Word: voting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have graduated from a training in practical politics, they are to be defeated only by men who have also had such a training. Young men, therefore, who desire to go into politics should begin by doing even such work as checking the lists of men who register to vote and seeing that men register who might not otherwise have done so. After making sure that all men of the party have registered, there remains the task of presenting the party's case. Although the work of speaking on street corners to floating crowds is hard, it is interesting...
...unwillingness not to accept office, but to accept these conditions. And many men in the reaction against these conditions, are led to the other extreme. They believe that good men should hold the balance of power and compel the political parties to compete for their support. This independent vote, however, is not often large enough to carry an election, and is almost never able to carry two in succession. Even rarer is the chance of an independent candidate to gain an election independent of all party, for non-partisan government does not work in this country, it being...
...names of the men elected to the Senior committees yesterday are included in the complete list of Class Day officers in the adjoining column; below is a list of the number of votes cast for each candidate. The vote for chairman is recorded only in the cases of the three men elected to each committee. Only 253 members of the class voted. CLASS COMMITTEE. F. D. Roosevelt, 168 87 R. R. Alexander, 169 83 A. Goodhue, 132 17 R. F. Manning, 110 R. M. Bleakie, 94 L. Brown, 81 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE. E. B. Krumbhaar, 155 66 P. Dana...
...first debate of the interclass series, the Seniors last evening defeated the Juniors. The question was: "Resolved, That the following form of closure should be adopted by the Senate; (a) a motion shall be in order at any time, setting a time for voting on a bill, which motion shall be decided by a two thirds vote without debate; (b) the time for the vote shall be extended, if necessary, to allow every opponent of the bill, so desiring, to have an hour in which to state his objections to the bill...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for each committee, indicating his preference for Chairman. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each committee shall be declared elected. Of these three elected, that one receiving the highest number of votes for Chairman shall be the Chairman of the Committee...