Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Experience shows that-a. If a party can be trusted with the government of the nation, it can be entrusted with the affairs of a city: Harvard Mo. Mar. 1889-b. Local independent movements have always been temporary and responsibility for misgovernment consequently lacking: Scrib. Mag. II 485.- c. Party supremacy in local affairs is necessary to supremacy in national affairs: Roosevelt...
...necessity of observing party lines in municipal elections exists for the following reason:- a. It is impossible to divide votes in one way for national elections and in another way for local elections: Patten in Annals, July, 1890.- b. It economizes party machinery: Bryce, 64, 65.- c. Local politics serve as a training school to develope party managers...
...standing army is immense but the fact must not be lost sight of that the keeping of this army exercises a good influence over all Italy. For the past one thousand years Italy has been divided into so many different states that today each district has its dialects, local feeling, etc. This commingling of young men fosters and encourages a national and patriotic feeling. The law of the army compels the soldiers to attend night schools and consequently at the expiration of their term of service the young men return no longer rude and illiterate to their native villages...
...this bill would be to secure justice to all. The debate for the negative was opened by F. B. Williams, L. S., who opposed the bill on the grounds that it is an attempt to transfer to the central government matters which he within the jurisdiction of the local authorities...
...present place was obtained, and the new club house built and fitted out last spring by special effort on the part of the club. Matches are shot with Yale every year; Harvard has won two out of the three that have thus far been contested. Other matches with local clubs are arranged throughout the year, besides the regular weekly, monthly and class matches. At the weekly matches first and second prizes of silver cups are given, and at the monthly match the Founders' cup is shot for and kept by the winner until the next match, and permanently...