Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, Conservative Baldwin tried to give the impression that a vote for the Liberals is indirectly a vote for the Laborites, Socialists, "Reds." In the great days when Gladstone was the pillar of Liberalism such an imputation would have been merely absurd; but today the Liberal Party is led and dominated by mercurial David Lloyd George, and should the 'balance of power' ever come into his hands again he is only too likely to side with the Laborites...
Despite this shrewd secrecy, on the part of General McCoy, a story spread like wildfire among ignorant Nicaraguan natives that those who do not vote for the Conservative candidate (supposed to be favored by President Coolidge) will find themselves poisoned by the stain...
Many a Presbyterian, profoundly aware of the existence of Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin among their fellowship, waited his word. Would his silence have the effect of committing the entire church "to work, and pray and vote for . . . Hoover." Last week Dr. Coffin wrote a letter to the New York Times. Brief, compact, it follows...
...minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding the sobriety of the nation. But he usurps an authority never accorded him when he uses his high office to tell the members of the Church for whom they should vote...
...Many of them will not agree with the Moderator as to the chief issues in this campaign. They may feel constrained to support Mr. Norman Thomas* as a protest against much that is sub-Christian in the platforms of both of the large parties. Or they may decide to vote for Governor Smith because they sincerely believe that prohibition does not really secure the maximum of temperance or for some other of his policies...