DCHP-3

Grit(t)ism

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Hist.

the principles and policies of the Clear Grits; the platform of the Clear Grit Party.

Quotations

1858
The charge of "Gritism" or "Brownism," I thought nothing of, just as I had made up my mind to disregard any and every other party name as only embarrassing.
1884
If their howling be analyzed it will be found to consist of Mischief 24, Grittism, 65, Wind 10, Patriotism 1.
1908
From the early days of Ontario Gritism I had . . . urged the adoption of the ballot. . . .
1935
In Toronto the Grit movement found an incomparable leader with an incomparable organ through which the gospel of Grittism might be preached--George Brown and his Globe.