Word: governors
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When Lord Delaware, the newly appointed governor, arrived in 1610, he found affairs in a wretched condition, due to three causes: The lack of a strong government: the communistic system; and the general bad character of the people. Improvement began at once, although it was necessarily slow. To provide the much-needed food Somers went with Argall to Bermuda. Somers himself died and his crew, disobeying his orders to return to Virginia, set sail for England. Argall, however, procured food from the Indians on the Potomac. In March, 1611, Delaware sailed for England, leaving George Percy in charge of affairs...
Introduction.The proposed amendments provide that the governor and other state officers and the members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, who are now elected annually, shall be elected for a term of two years, beginning with the election of 1898, i. e., at the same time as the election of Congressmen...
...vote in Massachusetts. (c) In representative biennial election states 80 per cent, and over vote. (E. H. Haskell, Biennial Elections, p. 13.) B. They are expensive. (1) $148,000 is spent on a single election. (Mr. Winn, Boston Traveller, Feb. 13.) C. They tend to inefficiency in governement. (1) Governor is hindered in performance of his duties. (2) The Legislature requires too long sessions. (a) The average session is longer than the average of Congress or Parliament. (3) They lead to incompetence in legislation. (a) Committees waste time. (b) In 1894 93 acts of previous sessions were amended or repealed...
...upon Massachusetts politics solely from the the point of view of national party supremacy. (Speech of E. E. Hale, Oct. 23, 1896). (a) State elections are thus made subordinate to national. (x) Elections will be on national issues. (y) Offices will be filled with reference to national politics: Examples, Governor Powers, notorious for his acquirement of State lands for a nominal sum, owes his election to national issues; In 1888 in N. Y. Republicans voted for Governor Hill [Democratic] in return for Democratic votes for Harrison. (B) Biennial elections will make executive less effective. (1) Re-election of governor less...
...take place in Boston next Monday night, will be the only parade made up exclusively of college men. Divisions from Williams, Technology, Worcester Tech., Brown, Boston University and Tufts will probably take part. The Boston police department will furnish a squad of mounted officers, who will lead the parade. Governor Wolcott, Mayor Quincy and others have been asked to review the demonstration...