Word: voter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present. The new plan is the outcome of a feeling that the choice of managers should be based upon a uniform system rather than that the authorities in each sport should select new assistants with no check except the nominal requirement of approval by the Athletic Committee. The voters cannot all be expected to know the candidates personally, nor are they always fitted to judge of the executive ability of the men proposed. They should not, however, feel that this excuses them from attendance at the elections. They will in general be guided by the judgment of the manager...
Spoliation of offices was commonly accepted throughout the higher departments of the government. Fidelity and integrity of service did not insure promotion, and the very character of the country became demoralized. Those who contributed to the campaigns received legislative favors; the body politic was threatened and the voter scarcely realized that the power of nominating his candidate had been taken from him and transferred to a machine which turned out officials by clock work...
...methods which the class should effectively condemn. Every man in the class, therefore, should go to the polls to vote for the man whom he honestly believes best fitted for the office for which he is nominated, and thus defeat the underhanded electioneering methods which have been practiced. VOTER...
...Each voter, on stating his name and address will receive a ballot to be marked and returned folded, to the watchers, who will drop it into the ballot box in the voter's presence. Ballots should not be signed, and conversation on the subject of the election should not be carried on in the polling place. Ballots not properly marked will not be counted...
...York, New Haven and Hart-ford Railroad has offered half fare rates to men going home to register and vote in New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The voter applying for such rates must present at the ticket office of the company a certificate signed by the chairman of the Republican committee in the county in which he intends to vote. Men living in the above mentioned States, but beyond or not on the lines of the New York, New Harven and Hartford Railroad will receive half-rates as for as that rail-road extends...