Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most urgent reforms is the ballot reform. An Australian ballot system has been adopted in a number of states, and will undoubtedly spread rapidly over the whole union. But will this Australian system do away with bribery? The experience of Australia and England tends to prove the contrary. Closely connected to a ballot reform is a much needed reform in the registration. In most states the registration laws are extremely lax; the registration lists are changed very rarely, and the result is that men who are dead or have changed their residence, shall figure on the old lists. This naturally...
...deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...have one side of the field instead of an end. But this would be manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred and sixty men. Seven hundred and twenty men, therefore, would be disappointed in their seats-a sacrifice which the men who are going in coaches ought not to expect. In behalf, then...
There are 293 students at St. Paul's school this year, a slight increase in number over that of last year...
...LOWELL.A limited number of settee seats will be placed on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's on Wednesday at 8 a. m. The settees will be just behind the ropes and as they are the best seats in the field a charge of 75 cents will be made for them. Absolutely no tickets will be exchanged for them...