Proceedings of the conference for good city government and the annual meeting of the national municipal league

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1905
 

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Página 187 - Towering over Presidents and State governors, over Congress and State legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it.
Página 214 - The said superintendent and every such examiner shall have power to administer an oath to any person whose testimony may be required on any such examination, and to compel the appearance and attendance of any such person for the purpose of...
Página 331 - A petition signed by electors entitled to vote for a successor of the incumbent sought to be removed, equal in number to at least twelve per cent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding election for all candidates for the office...
Página 213 - ... in accordance with forms and methods prescribed by him, which shall be applicable to all cities within the state. Such reports shall be printed as a part of the public documents of the state, and submitted by the * to the legislature at its regular session next succeeding the making of such report.
Página 314 - primary election," as used in this act, shall be construed so as to embrace all elections held by any political party, convention, organization or association, or delegates therefrom, for the purpose of choosing candidates for office or the election of delegates to other conventions, or for the purpose of electing officers of any political party, organization, convention or association.
Página 324 - Second. For the nomination of all candidates* for public office to be voted for at the ensuing election who by rule adopted by a party . . . are to be nominated at a primary and not at a convention. "Third. For the election of all committeemen, who are to be chosen at a primary election and not at a convention.
Página 316 - A convention or primary meeting within the meaning of this act is an organized assemblage of voters or delegates representing a political party which, at the last election before the holding of such convention or primary meeting, polled at least one per centum of the entire vote cast in the state, county, or other division or district for which the nomination is made.
Página 318 - Nominations to elective public office are classified as "independent" and "party" nominations. A "party" nomination is one "made by a convention or primary or by a duly authorized committee of such convention or primary, of any political party or other nominating body which at the last general election before the holding of such convention or primary polled ten thousand votes in the state, or one per cent of the entire vote cast in the district thereof for which said convention or primary is held."...
Página 330 - ... at said primary election, or shall knowingly make any false count, canvass, statement, certificate or return of the ballots cast or vote taken at said primary election, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Página 214 - and every such examiner appointed by him, shall have power to administer an oath to any person whose testimony may be required on any such examination, and to compel the appearance and attendance of any such person for the purpose of any such examination, and the production of books and papers. A report of each such examination shall be made, and shall be a matter of public record in the office of said ". j.

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