Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest administration of school affairs in the recent past...
...United States broke away from Great Britain before a cabinet government had been developed there. Australia, on being given by Great Britain the rights of local control, adopted the cabinet system, of which the salient features are: a good representative system, a good civil government, honest elections, and good maintenance of executive order...
France has had a short experience in self-government and the sharp religious divisions of the country have hampered its rulers. At present there are a good representative system, honest elections on the whole and a fair judiciary, but the government is too centralized and still has a certain element of instability...
...essentials of a free government are a highly intelligent and watchful people, a system for making the government truly representative of the popular will, honest elections, adequate inducement to make capable men offer themselves for the government of the nation, and a method a fixing responsibility. To this should be added an honest and independent judiciary, an adequate system of checks and balances, a capable and upright civil service, and provisions for the stability of the government...
...hard, it is interesting, and the best of training. Even after this work is done, it remains to see that all men who have registered, should actually vote, and to watch the count of the vote after it has been cast in order to make sure that it is honest. Mr. Cosby then described the career of several well-known New York politicians and showed that such men can be defeated only by the increasing efforts of upright men. The help of all honest men is needed in politics when public life has become so degraded that it is necessary...