Crossword-Solution: SPELLBINDERS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Democracy's dark hints that the dominant party had been rent by factional strife were suddenly answered by an outrush of spellbinders from Republican headquarters, a flood of literature, and an astonishing display of active harmony.

The President was not a hero or a prophet; he was not even a philosopher; but a generously intentioned man, with many of the weaknesses of other human beings, and lacking that dominating intellectual equipment which would have been necessary to cope with the subtle and dangerous spellbinders whom a tremendous clash of forces and personalities had brought to the top as triumphant masters in the swift game of give and take, face to face in Council,--a game of which he had no experience at all.

From the herculean task accomplished by the Republican party last fall we have come to think of its members as men of deeds and not of words, except the spellbinders.

Also, Burbank and our corps of "spellbinders" had succeeded beyond my hopes in rousing partizan passion--but here again part of the credit belongs to Woodruff.

One of the spellbinders of ancient Greece, we are told, orated on the sands with his mouth filled with pebbles.