This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...vote of the women really didn't make much difference. The method of voting at the polling places is much like that at the caucus. At each precinct there was a check list of legal voters and inspectors and clerks. The full Australian ballot system was in use at the election. Every official candidate's name was on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...vote of the women really didn't make much difference. The method of voting at the polling places is much like that at the caucus. At each precinct there was a check list of legal voters and inspectors and clerks. The full Australian ballot system was in use at the election. Every official candidate's name was on the ballot given to voters, and beyond the rail were six little booths so arranged that a man voting in one booth could not see his neighbor's ballot. The ballot contained the names of all the candidates, and the voter put a cross after the A Group Of Politicians name of the man for whom he wished to vote. In some places you can vote a "straight ticket" for all the candidates of one or another party by writing a cross in an upper circle, and in some places there are voting machines. The expenses of this election seemed to me to mean a good deal of money, but father says that in other cities it costs a good deal more than here, where things can be quite as bad as the man who sometimes fell through temptation. Just as soon as the mayor's speech was over, a great many office-seekers were standing in line to meet the new mayor, and he had to slip away from the City Hall, or he would have done nothing else the greater part of the day but talk with men who expected that, because they had voted for him, they were entitled to some appointment, whether they knew anything about the office and whether the man already in the position was doing his duty or not. The mayor's power to appoint officers is his greatest mark of authority; yet father thinks men dread this responsibility more than anything else. In some cities the mayor's power is so great that the appointment of officials is not even subject to ratification. As the executive of the city the m...
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