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Recently the election was held. Soldiers allegedly played a great part-with their bayonets and rifle butts. Government political agents advised the voters how to vote-for the Government. In Croatia, an unrecognized Peasants' Party voted for its candidates. Raditch and his friends were in jail, half the country was terrorized; yet, despite all this, the Government only increased its majority slightly, gaining some 30 seats and establishing a Government majority of about five over all parties of the Opposition...
...mails that were good salesmanship but doubtful ethics. He was sentenced to serve five years in prison and to pay a $1,000 fine. Last week, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction. But, when the time came for him to surrender himself and go to jail, he was not in Manhattan, the place where he was sentenced. The court forfeited his bail and issued a bench warrant for him. Mr. Garvey had not decamped, however ; he was merely late in making his jail appearance. Next day, coming into Manhattan on a train, he was arrested, although...
dangerous for a Republican to attack a Monarchist. It may land him in jail for a long period or cost him a lot of money in fines. A Monarchist, however, may attack a Republican with impunity or, at worst, get a few days' sentence with the option of a small fine. The reason for this state of affairs is that most of the legal luminaries are Monarchists, who held most of the good jobs in the Kaisers' days- a fact which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring...
...place in the last Fiskal week. Fisk students, either encouraged to action by the sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine...
...where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed to be female, but smelling dismally of alcohol, were carried in blankets from fraternity houses. "Liquor and women have become a craze." Crime increases; "the County jail would be filled twice a week if every offender were sent up." University officials denied that such revels ever occurred except possibly in vacation periods but agreed with Judge Stolen that dissolute students should suffer for their vices the severest penalty that the law allows...