party-leaders

Are we indeed only fighting, as the party-leaders at the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

It would be a great mistake to gauge their effect by what they bring to pass in the minds of cabinet-officers, editors, and party-leaders: for they put into plain, stout language the growing instinct of the people to get at the cause of the war which lays them waste.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Houses of Congress, who had the virtue to defy the threats and cajolements of their party-leaders, when this great public crime was demanded at their hands, were sincere in the resistance they opposed to this subversion of all the principles in which they had been bred, and of which their party had always professed to be the special defence and guard.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Even Paine's coarse epithets, "Common Ruffian," "Royal Brute of Britain," and the like, which offended the taste of the leaders of the American party, -- for party-leaders were gentlemen in 1776, -- had as much weight with the rank-and-file as his arguments.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

Free disclosure to all Members of Parliament, and no preferential treatment of party-leaders, was their demand.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 Various

If the leaders of the opposition within the party are dangerous because they have a large following among the masses, and if they are at the same time few in number, the old party-leaders endeavour to hold them in check and to neutralize their influence by the conciliatory methods just described.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

The government and rebels against the government, kings and the party-leaders, tyrants by the grace of God and usurpers, rabid idealists and calculating self-seekers, all are "the people," and all declare that in their actions they merely fulfil the will of the nation.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

The young man had not long to look, for within a week after the beginning of the session these others showed themselves to his view, rising above the general level of mediocrity and timidity, party-leaders and chiefs of faction, men who were on their feet continually, speaking half-a-dozen times a day, freely and loudly.

In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907

The young man had not long to look, for within a week after the beginning of the session these others showed themselves to his view, rising above the general level of mediocrity and timidity, party-leaders and chiefs of factions, men who were on their feet continually, speaking half-a-dozen times a day, freely and loudly.

Mrs. Protheroe 1905

Each day that Peter lingered brought letter and telegraphic appeals to him from the party-leaders, over which Peter only laughed, and which he not infrequently failed even to answer.

The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894