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The answer to this argument is, that the actual slaveholders were few in number compared with the whole people; comprising probably not more than one-eighth or one-sixth of the voters, and one-fortieth or one-thirtieth of the whole population.
Lilian, after waiting for a further declaration from Glazzard, which did not come, said, in her soft tones: "You express yourself so vehemently, Denzil." "Why not? These are obvious truths. Of course I could speak just as strongly on the Conservative side with regard to many things. I can't say that I have much faith in the capacity or honesty of the mass of Radical voters.
A mere majority of the qualified voters might demand and secure the enactment of laws which would virtually amend the constitution.
That men should work together for the good of all is very beautiful, and I believe the day will come when these things will be, but the simple process of fifty-one per cent of the voters casting ballots for socialism will not bring it about. The matter of voting is simply the expression of a sentiment, and after the ballots have been counted there still remains the work to be done.
There is usually a good demand for what we have reprinted, particularly since we can advertise it in the Journal. The Journal has, accordingly, printed the following which appeared first in its columns: In addition to these, the Journal printed in 1915 200,000 postal cards on good stock with colored ink, especially calculated to win voters.
Who is a better judge of the Democracy of a man who offers his vote than the leader of the district? Who is better equipped to keep out undesirable voters? The men who put through the primary law are the same crowd that stand for the civil service blight and they have the same objects in view the destruction of governments by party, the downfall of the constitution and hell generally.
The tendency was to diminish the power of the legislature by including in the constitution itself much that might have taken the form of ordinary statutory legislation, as well as by requiring that some of the more important acts passed by the legislature should receive the direct assent of the voters. This merely gave to the people a partial negative.
I do not in the least believe that any of the votes for which universal suffrage is blamed the re-establishment of the Empire, for instance would have fallen out differently had the voters been exclusively recruited among learned and liberally educated men.
Facts in support of Sudbury or Ipswich are quoted not only from the story itself, which is wild and wandering enough, but even from the yet wilder narratives which incidentally occur in the story, such as Sam Weller's description of how his father, on the way to Eatanswill, tipped all the voters into the canal. Pickwick.
To compensate themselves for this forbearance, however, it was suggested that the colored voters of Red Wing and vicinity should meet at the church on the morning of election and march in a body to the polls with music and banners, in order most appropriately and significantly to commemorate their first exercise of the electoral privilege.
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