Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...promotes fraud by giving unlimited power to a partisan and possibly dishonest speaker. Nation...
...Efficient municipal aid is (1) impracticable, because (a) manual labor only can be furnished, for which the majority of the unemployed are unqualified. (2) It is inadvisable, because (a) it furnishes too great an opportunity to officials to distribute aid for partisan purposes. (b) It weakens the beneficial offects of private charity...
...Cleveland should have obtained reliable information. But, (a) Blount, the commissioner sent for this purpose, proved a prejudiced partisan. (1) Evidence taken in secret. (2) Most of testimony royalist. (3) Important witnesses rejected. (4) Evidence favorable to revolutionists suppressed. (b) Blount's report essentially false. (1) Contradicted by Stevens and Thurston. (2) Their testimony corroborated by reputable eye-witnesses...
...There are political objections to such a measure. (a) It would be a partisan measure. Harper's Weekly, Aug. 30, '90. (b) It would create a large amount of federal patronage. Am. Commonwealth...
...abolition is not demanded by the people. - The general Court rejected the amendment to abolish it. - (b) The present demand is purely partisan...