Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right to own and manage her own property, to retain her earnings and protect and safeguard her rights by the vote and otherwise has now become an accepted fact...
...intend to vote for Mr. Hoover, although I disagree with his views about Prohibition. I think the country will come to a more intelligent way of dealing with that subject than is contained in the present laws, but that will probably be a slow process, and in the meantime the hard task of carrying on our free government with all its many difficulties and dangers must be performed by us. We need the very best man possible to be the head of that business...
...Hoover knows what ought to be done as well as Governor Smith, but he has not had opportunity to demonstrate his political capacity to get it done. Governor Smith has made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much...
...many conflicting reports reached the Smith special on its way East that only the Cause could be kept clearly in mind. The cause was: to win the progressive vote that LaFollette got in 1924. The effect that the Nominee had made in Middle America was inscrutably scrambled...
...series of articles dealing with the laws in force in the various states in regard to the absentee voter. Inspection of these laws shows that in spite of more liberal emendations of the last few years most states still disqualify those citizens who can neither register nor vote in their home district. Since for the college student both of these occasions usually come at times that make it impossible for him to fulfil this requirement, his chances of exercising his electoral rights are small if he comes from a far-distant state. The results are peculiarly unfortunate both...