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...Washington, D. C., a lawyer has started a National Get-Out-the-Vote Club. It is to be a non-partisan body, whose pure purpose will be to get qualified voters to vote. Simon Michelet, the founder, points out that, in the last Presidential election, for every 100 votes cast there were 194 people of voting age qualified to cast votes. He asserted that the voteless voters have increased in recent years and presented figures to show that of all qualified voters 80% cast ballots in 1896, 73% in 1900, 66% in 1908, 62% in 1912, and that...
Largely on account of it, he was able to secure the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1922. In the election, he was supported by the Non-Partisan League, the New Progressive Party, the Committee of 48, as well as his Democratic following. That election was gobbled up by the Republicans. They swept out of office Senator Hitchcock and generally carried the State by about 30,000 votes. There was one exception-the Governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan received 82 per cent of the total vote, was elected with a majority...
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Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of the college division of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, announced last night the winners of the association's Prize Essay contest, which was open to all students of American colleges. The subject of the essay was "Why the United States Should Join the League of Nations...