The chief defect of the American Presidential election is that as the old single vote method of election is employed it has to be fought on purely party lines.

It was here that he made a working model of his vote recorder, the first invention he ever patented.

John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible?

Thinking slaveholding to be sin, he goes on, year after year, appointing by his vote judges and marshals to aid in hunting up the fugitives, and seeing that they are delivered back to those who claim them!

Mr. Halliwell's note is, "vote-killing.

The venture proved the greatest of vote getters for the suffrage referendum.

The candidate was tired, very tired, and was trying to gain a few hours' rest before plunging again and for the last time into the whirlpool of vote-getting; and as he sat enjoying a few moments of blissful ease behind the close-drawn portieres of his library there came the much-dreaded sound of heavy feet upon the porch without, and the door-bell rang.

My gracious Sovereign would my vote implore: I owe him much, but owe my conscience more.

He was votes incarnatemillions of votes.

An' he seen to it dat a lot o' de white democratic men got he'p from votin' an' a lot o' Niggers step up an' vote lak he tol' 'em (dey were scared not to).

Said he: "With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers."

What vocation have the Tite Barnacles, red-tapists, vote-mongers, of Downing Street to discriminate and determine this supreme poetical excellence, in regard to which the nicest critics, or the most refined and appreciative reading public may reasonably differ among themselves as widely as the stars?

And now in the great crisis, with the Giants broken but not beaten, this vote-monster talked.

The vote-receivers will write the question and place it upon the boxes.

It is a painful duty to add, that their fellow-members from Ireland did not, on this great occasion, follow their good example; for eleven only of those, on whose votes reliance had been placed, opposed the Government, while no less than twenty-seven gave them support.

To make the ultimate vote secret, gives therefore thought its best chance, and at least requires the canvasser to produce in the voter a belief which, however shadowy, shall be genuine, rather than to secure by the mere manipulation of momentary impulse a promise which is shamefacedly carried out in public because it is a promise.

A simple majority vote secures conviction, and then it is left for the House of Commons to say whether judgment shall be pronounced or not.

It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote splitting or any indication of shades of opinion.

But the multiplicity of ordinal preferences, second, third, fourth, fifth, up to tenth, which the single transferable vote system would involve, will require a more scientific handling in party interests, and neither party will be able to face an election with any hope of success without the assistance of the most drastic form of caucus and without its orders being carried out by the electors.

When, under this arrangement, the voters assemble in different parts of the community, they could not listen to financial reports and vote taxes, as they do in the town and the village.

or 'Do ye vote unionist?'

The eleven members retired from the House, the Commons passed a vote approving of the proceedings of the army, and commissioners were appointed.

Thus the trade union on the one hand, offering to the working-woman protection in the earning of her living, links up her interests with those of her working brother; while on the other hand, in the demand for the vote women of all classes are recognizing common disabilities, a common sisterhood and a common hope.

Of 303 electoral votes cast, Lincoln received 180; Breckinridge, 72; Bell, 39; and Douglas, 12.

" "Is it vote chaper they would, the haythen naygurs, than daycint, hardworkin' white min?"