Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resignation of J. M. Manly from the board of Memorial directors leaves a vacancy which will be filled by vote of the graduates on Thursday. Nominations must be handed to the auditor by Wednesday noon...
...Healey '91 opened the debate on the affirmative. He said that the question could not be considered on political grounds but only on grounds of expediency. He declared the poll tax as a requisite for voting to be a refic of the old feudal system and said that it had been abolished in almost all the European countries and by 37 out of the 44 states of the Union. He cited the opinions of the leading men in both the great political parties in favor of the affirmative and closed by showing that the poll tax as a requirement...
...Hayes '91 opened the debate on the negative. He said that it is not merely voters that are wanted but men who can think and vote on sound principles. He gave statistics to show the great falling off of the vote in Massachusetts in the years immediately following presidential elections, and concluded that the abolition of the poll tax as a requisite for voting would greatly increase this lack of interest. The poll tax should be retained until the people of Massachusetts have attained a higher degree of economic knowledge...
...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...
...debate was summed up for the negative by A. S. Hayes, '91, and for the affirmative by S. C. Brackett, '91, The vote on the merits of the question was 12 for the affirmative and 8 for the negative. On the merits of the principal disputants 21 for the negative and 4 for the affirmative...