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Consequently, when that very able and successful man of business Mr George Rushton was put up for election to the Council he was returned by a large majority of the votes of the working men who thought him an ideal personage... These Brigands did just as they pleased. No one ever interfered with them. They never consulted the ratepayers in any way.
An old lawyer, who had much experience in making wills, told me, that after people had deliberated long, and thought of many for their executors, they settled at last by fixing on their relations. This shews the universality of the principle. I regretted the decay of respect for men of family, and that a Nabob now would carry an election from them.
In order to prevent what might seem to be an unfair submission of the Amendment, Mr. Dixon of Connecticut proposed that it should be referred to conventions in the respective States instead of to the Legislatures, and thus give the people, in the election of members of the conventions, a full opportunity to pass upon the merits of the question.
Slumkey could not have achieved more popularity by his performances in that line than I, by this exhibition of feeling; and had the question been my election, I am very sure nobody else would have had a chance of a vote through the island.
The most complete account of the historical development of the power of the president is in Edward Stanwood, History of the Presidency, II , Chap. V. The fullest account of the movement for popular election of senators is G.H. Haynes, The Election of Senators . The initiative, referendum and recall have given rise to a literature of their own.
It was real purity of election; not one shilling was to be spent or given away, every one was to do his best, and to pay his own share of any little expense they were at; and so well understood was it, that it was an election of principle, that scarcely ten persons ever asked for any thing; not even so much as a draught of porter was ever given away to a voter or any one else.
"This right to determine who should enter such so called election precincts, appears from the record to have been exercised as against all classes; merchants, tradesmen or what not, and whether the business of such person was public or private.
And if in some of those firste Emperoures, of those after, whom helde the Empire with reputacion, as Adriane, Marcus, Severus, and soche like, there had been so moche foresight, that thei had brought this custome of chaungyng the capitaines in thesame Empire, without doubte it should have made theim more quiete, and more durable: For that the Capitaines should have had lesse occasion to make tumultes, the Emperours lesse cause to feare, and the senate in the lackes of the successions, should have had in the election of the Emperour, more aucthoritie, and by consequence should have been better: but the naughtie custome, either for ignoraunce, or through the little diligence of menne, neither for the wicked, nor good ensamples, can be taken awaie.
"Sir EDWARD W. WATKIN, M.P., Kt., London." "London, "Westminster Palace Hotel, "20th November, 1868. "My dear Sir Edward, "You cannot conceive how sorrowful I feel that the result of the election in Stockport was adverse to you. I was watching the incidents and proceedings connected with that election with such an interest and with such sure hope that you would be successful.
Urban, although deserted by his cardinals, had no intention of yielding and proceeded to create twenty-eight new cardinals. This double election was the beginning of the Great Schism, which was to last for forty years and expose the papacy to new attacks on every side.
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