Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...soon behold the unusual spectacle of an election which has not been made a mockery by previous coalitions or distribution of offices. Under the old system the offices were regarded as the just reward of any artifice or violence, by which one or two elements of the class could overreach the others and secure for a part the privilege of choosing representatives for the whole. Now, however, the societies, which, as already organized bodies, have hitherto found it very easy and profitable to form coalitions, have voted in favor of a bona fide open election, - to throw open...