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...memory augurs them no good. Citing the impossibility of a candidate to break through the powerful machine which held Springfield in its grip during the last election, he attacked the pre-primary elections as an evil to be removed. All candidates should be allowed to be on the ballot election day. Among the other reforms which he has advocated is the bi-annual session of the legislature...
There was a total of 665 ballots cast this year, of which ten were discarded for not having been properly filled out. This number is almost 70 per cent of the Freshman Class and is the largest ballot cast by them in the past few years...
...quietly in my district here . . . and allow my fellow countrymen who stand for the law ... to witness a man going with dripping fingers to the ballot box. The registration and voting of people who are not naturalized citizens is a crime. ... I am informed the names of such persons will be presented to you. ... If a man casts a dishonest ballot he cocks and fires a gun at the heart of America. Whether a bribe is given or taken in a Congressional election, it is a violation of the laws of the U. S. I am informed violations of this...
...surrender the ballot boxes to thugs, gangsters and plug-uglies who patrol the streets with machine guns. We can't stand for that any longer. Reach for all-even if you find them in high authority. Move on them. My information is that the population of Kansas City is less than 400,000. The last registration was something like 270,000. ... A registration like that would call for a population something like...
...passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since 1907, who has been twelve times Speaker of the Diet and who since last October has been Premier, was elected President. Significance: no Finnish political change...