Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present system of voting is inadequate: some change is necessary to prevent corruption and intimidation. N. A. Rev. 143: 628; Labor's Encyclopedia Art "Ballot"; Reports of contested election cases for past ten years in U. S. Documents; Public Opinion, December...
...would promote the welfare of the country by carrying out its principles of (a) a respectable foreign policy; (b) the suppression of Mormonism; (c) a free ballot and an honest count. References: The Philadelphia Press, Jan. 4, 1888; Stanwood's Presidential Elections; "Platform Promises," 1864-1884 (MS. pamphlet...
...prevents the education of the Negro by the ballot.-No. Am. Review, 1879, pp. 227, 231-233. (b) It is contrary to the spirit of American institutions.-"An Appeal to Caesar," pp. 21-36. (c) It will result in the formation of a "Black party." - "An Appeal to Caesar...
...existing safeguards to a free ballot are insufficient, they should be increased by a constitutional amendment.-Popular Science Monthly...
...open ballot was then taken on the merits of the principal disputants, and resulted in 9 votes for the affirmative and 43 for the affirmative...