Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Storey then selecting representative States of the East and West, where an election for governor is to take place this fall, illustrated with an imaginary independent voter the influence which the local virtues or sins of either party should have upon the independent's vote. In Ohio and Pennsylvania he should oppose the McKinly and Quay rings, in Maryland and New York Gorman and Tammany should be overthrown...
...city of Boston about one-hundredth of what would have to be spent on a new foundation. President Eliot suggested that the scholarships be given to competent students, and that they be allowed to pursue their higher education in whatever university they pleased. If it was necessary to give local scholarships, let them extend to the limits of the state...
...stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept...
...Democratic policy on State is sues is for the best interests of the people of Massachusetts. - (a) on the liquor question. - (b) On the public schools. (c) Against the poll-tax qualification; Manhood Suffrage by Hon. C. T. Russell. - (d) Principle of local self-government. - (e) Discouragement of trusts' - (f) - Ballot reform supported...
...summer School of the Boston Local Board of the American Institute of Sacred Literature will be held in the buildings of the Episcopal Theological School, Brattle St., from June 22 to July...