the SpanishAmerican War as readily as any of the Northern States? The Republican Party ruled this Nation for many years by waving the bloody shirt. and it has remained for the gentleman from Massaclusetts. who claims to be a Democrat. to continue to disgrace his party by digging up and raising aloft the old discredited bloody shirt and make it do service in the unholy crusade designed to leave the doors open for introducing into this country thousands of undesirable immigrants. I shall always fight and vote for stringent imuigration laws. notwithstanding the bowlers may howl. the growlers may growl. and the glhouls who delight in digging into the graves of the past may thereby continue to dig their own political graves as deep as their ghoulish instincts may dictate. It is only a few politicians who indulge in this nefarious practice.
Keywords matched
undesirable immigrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN STEPHENS
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640073170
Paragraph
#0
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