Excerpt from The Machine Abolished: And the People Restored to PowerMV dear sir As the Democratic Mayor of the City of Oswego elected in 1892 and in 1893, I became well informed in regard to the sentiments of the voters of that city concerning the non-partisan or town-meeting system of elections devised by you, and urged upon the State Legislature in the sessions of 1893 and 1894, and which I myself was heartily in favor oi. The measure was he...
Excerpt from Commonwealth ReconstructedThe justice of my representation will be the more readily disputed because there seems, just now, to be a lull in the storm of our political af¿ictions, which sanguine and superficial observers readily take for a lasting change in the weather. But, while I am ready to believe that the public business is more honestly conducted to-day in the majority of our capitols and city halls than it was in 1870, I ca...
Excerpt from The Machine Abolished: And the People Restored to PowerMV dear sir As the Democratic Mayor of the City of Oswego elected in 1892 and in 1893, I became well informed in regard to the sentiments of the voters of that city concerning the non-partisan or town-meeting system of elections devised by you, and urged upon the State Legislature in the sessions of 1893 and 1894, and which I myself was heartily in favor oi. The measure was he...
Excerpt from Commonwealth ReconstructedThe justice of my representation will be the more readily disputed because there seems, just now, to be a lull in the storm of our political af¿ictions, which sanguine and superficial observers readily take for a lasting change in the weather. But, while I am ready to believe that the public business is more honestly conducted to-day in the majority of our capitols and city halls than it was in 1870, I ca...
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