Word: locally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Popular elections would improve state and local governments: - (a) Local elections are influenced by national issues, as shown by. - (1) Lincoln - Douglas campaign: - (2) Philadelphia ring: Bryce, II. 367 - 384. (b) The present method facilitates bribery; e. g. California, Nevada, Colorado...
...based on an acknowledgement of errors in the past. The Irish are now struggling for a federal government. Federalism has enabled statesmen to create out of conflicting elements, a nation with a central government to deal with common concerns, while under it each little state manages its own local affairs...
...officers still hope that there are new men in college who can shoot, and will enter their names with the others. Practice shoots will come off this fall twice each week, while last year only one a week was held, and in addition, matches will be held with local clubs, such as the Boston Shooting Club and the Cambridge Shooting Club. This is a new feature in the year-yearly arrangements and will add great interest to the work of the club. With this greater amount of interest among candidates and the excellent arrangements made for practice this fall...
...National quarantine act unnecessary, because - (a) Local quarantines have been efficient. (1) New York regulations are perfect. (2) So also in Boston. (b) Local equipments ample: (1) at New York. (2) at Boston. (3) at Norfolk. (4) at New Orleans. (5) at Charleston. Am. Pub. Health...
...National quarantine impracticable: - (a) Different sanitary condition of the several ports render uniform action impossible. (b) Local authorities more alert and efficient. (c) Division of authority between Nat'l and local boards would produce inefficiency: Ibid. (d) Local jealousies would be aroused. (e) Local regulations more elastic: e.g. action of N. Y. and Boston in Sept. 1892. (f) Mismanagement in one port less harmful than mismanagement in all. (g) Nat'l quarantine more expensive, because, organization must be permanent and universal to be effective...