Word: stated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Introduction.The proposed amendments provide that the governor and other state officers and the members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, who are now elected annually, shall be elected for a term of two years, beginning with the election of 1898, i. e., at the same time as the election of Congressmen...
...objections to annual elections, viz.: expense and trouble, are without weight. (A) Expense is very slight. (1) Only four cents per capita spent by the state on its an ual election. (G) Bradford's speech of Oct. 13, 1896). (B) Trouble is wisely taken (E. E. Hale's Speech at Faneuil Hall, Oct. 23, 1896) Government by the people is founded upon trouble for the people. (a) Educational influence is great. (x) Keeps state issues before the public. (y) "Political judgment grows by exercise." Bridgeman...
...will weaken local self-government. (1) Will lessen the power of the people. (a) They can rebuke representatives only half as often. (2) Politicians will look upon Massachusetts politics solely from the the point of view of national party supremacy. (Speech of E. E. Hale, Oct. 23, 1896). (a) State elections are thus made subordinate to national. (x) Elections will be on national issues. (y) Offices will be filled with reference to national politics: Examples, Governor Powers, notorious for his acquirement of State lands for a nominal sum, owes his election to national issues; In 1888 in N. Y. Republicans...
Professor Davis has been invited by the board of regents of the New York State University to prepare for publication and distribution in the public schools of that state a pamphlet similar to that prepared for Connecticut, as an aid to the more interesting and profitable study of geography...
WANTED.- Second hand wheel. State particulars and price...