Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Party is only a year old. Yet at the first election, it elected a majority of members of the city council in East St. Louis, the second largest city in the state, and at the second election the Labor candidate for mayor in the same city was victorious. This vote will go to the Farmer-Labor Party in the coming election...
...citizens who vote the Socialist ticket," said Mr. Hale, "are only the Simon-pure Socialists. The Farmer-Labor Party makes its appeal to the laborers, the farmers, the small business men, the professional men. It is an American party, with American principles and ideals...
Later on in his speech he asserted that ignorant people were ready to accept the treaty while the Senate, well aware of the facts, prevented the acceptance. He then went on to say that the League provided for unequal voting powers since United States had only one vote and the other powers a total of eight. It must be ignorance and not a lack of intelligence, for Dr. Schurman is surely an intelligent man, that gave birth to such a statement, for the covenant definitely states that no act of the council shall be binding without an unanimous vote, that...
...yesterday's CRIMSON a wrong impression was given as to the substance of a part of Mr. Moors' speech at the Union. The quotation states: "Mr. Moors ended his talk by urging the members present to vote. . . for a government by parties." This is exactly the reverse of Mr. Moors' meaning. He clearly made a distinction between voting for an issue--namely the League of Nations, as opposed to victory for party for its own sake. He showed that the Republican party in this election cannot pledge itself firmly on the chief issue because the party is divided...
...that is made to becloud the one real issue of the campaign by personal and petty considerations, the fact remains that the thinking voter must choose between a League of Nations and the Republican party. Therefore it behooves those who-out vital and progressive issues above narrow partisanship to vote for Cox and Roosevelt. MALCOLM H. DILL, '20. CHARLES W. ELIOT 2D '20. GERALD MURPHY 2G.L.A. RUSSELL M. SANDERS 2G.B...