Word: voting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clearly understood that we neither desire nor expect to vote for senators or members of the House of Representatives; they are the representatives of the people of Massachusetts. But the privilege of voting for the president is a thing so vital to all of us who are devoted to the higher interest of the nation and eager to play an honorable part in the great experiment of democratic government upon this continent that it appears more than probable that, with sufficient energy and able leadership, the legislature of Massachusetts will be prevailed upon to act favorably on a petition...
Whether we wish to vote for the President on November 7 or for ex-Justice Hughes is a problem for our private judgment; we shall act according to our lights and not, we hope, according to our traditional or unexamined predilections. But whatever be our political opinions, there is one point on which as thinking and loyal citizens we can enthusiastically unite. It is in an attempt to secure the privilege for ourselves and future generations of college students of voting in presidential elections, without regard to the invidious question of whether or not we are entirely self-supporting...
...University, and with all interested and patriotic members of the University, to petition the Massachusetts legislature to permit all citizens of the United States who have lived in Massachusetts for six months or a year, and who are legally eligible and registered voters of any state, to vote in Massachusetts for the president of the United States. Fraud could not possibly result from the passage of so wise and liberal a measure because the election of the president occurs simultaneously throughout the Union, and a man could not very well be in two states on the same day. In addition...
...CRIMSON has leased a special wire to receive returns of the presidential vote on November 7, the day of election. As fast as returns come in, results will be posted on the bulletin board outside the CRIMSON Building...
...says first: "The overwhelming majority of our straw votes for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes." It is to be presumed that he means straw votes in other colleges and in reply I can only say that the straw vote in every college I have heard of so far this year has resulted in a substantial victory for Hughes. These facts are easily verified...