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... remedy for the evils which I had already tried to describe . It has been suggested that in reprinting these papers I should also present a draft of a bill embody . ing the general suggestions contained in the English law , and adapting ...
... remedy for the evils which I had already tried to describe . It has been suggested that in reprinting these papers I should also present a draft of a bill embody . ing the general suggestions contained in the English law , and adapting ...
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... remedy is for the people to at- tend the primaries . Now of these latter there are three classes : the Republican , where the voting is done by Assembly Districts and from the rolls of the district organization ; the Tammany , where it ...
... remedy is for the people to at- tend the primaries . Now of these latter there are three classes : the Republican , where the voting is done by Assembly Districts and from the rolls of the district organization ; the Tammany , where it ...
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... which , in a word , amounts to a mo- nopoly in the hands of the leaders of the Machines , not only of the power of nomination , but of the elective franchise itself . CHAPTER IV . THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . THE 64 MACHINE POLITICS .
... which , in a word , amounts to a mo- nopoly in the hands of the leaders of the Machines , not only of the power of nomination , but of the elective franchise itself . CHAPTER IV . THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . THE 64 MACHINE POLITICS .
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William Mills Ivins. CHAPTER IV . THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . THE system of heavy political assessments , and of the employment of large numbers of paid work- ers at the polls , is of comparatively recent growth . It was between 1860 and ...
William Mills Ivins. CHAPTER IV . THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . THE system of heavy political assessments , and of the employment of large numbers of paid work- ers at the polls , is of comparatively recent growth . It was between 1860 and ...
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... his party to levy , and its candidates to pay , large assessments , and the organization then as- sumed the entire responsibility for the result . This was at the time a decided improvement over the THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . 67.
... his party to levy , and its candidates to pay , large assessments , and the organization then as- sumed the entire responsibility for the result . This was at the time a decided improvement over the THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY . 67.
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Page 98 - ... to give or lend, or shall offer, promise, or promise to procure, or to endeavour to procure any money or valuable consideration, to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter or to or for any other person, in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid, on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election; 2.
Page 98 - ... 3. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, make any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve in Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 4.
Page 102 - ... for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a Candidate...
Page 98 - ... any voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid on account of any voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election...
Page 99 - Election: 5. Every Person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any Money to or to the Use of any other Person with the Intent that such Money or any Part thereof shall be expended in Bribery at any Election...
Page 98 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, give, lend, or agree to give or lend, or shall offer, promise, or promise to procure or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable consideration, to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting...
Page 92 - Form of Directions for the Guidance of the Voter in voting, which shall be printed in conspicuous Characters, and placarded outside every Polling Station and in every Compartment of every Polling Station* The voter may vote for...
Page 99 - Behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any Money, Gift, Loan, or valuable Consideration, Office, Place or Employment, for himself or for any other Person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any Election : 2.
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