The Forum, Volume 13Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach Forum Publishing Company, 1891 Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements. |
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... party's will at the polls . One of them was a leader in the disorders of " know - nothing " times ; another was presented for " stuffing " a ballot - box while serving as judge of elec- tion in 1875 ; a third ( of somewhat humbler ...
... party's will at the polls . One of them was a leader in the disorders of " know - nothing " times ; another was presented for " stuffing " a ballot - box while serving as judge of elec- tion in 1875 ; a third ( of somewhat humbler ...
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... party standing , shining lights , in fact , of the " Democratic Business Men's Association " ( an organization which had furnished the dominant party liberally with money and respectability in three hotly contested campaigns when both ...
... party standing , shining lights , in fact , of the " Democratic Business Men's Association " ( an organization which had furnished the dominant party liberally with money and respectability in three hotly contested campaigns when both ...
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... party in Baltimore ( at least for offices of any consequence ) are now nearly always unanimous ; like the French parliaments when the king addressed them from a lit de justice , the conventions are called not to frame decrees , but to ...
... party in Baltimore ( at least for offices of any consequence ) are now nearly always unanimous ; like the French parliaments when the king addressed them from a lit de justice , the conventions are called not to frame decrees , but to ...
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... party fealty and after- wards president of the State Convention of 1887 , as well as one of the leaders of the bar , said in a speech often quoted : " I tell you your political liberties are in danger . There is a clique who have seized ...
... party fealty and after- wards president of the State Convention of 1887 , as well as one of the leaders of the bar , said in a speech often quoted : " I tell you your political liberties are in danger . There is a clique who have seized ...
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... party lines , and by the use of the party machinery , was made eight years ago in the pri- 1 His complaints were probably in some measure unjust . It is generally be- lieved that Mr. Hodges was promised the governorship , but that the ...
... party lines , and by the use of the party machinery , was made eight years ago in the pri- 1 His complaints were probably in some measure unjust . It is generally be- lieved that Mr. Hodges was promised the governorship , but that the ...
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Page 356 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye nave respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place...
Page 712 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 547 - It shall be the duty of said board to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insolvency, the form of notarial certificates...
Page 80 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Page 547 - ... to ascertain the best means to effect an assimilation and uniformity in the laws of the states and especially whether it would be advisable for the State of New York to invite the other states of the Union to send representatives to a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several states.
Page 733 - Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows, — an individuality which can never express itself completely through any corporeal manifestation. The Self manifests through the organism; but there is always some part of the Self unmanifested ; and always, as it seems, some power of organic expression in abeyance or reserve.
Page 180 - No person shall be eligible to the Legislature who, at the time of his election, is, or within one hundred days previous thereto has been, a member of Congress, a civil or military officer under the United States, or an officer under any city government.
Page 407 - He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. Any intermediary between the people and their Government, or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen in the land, makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delusion and the pretended boon of American citizenship a shameless imposition.
Page 286 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.
Page 407 - Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government. But the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of misrule.