The General Election of December, 1918, which followed the dissolution of the longest Parliament since the days of Charles II., was a striking, if temporary proof, of the persistence of the rationing principle.

How was it known that Jefferson's election was the wish of the voters?

The election becomes the business of a few, of a single party, of a special interest, which should, in fact, be neutralized.

Alike in the whole Confederation and in the single Canton, re-election is the rule; the rejection of the outgoing magistrate is the rare exception.

Election of 1876.The Republican candidate was Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio.

" "The election is the eighteenth," Frederic laughed, executing a war dance on the platform.

But the General Election will. MORLEY.

*** We hope that the proposed revival by a well-known theatre manager of The Sins of David so shortly after the General Election is not the work of a defeated Candidate.

An election, the reformers point out, is not the simple matter it appears to be at the first blush.

Election of Roosevelt.%There were almost as many parties as ever in the campaign of 1904.

The election for Ayrshire, my own county, was this spring tried upon a petition, before a Committee of the House of Commons.

" As there was no other candidate, it was resolved, at the same time, that the election of the sixteenth was a void election.

Grover Cleveland reëlected.%The election was a complete triumph for the Democratic party.

The parties which support these candidates, however, all agree in affirming that the election of its special favorite is the one thing that can give back peace to the distracted country.

It is the method of Spanish America where it is applied more frankly and logically, and where still, in many places, elections are a military affair, the questions at issue being settled by killing and being killed, instead of by the cowardly, pacifist methods current in Europe.

G.A. Steevens says an election is "madman's holiday;" but in the last Quarterly Review we find the following ludicrous supplemental illustration.

Dear Chrysanthus, your election Was to me both loss and gain, Gave me pleasure, gave me pain: It seemed plain to my affection (Being in love)

Election of 1840.General William Henry Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

"If it were just cause of offence, that men should estimate differently the merits of opposing candidates, popular elections would be the greatest curse that could be inflicted upon a people.

We believe that this election is a turning-point in our history; for, although there are four candidates, there are really, as everybody knows, but two parties, and a single question that divides them.

The late presidential election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the opposite idea that slavery is right in the abstract, the workings of which as a central idea may be the perpetuity of human slavery and its extension to all countries and colors.

Sulpicius may have thought Marius quite fit for the command, and was warranted in thinking so by the events of the Social War; but there is no more ground for supposing that the election of Marius was his primary object than for considering Plutarch's diatribe a fair estimate of his character.

These spring elections are perfectahGehenna for a candidate if it happens to be an early spring like this.

The Election of 1868.%The questions discussed above (pp. 437-439) became the political issues of 1868.

Elections, law-making, and getting and holding office, have become an obsession and they shadow our days.