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...National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee, a subcommittee of the Executive Council, issued its report, of which the following are the salient points...
...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...
...jacket of this book* says it is "a candid and impartial account of the real facts of the Near East situation of today." The content of the book shows it to be one of the most glaring of all partisan books that have ever been printed on the Near East tangle...
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...
...Roberts is a Bolshevikophobe. That is to say, he hates Bolshevism, which is not surprising. He likes the clean-cut, antibureaucratic efficiency of Fascismo. The prejudices are based not upon concrete reasoning but upon temperamental predilections. The sober, nude, crude truth is that a partisan book cannot maintain itself on nebulous foundations of sentiment. Because the author has tried to do this, his book has fallen short of being first-class...